Discussing meds with our clinician at a checkup we were told that generic drugs can vary plus or minus 20% in their makeup compared to the name brand.
That is a 40% difference!
Not a big deal, necessarily, with some medications, but...........
Needless to say, I was quite shocked.
We have been advised to start saving our prescription bottles. When they are completed, writing on them about how that "month" went while taking that bottle of medicine.
Formulas differ from company to company. (The pharmaceutical company is listed on the prescription label.) Pharmacies often choose the company offering the best deal at the time when they purchase their stock. So there is no guarantee a maintenace dosage will be the same from month to month!
No matter how many times doctors and pharmacists have tried to reassure me generic is no different than name brand, I have not agreed. I realize we are talking about milligrams and micrograms and 20% may not seem like a lot when calculated. But when the dosage is 12.5 milligrams, we are talking about super small dosages. Basically, a little bit goes a looooong way! In this case, a teeny tiny little bit goes a long way! 10 mg, is not enough and 15 mg is too much.
AIY!
And now it is all beginning to make more sense....
1 comment:
Glad you figured that out!!!!
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