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generic tegretol after taking brand for a million years
Tue, 07/25/2006 - 21:47Topic: Medication Issues
Hi everybody,
I was a facilitator in philadelpohia for many years
helping people cope with this. Also on the board
of directors years ago. I ant to switch from
brand tegretol to generic because the cost is getting out of hand. Aren`t there many fillers in generic?
michelef
Comments
Re: Re: generic tegretol after taking brand for a million years
Submitted by solis on Fri, 2006-07-28 - 15:26
Generally, if you began on a the generic version of an AED med, you are fine.
But if you began with the name brand version, switiching to generics is a huge risk.
I've done it (bought the generic version of a med when it came out) and, the generic was like a completely new med and caused an immediate negative reaction.
Here is some info from epilepsy.com http://www.epilepsy.com/epilepsy/medicine_cost.htmltwice
Hope that helps
~sol
Re: generic tegretol after taking brand for a million years
Submitted by angel_lts on Wed, 2006-07-26 - 09:34
Hi Michelef In phila huh? I used to go to see my doc at JEFF. I also had my brain surgery at Jeff and Graduate(not there anymore). Many of the drugs can be different and have different ingredients. SO you do have to ask your doctor if they are basicly the same or not, before you change your meds around. take care Lisa http://health.groups.yahoo.com/group/epilepsyapproach/