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Comment on Teva Pharmaceuticals and Poor Quality Generic Drugs by Yanalynn

Yanalynn — Fri, 01 Mar 2013 22:38:02 +0000

I got generic remeron (mirtazapine) from Teva recently due to the cost of name brand with my new insurance. It doesn’t work. It takes forever for me to go to sleep, and I wake up a couple of hours early. I felt awful. I am going to call the FDA, and call Teva. I am exhausted. Fortunately, I had several weeks supply of Remeron and started alternating days, and that got me through a month until I could refill. So I have to spend $136 versus $12 a month because this company is allowed to sell a product that doesn’t work? This is just not okay.

Comment on Teva Pharmaceuticals and Poor Quality Generic Drugs by jillian

jillian — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 01:32:01 +0000

Teva manufactures products that do not work and we pay for it! I was prescribed my usual 30mg adderall, and I always use Sandoz however this time I regretfully didn’t check my script and was sadly dispensed Barr/Teva. I took them for 2 days praying they would somehow be different this time and they weren’t; they didn’t do anything! The product made me nauseas, and extremely tired. The next morning I woke up and drank 2 glasses of water, and magically I was not sick anymore.
Thank God I got Sandoz again and my brain is back in order!
It’s sad that they are allowed to sell, and monopolize the so called “free market,” when in fact we all know it’s a bunch of bull-shit!
I have written the FDA to complain. I can only pray others do.

Comment on Teva Pharmaceuticals and Poor Quality Generic Drugs by Joan Hogan

Joan Hogan — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 15:53:18 +0000

Teva Pharmaceuticals should be shut down for good ! The Public Is @ risk from this company making poor quality meds, not the proper strength, and endangering people’s lives.

Comment on Teva Pharmaceuticals and Poor Quality Generic Drugs by poisoned by generics

poisoned by generics — Mon, 31 Dec 2012 23:50:51 +0000

About six months or sd ago I started to notice I was getting slightly ill from my medications, I didn’t know which one, it has finally been narrowed down to the generic hydrocodone. I tried switching pharmacies once and when I went there they said they needed a few days to get this in, they gave me about a five day supply of what I assumed was the name brand, and low and behold that was the way this drug used to work, and none of the negative side affects, weakness, shortness of breath and generally ill feeling. Sure enough after getting the rest of my script I was overcome with sickness again. About 2 months after all this, I have a proper blood test and it is discovered that I have gone diabetic because of my kidneys struggling with what can only be discribed as a slow poisoning reaction, my kidneys struggling to cleanse this stuff from my system. We are investigating the AMA and Teva to see if it is a conspiracy to create more diabetic patients or just junk drugs.

Comment on Teva Pharmaceuticals and Poor Quality Generic Drugs by Josh

Josh — Tue, 27 Nov 2012 18:11:29 +0000

I have recently been getting 1/3 to almost empty capsules (4-6 out of 20) of amphetamine salts er 20 mg capsule.i am curious if anyone else has had this issue? Wanting other people to agree they have had same issue before I pursue further with my doc. Thanks

Comment on The Terroir of Tempranillo (El Terruño de Tempranillo) by Sunny

Sunny — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 12:25:15 +0000

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Comment on Teva Pharmaceuticals and Poor Quality Generic Drugs by Cory in Texas

Cory in Texas — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 23:35:10 +0000

I’ve been on tylenol 4 for many years for trigeminal neuralgia and always given the generic brand. My pharmacy recently switched brands to the teva brand of tylenol 4 and ironically, this article reflects my experience. The first time I took one of these pills i LITERALLY felt like I took six and was throwing up within a half hour later.

The second day taking them, I cut them in half, and had half of one and had to leave work because, again, I felt like I was going to throw up and straight up I was higher than a kite.

This is NOT my imagination and have talked to others in my chronic pain support group who have had the same experience.

Honestly: if I didn’t know better I would say they’re mixing codeine with hydrocodone. The last time I had a reaction like this was when I had oral surgery and switched from codeint to hydrocodone for a month and the day I switched I had both drugs in my system.

I’m calling my pain doc this week and telling him about this. I’m going to find out If I can give the leftover drugs to the clinic to destroy and just switch pharmacies for one that can give me the old brand I was using.

Comment on Teva Pharmaceuticals and Poor Quality Generic Drugs by maura

maura — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 21:30:45 +0000

I am at a total state of depression and anxiety filled. Teva has ruined me with what they claim to be adderall. I get tired to the point my eyes are swollen and i can not function amr

Comment on Teva Pharmaceuticals and Poor Quality Generic Drugs by Barr phara | Zyxtv

Barr phara | Zyxtv — Thu, 30 Aug 2012 22:20:38 +0000

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