Adderall Xr 20mg. Blue Capsule (Page 4)
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Pharmacy recently switched me to new generic brand (blue capsule) of adderall XR. I have never seen this brand and I don't feel like it is effective. I lack concentration and focus, recurring symptoms of ADHD. Anyone else experience this?

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Yes. I think the generic blue is less effective than the orange and white one.

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I have taken the Teva brand Adderall 30mg XR for about 6 years. My pharmacy ran out, so I had to go to another pharmacy to get it. This pharmacies pills looked different but I didn't think anything of it. I had been taking them for about 2 weeks, and was feeling very tired, exhausted really, irritable, headache and depressed. I attributed this to maybe a virus or something. Then I had to take a UA for a new job. The drug panel center came back negative for any and all amphetamines. You all know that I should have failed that diagnosis. That triggered me to do some Internet searching on the Actavis brand of addy. I got my dr to write me an rx for the Teva brand. He said there is a big difference in generics. I just took my Teva brand addy about an hour ago and it's like everything is coming into focus again. That stuff is garbage to me.

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I'm fascinated to read this thread, because my 17yrold son just described the exact opposite experience to what so many of you have had. He has been taking the blue Adderall XR 20 mg pills for about a year and having the most academically successful year of his life. Since we get his meds via mail order, we sometimes have to wait for them to arrive, and today he took the same dosage but of my prescription, which has continued to be filled with the orange pills. He told me he was totally unfocused and might as well not have taken anything. His reading comprehension was terrible and he couldn't function at all mentally. I wonder why this would be true?

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I agree, it just doesn't help me either.I am going to call druggist and tell him too let me know if he can't get hold of previous ones I'll go to another druggist. My bottle has same info & mfg on bottle, yet old ones were yellow, these are blue.

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I just got switched to time release by my Doctor. Last month I got the orange time release, I didn't like it compared to the regular 20mg. When I realized that my prescriptions for this year were dated for 2013, I had to go back to the doctor to get them changed to 2014. I took that opportunity to ask if I could switch back. He said no, I want you to stay on the time release. I finally got my script for January, and I get these blue things. Now I'm really pissed, they are horrible. Going back to see Dr., if he doesn't help me, I'm switching doctors. I don't understand why he won't help me make it right. If you get the blue 20mg capsule, I would immediately refuse them

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I have been taking 30mg Adderall ER for six years, I functioned well, no speed or slow down, in fact they worked so well I no longer noticed them. then a new doc. wants to change everything I told him it took me almost ten years to develop a treatment regime that worked for me. I am sixty seven, not trying to make myself feel high, just relieve my hdd and narcolepsy, my bi polar has stopped cycling and stays on the depressed side. I started a generic two days ago, made by actavis pharma, its 30mg aamphetamine salts ER, saying its a substitute for Adderall.

I took the pill the same way every morning at 9PM, I waited and waited nothing happened, I took another pill at 1200pm after an hour nothing happened. This morning I took a pill at 9am nothing happened I took two 30 mg pills at 1130 am again nothing happened. F*** this I am brining the remainder of the pills back to cvs and ask for a different brand, from my experience actavis is either incompetent
greedy or both.

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Yes. I had a terrible experience with the generic version from Actavis. It was a blue capsule. It was so bad, I went into severe depression and missed weeks of work. I thought I was going crazy. I told my psychiatrist and he gave me a rx for the brand name only. I threw away those terrible Actavis capsules. I will never take those again.

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Hi! Wish I had found this months ago, would have saved me months of feeling sick. I have been on the brand name Adderall XR 25mg for almost 2 yrs. Last June my insurance changed from brand name to generic. I filled it at local Rite Aid (Teva) and was nauseous for over an hour every time taking this medication. As well as less focused, fatigue, and headaches. The next month I filled it at local CVS (Actavis) and it was even worse with stomach issues an hour after taking this medication. As well as less focused, fatigue, and headaches. I thought at first I had to get used to the generic and didn't think anything of it. I went to the Rite Aid and CVS out of convenience, no other reason. I went back to have prescription filled at Rite Aid and again was feeling sick every day after taking it, but not as bad as meds from CVS. I started to research generic vs brand name. I thought I was going crazy. So next month I went back to CVS and felt worse. Finally spoke with my doctor who informed me that many of his patients were having trouble with the generi Actavis. That CVS had switched to this manufacturer because it was cheaper. He also explained there have been issues with the timing release of medication in the XR. And that the rest of the 'fillers' in the medication is not FDA regulated. I found the Actavis to be horrible. Much worse than the Teva. I am finally back on the brand name. Still having some stomach issues, but its only been 4 days. Have to pay $30, but better having the medication work. Really hoping it gets better!! Thank you for this post, I thought it was just me!

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I mentioned it to my PCP and the pharmacist, neither of them have heard of adverse reactions and said everyone is different and respond differently. But as this forum shows...that's not the case. Luckily my Walgreen's accepts ExpressScrips again and they have the Teva/Barr generic, my CVS doesn't, so we switched.

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It's been about 2 weeks since my pharmacy switched from the orange to the blue...20 mg extended release generic adderall....feeling very off and am so glad I found this site!

Symptoms include lack of concentration, but quite different than not being on adderall ...much much worse...very, very sleepy and not thinking very clearly..almost like in a fog ..will switch back immediately!

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Oh my godness! I'm not crazy then!! I had the same feelings. I work under bright lights for 5+ hours a day and some days it was so miserable! It was like my head was physically pushing against my eyes to the point where things would get blurry until I closed and rubbed my eyes and then it would be fine again. I had extreme mood swings but I just figured it was the stress of my school environment. I also started to break out horribly! And im past puberty and rarely ever have more than one breakout. Here's one more person saying that the blue actavis pills are basically poison without any positive effects. I aliken to taking rat poison and the only difference is it doesn't kill you right away. So glad I am back on Teva generic now.

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Yes. All of us agree on this forum that the new blue pill is complete garbage. Go to every pharmacy around you and ask what company makes their adderall. You are looking for Bar. The company name is "Bar" and they make the nest generic adderall right now. Thanks me later :)

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I will try to do the same. This Actavis generic company did not but cause depression for my daughter. I will either look for the other generic company (BARRR) or just order the name brand (shire). ty everyone for posting

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I was able to finally file a report online with the FDA (accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/medwatch/medwatch-online.htm), however I had to check boxes that didn't apply to the situation, for example 'Death'. Not very user friendly. Nonetheless it's sent. I hope it doesn't fall on deaf ears (eyes).

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My husband and I are both on 20mg a day of Adderall XR. Previously CVS was filling our prescriptions with the generic made by Teva. I was given the generic by Actavis first and told my husband I didn't like it and it was *almost like taking nothing. He said "generics are generics". The next time his prescription was filled he was also given Actavis and he hates it as well. (Haha, told ya so!)
Actavis is terrible terrible terrible. I don't care what the doctors, pharmacists or chemists or whoever-ists say about it...it is NOT the same. I know there isn't anything I can do until I get my next prescription filled, but if they don't have the generic made by Teva I'm asking for the name brand. (Generic is $7, Brand name is $53 on our insurance.) If they don't have that I'm going to a different pharmacy until I get what I want.
I tried filing a complaint with the FDA but the online form would never submit, and I didn't have the patience to wait on the phone.

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BLUE 20 MG ACTAVIS GENERIC ADDERALL XR IS HORRIBLE!!!!! ACTAVIS GENERIC ADDERALL XR CAUSES DEPRESSIONI received a 3 month supply of 20 mg Generic Actavis Adderall XR (blue capsules from Express Scripts in May and I have been terribly depressed ever since. I have missed work and have been put on antidepressants. I feel horrible. They do not work. I am sending a complaint to the FDA, Express scripts and the manufacturer.

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OK now I'm nervous...lol.. they started me on the blue ones and today I started with the orange. I have been feeling some anxiety so far this am. Looked online to make sure they did not give me the wrong thing. Sounds like it may just be a bit stronger than the blue ones. I guess I will give it a week to see if I level out. Sigh. As long as I don't walk in circles all day I will be OK.

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I too use CVS & took it up with the head pharmacist. He has been "special ordering" the orange for me after 2 months of hell on the blue. He told me that CVS has a new policy of making the pharmacy customers happy as they have been dead last in customer satisfaction surveys. Talk to your head pharmacist, insist they order the orange for you and if enough people keep complaining and refusing the blue impostors, the pharmacies will bring back the orange!

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The orange 30 mg Dr is what I'm talking about. They are made by bar and are the closest to non generic you can get!

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Yeah, I suggest calling every place and ask if what company makes their generic adderal. That's what I did aand found that walgreens has them. I'm so happy I. Switched, those blue pills are the devil!! Lol

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