Aurobindo Adderall (Top voted first)

The worst. Don't get it filled

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100% agreed!!!! I have been on Adderall generic IR since January 2014. Always filled @ CVS. All previous scripts were manufactured by TEVA. (Large football shaped, orange, sweet tasting & 30mg.) They worked great!!!! Until this past Wednesday (Aug 19th, 2014) I went to pick up my script as usual and didn't think anything of it until the next morning when I had to take one. It wasn't the same shape or taste. (This one was round, orange and a chalky bitter taste.) So I took my usual dosage and Bam Nothing happened, I was like WTF!!!! So I looked at the bottle and this new script was manufactured by Aurobindo. This pill does nothing! I've taken 4 pills total and am calling the pharmacy ASAP....
If you hear this pharmaceutical company's name for Adderall don't even bother, ask for a different manufacturer or go somewhere else you'll thank me later....

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Agree it is really bad.
•migraines
•depressed
•mood swings
•stomach aches
•lethargic
•introvert and anti-social
As a results of this horrible brand

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Hi -- WOW I used to insist generics from overseas are just as good. I stand corrected as I have just come upon this re the Aurobindo Adderall (vs the orange one I am used to.) I am terrified and pissed (I pay out of pocket) because of how awful I feel. And I have to admit that it IS because of Aurobindo's products and it makes me wonder what is going on. Now I am scared to trust anything generic -- seriously, this has opened my eyes. This is a BAD drug and I want my money back.

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I have been having horrific side effects with the Aurobindo Brand. So bad that up until I read all of these comments I truly thought that I was dying, that I had a terminal illness like Cancer. I started getting serious Neuropathic pain, numbness, depression, degenerative musculokeletal problems, I don't feel like doing anything anymore as if someone zapped the life and the will out of me. It does the complete opposite! I never had any problems with the Teva brand and I've been on this medication for years. I wouldn't doubt it if it's already been lethal, they just haven't recognized the connection or they're just not telling! I now have long term effects. This stuff is BAD NEWS!

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I've been taking Adderall for 8-9 years with little to no side effects.I am having severe problems with this medication. .My pharmacy filled my prescription 08/16/14. with Aurobindo Amphetermine 30 mg,twice daily.This prescription has been filled with Tevo and Shire brand generics prior to this.. I am having some very bad reactions/side effects from this medication. My lips,nasal and eye areas, hands and forearms keep going numb.I am lethargic and nauseated.I can't function.I am laying down sleeping 3-4 times a day.I keep having re-occuring headaches ,None of this is normal for me.I have taken this medication for 8-9 years for ADD, and have never experienced anything like this.Something isn't right with this medication.The pharmacist told me to discontinue usage immediately.I made a report to the FDA,and more than likely wasted my time.

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I have been taking 10mg Teva brand twice a day for a while now with amazing results. Then I went to CVS on 10/14 to pick up my prescription. I had recently gone to Walgreens. AUROBINDO brand was dispensed and it is completely awful and worthless! It actually made me feel worse. Anyone with severe ADHD can tell you that they can "feel" their medication work quickly. This not only did not work, but it gave me a headache in the afternoon, I felt crazy jittery and my thoughts were racing. My fingers also felt numb. Never take this stuff. Complained to the pharmacist and she said that she could lose her license if she returned my prescription. I will never make this mistake again!!

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I received the same aurobindo pharma adderall 30mg round peach tablet after taking teva for 6 years. I was so sick and it made me extremely tired and irritable. I filed a complaint with the FDA and hopefully this indian made crap will be taken off market...i dont even know whatsin the pill all i know is it wasnt adderall!!

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Neuro .. first off im inspired to take this post to my doc and second off my bad for the long message. I know this is over a year old but I'm getting in contact with you because I recently started having symptoms of ms or the likes of cancer but havent yet tested positive for anything...NOTHING...for everything. I've taken adderall generic for a few months between teva and Sandoz and never really noticed to much a difference. I was doing some amazing things...got 5$ a hour raise at work..house work..ect. could finally concentrate on things. Anyways after the last 3 months I became sick and been on disability for the past month or so. It literally hit me out of nowhere. One day I was feeling amazing the next felt like I had a serious health problem and could drop dead at any moment. I couldn't focus ..had extreme pains which is getting worse in back and swellin in my legs, cant concentrate on things i love, ect.. I noticed I was switched to aurobindo adderral instead of teva/Sandoz which I got the last 3 months. From what I have seen from multiple websites and multiple posts that this adderrall is not only weak and terrible but also toxic and exactly how you describe is how I'm feeling after having perfectly good 3 months of greatness. My dose wasn't changed, nothing changed over that time except i got aurbindo adderall instead of normal teva/sandoz. I reported this to the fda which from what I read is useless and read up on how to dispose of them. Going to docs tomorrow and she's really good and genuinely, seems like she's trying to help me. The interesting thing is while she was doing ms tests and what not she put me on 10mg in which I got corepharma. After I started taking the 10mg which normally I'm on the 30mg there was a few days where I was weak where I was starting to feel better. So I started taking 30mg of the corepharma and started to feel a little better each day. Me and the doc didn't find anything wrong things seemed to be getting better and she told me she had no complaints with aurobino (thou who knows who gets them) and the pharmacist also said she had no complains....so I got my 30mg and guess what they where aurobindo...since i was told it wasn't the generic manufacturer I went and started taking them again...first day wasn't bad... 2nd day didn't feel like they were working so took a little more nothing......3td day BAM..back to where I was and even worse. I can't even get out of bed and back pain is much worse. Can these really cause those symptoms? And if so how long after switching back did it take you to get better?

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I'm going to contact an attorney for possible c lass a ction against this company for dangerous side effects. Who is in?

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Absolutely correct! Aurobindo pharmaceutical has made a generic adderall that does absolutely nothing and has caused very bad side effects to me and to legions of others who have taken this generic brand!! Please BEWARE of all your generic brand companies and make note very closely to the pharmaceutical company specifically by the name: AUROBINDO out of INDIA!! FAKE GENERIC ADDERALL WITH SEVERE SIDE EFFECTS! There are too many people reporting this pharmaceutical company on this medication for anyone taking this brand or inquiring about this brand NOT TO PROCEED WITH CAUTION PLEASE!!

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Re: Jay (# 1)

I agree. I've always had round 10mg blue pills. Last month the pills were oval and made by this manufacturer (Aurobindo Pharm). This particular type/brand of Adderall made me so tired. I wanted to fall asleep (work, while driving, anywhere). It was weird. I've taken Adderall for 8 years and this has never happened. I get my Rx at Rite Aid. I was so happy to see my normal round pills were back when I got my refill this month (April 2018). Just to prove I wasn't going crazy, I took the oval one and got tired. Took the round and had my normal reaction. Somebody has got to report these pills for being ineffective.

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Re: AKAConcerned (# 13)

Also be aware that Teva has bought Aurobindo. Your extended release are still the same formula wise or I should say I haven’t felt a change when taking them. BUT...... my afternoon immediate release are absolutely horrific. And that is your Aurobindo with the Teva name on the bottle. When you look them up now to see the manufacturer it will even say Teva..... but they are the crap that Aurobindo has been putting out for a few years now. And it’s so suspicious to me that almost EVERY pharmacy is now carrying ONLY Aurobindo (Teva owned). If you feel different on your IR Adderall......you are SO not alone.

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I had to buy brand, because cvs only had generic. did a lot of research on this brand since posting my issues with it month ago though:

•Aurobindo was banned for couple years due to "contamination" until 2013.

•they got ability to be sold Back in U.S. and is granted tons of contracts, bids, buyouts of failing pharm companies for meds, started with mostly psych, then broad, from HIV, cancer, Amoxicillin, to recently Migraines. (Kind of ironic being that the brand produced MAJOR migraines for me and reading others experiences, same for them)

•was fined because one of their buildings burned down.

•patent infringement legal suits from other reputable companies

•employees staged walk out

•VP was recently gunned down with an AK47 in India

•nov 24th, recall because Epillepsy meds were found empty in at least four reported cases. (Wow!) so irresponsible. Imagine that.....

•stock went from $120 in 2013 to over $1400 per share in recent reports

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All I can say is that my first time taking Adderall at age 40, on May 1st of this year, I got the Aurobindo U30 (20mg IR) mixed amphetamine salts. Honestly that first 20mg dose made me feel absolutely amazing. I was calm and confident yet had energy in reserve. I was laser focused and felt I could take on anything. I also felt empathetic much like I have on other stimulants (m-d-m-a). I love empathogens/entactogens because i'm pretty much anti-social most of the time. My incessant worrying was gone and I felt like I was 20 again!

The next day I took another pill from the say bottle. Nothing. AT ALL. Zip. Zilch. Nada. Placebo. It made me wonder if they're sticking placebos in these scripts like they do with contraceptives. Anyway, out of the 30 pills about 5 seemed to work. I finally got fed up and took 4 pills (80mg) over the period of an hour. 6 hours later I was in amphetamine psychosis and having a non-stop panic attack. I almost went to the ER but decided to take some Xanax and ride it out. A horrific night that was. I hope I didn't traumatize my brain/heart too much. At least in the process I did defeat several panic attacks with coping mechanisms before I let the big one get out of hand. I won many battles but ultimately lost the war.

It's hard to say for sure what is in these pills. I believe "some" of them do have racemic and dextroamphetamine. They must have because the first time taking them is exactly how ephedra + those "other" amphetamine "formulations" made me feel. I just think overall that some of these pills are placebo, some are actually the proper milligram/dose, and some are super-potent.

Needless to say I don't want this brand again. My local CVS has Teva but i've also read so much negativity about Teva Adderall as well. It's very disconcerting. All of it. I just feel frustrated because I know that ephedrine used to calm my mind, make me feel focused and give me that good (reserved) energy. Caffeine also seems to have an opposite effect on my mind to a lesser extent.

I just want something consistent that works. I did figure out a way to make the Aurobindo's work somewhat consistently at half the prescribed dosage. I posted a new thread about it but apparently it's not going to pass moderation because it's been two days. Oh well. I would just stick with ephedrine (bronkaid or DMD pharma) but you can only buy so much of it and when you max out the DEA comes a knockin'!

ARRRGGGHHHH!! Frustration nation! I NEED consistent pills because they improve my quality of life and make me WANT to be social and productive. Something I used to be back when I was younger and taking ephedrine on a daily basis.

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Re: Penny (# 26)

I posted a message a week or so ago about auro/bindo/auro-life generic 20 mg. adderal with the 30 marking. I have taken basically every generic adderal 20 mg.talked about in the forums, Sandoz, Teva, Core-Pharma. I have heard all the generics praised and criticized depending on the individual, however, this Auro-Bindo/Auro-bindo-Aurolife is the worst "medicine" I have ever taken in my life. I do the best on Teva, or the old Sandoz, Core-Pharma not as well. But even the Cor-Pharma was not like Auro-life/aurobindo. I switched to CVS from Walgreens where they have Teva. Have been doing great and even cutting back on my adderal dosage, certainly not increasing. Been getting Teva at Walgreens for quite awhile. I remain on the prescribed dosage or less, plus my anti-depressants and anti-anxiety medicine, exactly as prescribed. Those are my best days. What I have learned over the many years of having MDD and anxiety is that all the SSRI's and SNRI's lose their efficacy over a few years. I'm on Trintellix now a relatively new SSRI which also has glutamate agonists/antogonists as well. I've also learned that skipping several days or running out because I can't afford the pills is a recipe for disaster. I must clear drugs through my system very quickly. SSRI/SNRI drug withdrawal is god-awful. I don't like the fact I cannot go off these drugs but it's too late now. I'm not willing to suffer through the 4-8 weeks of withdrawal followed by years of re-occuring problems. I have a great cognitive therapist/pyschiatrist that I see faithfully. When I switched to Trintellix, I was tapered off the Lexapro and Wellbutrion I had been on for almost 10 years and just took the Trintellix.

I went through such terrible withdrawals from the Lexapro and Wellbutrin that I couldn't tell if the Trintellix worked. I was sick physically, and mentally. But the worst part was a feeling I was actually "losing my mind" and would not come out of it. It was not the Trintellix it was going off the Lexapro and Wellbutrin completely in just a month. So I worked with my doctor we came up with a cocktail that IF I take as prescribed, actually works. I almost feel like a normal person. In order to remain on my meds faithfully I needed to switch to a 24 hour pharmacy because of my job hours. SO I went to CVS. I forgot that they were the ones who switched me from Sandoz to Cor-Pharma. I had been with Walgreens for several years always getting Teva.. I didn't look at my adderall until I got home. Instead of the oval darker pink Teva, which has a coating and you can easily break them in two if you only need half, the new pills were smaller, round and very, very crumbly. As soon as I took my dose the next day I knew they were bad. They melted on my tongue before I could swallow them. I knew immediately they were crap drugs felt NOTHING. No focus, no energy, and horrible depression by the end of the day. Jittery and nauseated and headachy. Also ironically after they wore off I was extremely irritable and anxious which I do not get from Teva. In one day I had essentially undone all the weeks of working toward the right combination of drugs for me to have a normal productive life. I looked up the pills and found out they are made by Auro-life a division of auro-bindo out of India. The FDA took Auro-Bindo generics off the US market from 2006 until 2013. Due to the drugs having 50% or less of the active ingredients, and being contaminated with dirt and unsafe additives. Great, I was taking the worst drug on the generic adderall market and had just paid CVS $72.00 for the privilege. Bottom line I don't take any of my medication to "feel high", I'm 63 years old. I need it in the dosages prescribed to feel HUMAN.

It is medicine for god's sake. Why would I bother if it made me feel worse? I was pissed. I called my doctor and she wrote another script for me to take to Walgreens for Teva. I haven't had time this week to go pick up the script due to work. I also told the pharmacist at CVS.. Then I really got pissed. She said CVS had Teva in stock, they were out of Sandoz, so they took the Auro-Bindo the least effective option from the suppliers. They prefer Sandoz, their second choice is TeVa but if the supplier can't fill the entire order with Sandoz, they the Auro-Life/Aurobindo. So the pharmacy knows Auro-Bindo is not as efficacious as Sandoz and Teva. But they give it to their customers/patients without telling them it is different. What's worse is I could have gotten the Teva instead but I didn't know to ask for it. I told the pharmacist the Auro-Life not only did not work, but made me jittery, nauseated, and depressed (plus headaches). I was hoping she would "trade me" for Teva. Nope, so until I drive out to my doctor's office, I have been taking this crap. I am going to file the complaint to the FDA. I agree with Pam who said it feels like that ephedra stuff you could by at the gas station to pull an allnighter in college, or to work a double shift. But I never got the extreme depression from Ephedra. Whatever is in these pills is not pure or uniform. Taking these has set me back at least a week in my work, family life and and feeling normal. My hard-earned progress ended when a pharmacy cavalierly gave me a crappy generic. Instead of saying is there a particular generic that works best for you? I am totally self pay so if there was a brand Adderal IR I would try to afford it. But there is not. So a simple 30 second conversation, "what have you been taking? Is it working? We can fill it with Teva would you prefer that generic?" If I had been on Sandoz, I would have had a choice of Teva or The Auro-Life. A simple statement that Auro-life/Aurobindo generic is not tolerated well by some people, or a more neutral "you may find it doesn't work the same as the generic you have been taking, if so call your doctor. But no, nothing. they sent me merrily on my way to suffer for ten days with this nasty stuff.

The only way I can explain it is it feels like a "dirty" drug. A drug that if someone sold it to you on the street you would probably go back and kick their ass. Why should we be put through this. We are not purchasing from street dealers, but a legitimate pharmacy and a supposedly FDA approved generic. And even the generics are not cheap. Aren't we entitled to know what is in this stuff.? At least with a street seller you could go back and tell the dealer, this is s***, what is in this? But the pharmacy companies and the pharmacies treat us like we are doing something wrong, that we should be grateful they fill the damn prescription at all.

I know pharmacists know which generics are historically the worst. But they have to stick with that BS line about an approved generic must have 80% of the active ingredient of the brand drug. Yeah, right. How do they police that? Do they do random evaluations of batches coming from a particular lab before they ship them to the US? Hell no. If the FDA gets enough complaints they will investigate, maybe. But if Auro-Bindo was bad enough to be taken off the US generic market from 2006 until 2013, due to fraud, basically. They were making more money for the shareholders by cutting their drugs with aspartine, sacharine, and god knows what else to 50% or less of the allowed level. The FDA must be exceptionally trusting to think if that company made millions if not billions doing it until they got caught, why wouldn't they revert back to the same behavior once the heat was off? Come on now. I think that because it is a schedule II drug, the manufacturers think they can provide just enough of the active ingredients and patients won't complain. If we complain then we sound wacko or addicted. After all who are the pharmacies and doctors going to believe a multi-billion dollar corporation with numerous research chemists or a bunch of messed up adderal addicts? The irony is by reducing the active ingredients in controlled substances, while the FDA and pharmacies stand silent while they know there are major discrepancies in the efficacy and strength of the controlled substance generics, they are in effect endangering people's lives.

We just want to be well. To feel like functioning adults. The higher they quality and consistency between the different generics prevents people from over-medicating to achieve the same advantageous effect. I have been on the same dosage of generic adderal for at least 3-4 years. My dosage has not been increased. I do not abuse them, but I depend on them to do what they are supposed to do consistently. I don't want to have to take twice the amount I normally would because I get a bummer batch one month. And what about the possibility of lack of consistency between the individual pills themselves. This is exactly why street drugs are so dangerous. The amount of the active ingredient can vary greatly depending on the supplier. So people overdose. Likewise the government outlaws synthetic Marijuana and club drugs because the synthetic drugs vary in chemical composition and what is in the synthetic drugs can range from relatively harmless to pyschosis inducing like "Spice." We call this behavior criminal, sometimes we charge these suppliers with murder, or attempted murder or reckless homicide. We lock those dealers up, but we continue to purchase from and reward pharmaceutical companies that do the same thing. If I have a stroke because I double my adderal dose one month to get the same therapeutic effect as last month's batch, or have a pyschotic reaction, I will take the blame. Not the people who supplied the drugs. This has to stop.

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This company is going to end up killing someone. Ive thought over and over i was truely and honestly sick. The migraines this med has caused me has ruined my life. I cannot work when they occur, i am literally sick. The sores in my mouth caused my pills were so bad, i couldnt even eat. The pill dont even give me any relief from my A.D.H.D symptoms.
This company needs to fold in their towels. They are only causing more and more problems for people that already suffer from a problem in the first place. Its sad. All for what? Cheaper meds? You can make more money if the products is good and actually works for what they are supposed to work then money could be made.

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Please help! Weird generic adderall filled at CVS today. 20mg tablet

This is a HUGE concern for me as I just filled my prescription today (9/8/2014) at CVS and found your post after googling what the difference is as they look completely different as they often do with generics, but I've NEVER seen them look like this nor look so chalky. I haven't taken one yet so I do not know if it will have the same results as my previous ones which were all TEVA pharm also. Did you speak with CVS about your findings with this new pharm company? I would really appreciate knowing what they had to say if you don't mind. Thank you in advance.

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I am so upset. I was taking aurobindo a few years back and thought I may need to start taking a higher dose because it wasn’t working. I then spoke to a friend who told me she was on aurobindo and it wasn’t working. I dropped off my prescription at HEB and told them I do not want aurobindo and only impax. I just looked at my pills and it is aurobindo! I just called the pharmacist and there is nothing they can do! I stopped going to CVS because they only had aurobindo and now HEB only has aurobindo and now you have to have the pharmacist special order if you don’t want aurobindo!

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I agree.this adderall is making me worse.what can I do to switch because I can not function at all on this and I have a family to support.what can I do

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Yes that adderall is no good.made me worse.my Dr put me on name brand and I felt so much better.its criminal how the pharmaceutical company's can add different fillers and binders and get away with it.so i got it filled and the insurance didn't want to pay for it.i pay so much for insurance and 1 time I had an issue they made it so hard.

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I think Aurobindo adderall is counterfeit.. I've Been on adderall for over 7 years and never ever had this brand and...

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