Camber Adderall Complaints

Camber's new generic for Adderall IR 15mg is no good. Prior to it I got 10mg Adderall from CVS and it worked great! Just got a fill from Kroger since CVS was out of stock. The brand is from Camber and not only does it not work, it makes me feel unwell, sleepy and super irritated. It’s crazy how companies are able to differentiate in their generics like they do. This Camber brand just makes me want to go to sleep but I feel so unwell it’s hard to. I can’t focus at all on anything but how sick I feel. Don’t take this new stuff people and if you have what did you think?

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Generic medication can vary up to 20% in strength from the name brand, so one could be 20% weaker and another 20% stronger than name brand, so that’s a huge difference. Please complain to the FDA. There’s an on line form for it. These companies (like Aurobindo) make fake meds and figure they can get away with it because who would even complain except people with a mental illness.

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Re: Optimistic (# 1)

I took it today for the first time as Walgreens was out of my normal RX. I too feel like crap on the Camber version. I feel very out of it and very sleepy.

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Re: Optimistic (# 1)

20mg is worthless as well. It seems many pharmacies have made the switch to this brand. The only other generic I can define is mfred by Lannett.

Interestingly enough, Camber had a lawsuit filed against them in 2019 because one of their medications was “contaminated with a carcinogenic and liver-damaging impurity and that the medication was dangerous and worthless to the plaintiffs.”

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I just got Camber 20mg IR and I am so sick. Sleepy, nauseous, headache, diarrhea, unfocused. It’s terrible. Feels like I took valium. Can’t replace until next month. I’m in shock.

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Kroger pharmacy also switched me to Camber generic IR in February 2022. I have been getting TEVA for four years from Kroger.Camber literally makes me sick. Physically. The same symptoms you describe. It does the opposite of what it is supposed to do. It makes me drowsy, but edgy and irritable, causes brain lock and inabilty to focus. I feel physically clumsy and just not “right.” I told my doctor and the pharmacy. My doctor will write fill with Teva generic when available. I don’t understand how these generic pharmaceutical companies can manipulate the pharmacist and pharmacies like this. I have been on the same dosage of generic adderal for 10 years. I have gotten some bad generics before when CVS or Walgreens couldn’t get Teva or Sandoz. They typically just didn’t work. The Camber generic makes me incredibly depressed as well. I am filing a complaint with the FDA.

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Re: Starlettevic (# 2)

Yes. Exact same response I have to Camber. I told my doctor and pharmacist. Was on TeVa for four years. My doctor will write fill with Teva when available but if it’s not then I have to take their generic “soup du jour” I have been on adderal generic IR and have gotten ineffective brands in the past when pharmacies were out of Teva or Sandoz but Camber is not just ineffective it’s making me physically sick and depressed. I am going to file complaint with FDA this is ridiculous.

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Last month i filled Teva which was 100% ineffective. And it’s usually a really good brand. But. A lot of people are complaining about it this year. This month I got Camber. I feel a head pressure feeling. However, it does work for me. Not the best generic, not the worst, IMHO

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Please do file a report with the FDA about this. I just did, because I’ve had the same experience: the product not only is ineffectual, it’s downright detrimental. Here’s a link to the FDA page where you can submit complaints and comments:

https:/­/­www.accessdata.fda.gov/­scripts/­medwatch/­index.cfm

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I'm having the same problem I'm on the 20 and the 5 MG and I've been on this new generic brand a month and I've been sick dark urine no engery and cannot function I've been on Adderall for 25 yrs and never have I had a reaction like this. Something is definitely not right

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Ever since my grocery store pharmacy has switched to Camber IR, I have a headache every single time I take one! This is crazy! I filed a report from the link posted (thank you other contributor!) I was hoping they would switch back to the other generic, but no go! I have to wait until my next refill!

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I just got camber for my booster and I did not like it. It made my heart race and my mouth very itchy. I got it from fred meyer because I get my XR there which is Shire brand which works great. I also had no focus on Camber

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Re: Jessica (# 9)

I posted originally in March? I couldn’t take the headaches, irritability fatigue lethargy lack of focus and depression which came when Kroger switched from Teva after 4 years to Cambor/Camber. I reported it to my doctor and the pharmacy. My doctor’s office had several patients experiencing same. But Kroger was well it’s the cheapest so corporate makes the decisions. I switched my prescriptions back to Walgreens professional pharmacy after verifying they use TeVa. No problems since. I’m glad you commented I forgot about the weird darker, odorous scant urine in the morning. My whole body ached at night. That stuff is bad.

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Re: Kim D (# 12)

Thanks for all the posts; I thought I had covid - until I read about these side effects. Did anyone get lower abdominal cramps?

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Re: c (# 13)

Thank you all for writing about CAMBER adderall. I thought something was seriously wrong with me. My biggest problem was the severe fatigue, I can't stay out of bed! I have also had extreme heartburn and upset stomach and nothing seems to help it. I have also had depression! A favorite song came on the radio last night and I instantly burst into tears...for no reason! I realized that all of my health problems started at the same time, about 1 month ago...when I refilled my adderall and received it from CAMBER, (for the first time) On a whim, I decided to do an online search for "Problems with Adderall from CAMBER". I was amazed when several pages of complaints against CAMBER Adderall came up. Thanks again to all who wrote in... now I know I'm not a hypochondriac!!!

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Do not accept Camber as a new generic for Adderall. It will make you sick and the headache it produces will keep you incapacitated as it did to me. I am in withdrawal as I can not get LANNETT OR TIVA generic Adderall.
Read the label before you pay for it. DO NOT ACCEPT "CAMBER" MANUFACTURER FOR GENERIC ADDERALL FROM YOUR PHARMACY.

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I’ve been taking adderal for 15 years and I’ve never had such a terrible reaction to a medication. I actually went to get a Covid test… i was overwhelmingly tired, had a sore throat from the horrible dry mouth, headache and so on. I noticed today that I also became very itchy and flush about 20 mins after I took it. I am most definitely having an allergic reaction most likey to the inactive ingredients. It happened one a long time ago. I’m calling my insurance to see if they will allow my doctor to write for the brand name. Has anyone tried this?

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I’ve been on Teva generic Adderall for years and my last 2 months my pharmacy filled my RX with Camber even though before I got my last refill I told them I noticed that they changed my brand/mfg and asked them why? The guy I was talking to just said, “We fill whatever we have in stock” and didn’t offer the info about how I can request my previous brand/mfg… was kind of an ass about it, honestly, but I was hoping to get my Teva back when I went to get my RX since ass on the phone didn’t even bother to offer to check what they had in stock if I wanted or anything basically rushed off the phone after I asked him why it changed…

Anyways I’m not happy about this s*** at all, I’m literally taking my RX as prescribed and I feel like I can’t focus or function at all, I can’t stop yawning, and I feel like it’s pretty much worse than not taking my meds at all… at least when I don’t take my meds & I’m yawning I can drink a RedBull, Wild Cherry Pepsi, or something with 7 shots of espresso and I can kinda function as well as an unmedicated ADD person can but at least I’m not yawning all the time anymore… I take my Camber and drink my Starbucks with 7 shots of espresso and I still can’t quit yawning, I looked into this the first time I got my RX and noticed it wasn’t my normal brand/mfg and saw similar complaints but I was still going to try it out and form my own opinion… well after asking why it was changed and ass on the phone was, well, an ass about it, I talked to my doctor about the whole situation today between not feeling like I’m used to it or something I showed her a comment about the brand/mfg they switched me to when I was looking for my previous brand/mfg and she saw other people that had the same/similar outcomes for Camber involuntarily being their meds for the month and she reassured me that I wasn’t the only one that felt like that so it’s not me and she was going to write for them to fill it with Teva so I can function and focus again… not to mention stop wasting money since I have 1.5 months of medication that doesn’t work for me and the one result I usually have from taking it is a headache… so basically Camber is s*** for me. I also see that in a bunch of comments that people are having trouble with their Camber Adderall people are filing complaints with the FDA. I hope this helps.

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Re: Starlettevic (# 2)

I myself got the Camber adderall and its horrible. It makes me dizzy, sick and doesn't work

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Re: Optimistic (# 1)

Just started on camber, been taking Adderall since 2002. I have taken every brand. It's in your mind. Absolutely about what you perceive to remember Adderall to be from past experiences. Cambers IR 30 offers a solid 7 hours of work, and I see that you guys love 4-6. I'm a 6' 225 pound man with a tolerance. I just know what to look for.

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Glad to hear you’re having a positive response. However, there is no need for you to insult those of us who have not had a good reaction to the medication. Many of us went a month or more without medication because we could not take Camber.

I do find it interesting, though, that you sought out this conversation and chose to insult people rather than just share your positive experience.

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Re: James (# 121)

It's funny, Mallinckrodt from what I have read from others has very mixed reviews. More so than any other brand. Having tried it myself, it isn't a good brand, but can be good enough when nothing good is available. At least, that is how I respond which was often shared by others.
For me, bad brands, aurobindo/aurolife, sun pharma (formulary taken over by Frontida BioPharm Inc. which may be sold as Sun or Frontida). Both of which have been white labelled as Northstar brand. Epic, the new Lannett formulary post July 2022, accord / Intas, Camber, Granules. Basically, for generic Adderall I avoid any brand that is or is owned by an Indian or Chinese based brand. Nothing against those countries or people. Just that their pharma industry culture is to make cheap generics with lower quality ingredients and too often low standards. Which is where most generics and active/inactive ingredients are based from.

All Adderall is made in the U.S. But, foreign companies do manufacture scheduled drugs in the U.S. Including the brand name as Teva is an Israeli company. Which bought the British company Shire who had the patent before them.

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Re: NotAJunkie77 (# 19)

You need to understand that people respond to drugs in different ways. Some people take Adderall and it puts them to sleep while others get wired. Some people respond to 100% dextroamphetamine better than any combination with levoamphetamine. Adderall is 75% dextro and 25% levo. Some find that works better.

Generally dextro acts more on the brain while levo acts more on the cardiovascular system. Increase heart rate and respiration, more circulating oxygen, more stimulation. So, you can see how some respond better to something like Adderall.

Evekeo is 50/50% dextro/levo. 15% of people respond better to that combination. Which could possibly be many of the people who may respond better to generics that don't work as well for others.

The main issue is low quality vs higher quality inactive ingredients. Which, unlike the name, are not always inactive. "Inactive" ingredients all have their own drug profiles and may help people to respond in certain ways to the active ingredient or may boost or inhibit it. Or add their own unique effect. The big issue for those whose generics don't work compared to others is likely due to excipients helping, hindering, or being neutral in aiding the active ingredient to pass the blood brain barrier for them. i.e. the better brands may have an Adjuvant - " ingredients that modify the action of the main ingredient in a solution or prescription, or enhance the effectiveness of a medical treatment".

As a quick excipient example. Calcium Carbonate is a common excipient (again, inactive ingredient) used for things like diluent, improve dissolution rate, opacifier, and dissolution adjuvant in tablets. At the same time it also acts as an antacid. Which, for someone with a lot of stomach acid may enhance absorption of Adderall (amphetamine). Amphetamines are a weak base. Which can be ionized by stomach acid. ionized amphetamine has a harder time being absorbed. It is also how it is eliminated through urine which would also make it last a shorter time. Having calcium carbonate for whatever reason could easily improve absorption for someone with strong stomach acid. Who may report that brand more favorably than someone like me who takes omeprazole to suppress stomach acid.

So, not only do people respond differently to the actual active ingredient, people also respond differently to the inactive ingredients which can make a huge or no difference between brands for them. Most people respond best to 100% dextro for the therapeutic effect. But I prefer the weaker 4 mixed salts of Adderall myself because of the smoother transition for onset/offset. Evekeo just plain sucked for me being too weak, not enough dextro.

40mg corepharma, teva, sandoz, shire, barr would wake me up and get me out of bed in 20 minutes. Aurobindo, sun pharma, and more, 100mg, I had to set my alarm 2 hours later to be sure to wake up and get out of bed. There is nothing psychosomatic that would account for that difference. Especially when I didn't realize I was switched to Aurobindo and thought I was still taking corepharma.

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Re: Caitlin (# 17)

Funny you mention the 1.5 months of the crappy generic. Due to shortages every few years and taking less than prescribed when ever I can get by on it. I had over 5 months of a crappy brand lined up before I realized I had been switched to it (Aurobindo/aurolife white labeled as Norhtstar).

Was going nuts for over a month trying to figure out what went wrong before I realized it was the brand that got switched on me. Corepharma and Aurobindo have the exact same size, shape, and score pattern on the drug. 20mg Corepharma is pink while Aurobindo is orange. But, while still in bed with the lights off, they look exactly the same. Thought it was due to other medication changes I had around that time that were giving me bad side effects. Then finally, over a month later looked in the light of the bathroom and realized they were a light orange not a light pink. Ughhh! This was in 2022 in the middle of the shortage.

Titrated aurobindo up to 100mg from my usual 40 of Corepharma that I start my day with. Then took 40mg more a couple hours later. Still less effective than my 40mg corepharma that I would only sometimes bump up with 10 or 20mg in the afternoon if needed.

Also, one of the clues that led me to understand the problem was the active ingredient not passing the blood brain barrier. After a few months and ran through the less effective even at triple the dose Aurobindo, I did not have increased tolerance in my brain. Which means it couldn't have been passing the BBB. Then read about how some excipients can help certain drugs pass the BBB. And learned how bioequivalence actually works (most people get it wrong).

Things were ok for a month or so. Then I started taking Mounjaro for diabetes. Which was a whole nother more complicated issue. It can help, hinder, or be neutral in regards to signaling in the pre frontal cortex. And science isn't yet able to predict which effect someone would have. For me, it blocked my adderall (and any psychoactive medication from working) in my case which again, I had changed other medications that were giving me bad side effects and thought it was that etc. Ugh!! Again, eventually up to 140mg of adderall, but this time it was Teva or Sandoz. Which didn't work at all in the end. Found out too late that although it wasn't allowing psychoactive meds to have a therapeutic effect, they were damaging/downregulating my brain unhindered at the high dose which persisted the tolerance/side effects after I stopped taking Mounjaro many many months later. The positive side effects some people have with Mounjaro and other GLP-1 based drugs are being studied for possible second line medications for things like depression and anxiety. Some peole on psychoactive meds having huge benefits from GLP-1 based drugs.

For the people with negative side effects like me, industry is doing a good job of trying to hide that fact. Even did a fake research article on people reporting issues in social media to discredit people self reporting negative side effects. Which if you read closely, excluded people like me taking psychoactive meds and getting interference from the statistics. Needless to say, there are zero statistics on incidence rates for those with negative cognitive side effects ranging from simple brain fog to some people with bi-polar disorder having to be hospitalized to rebalance their neurotransmitters. Welcome to America. Land of the free and home of the screwed by corporate industry. And left to fend for ourselves by a certain political party that prefers to defund government agencies that regulate like the FDA, making them far less effective and able to do much of the things we would expect them to. Combined with FDA incompetence on some issues like these.

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Re: Rick J (# 15)

Bonus points on mentioning withdrawal. Most people blame that crappy brand for all their symptoms not realizing much or most of what they are experiencing is withdrawal. Which may be made worse by low quality excipients in some generics like Camber.

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Re: Kim D (# 5)

It wasn't likely the bad generic making you feel sleepy, depressed etc. It is more likely from dependence on Adderall.

Our brains try to counteract changes made to it by drugs to get back to what it thinks is the natural baseline. So it starts shutting down receptors to decrease the boosted signaling drugs provide. After a while many receptors will be absorbed and taken out of action. So when off the drug, you now have less receptors and no drug boosting the neurotransmitters so you would be worse than your normal premedicated base line. Then factor in how amphetamines even at prescribed doses can cause damage in other ways that add to tolerance.

In other words, you have become dependent on the drug just to be able to get back up to your natural baseline nevertheless getting to a therapeutic effect. Which, if you stop taking the drug, it is also know as withdrawal. Usually it is not too bad at low doses and for many at mid level doses. Some even don't have issue at higher doses. Me, ruined my life with accumulated side effects at and below prescribed doses. Not the most typical response, but not totally unusual. Hence all the research I did on it.

Not to be confused with addiction. Addiction includes dependence, but dependence doesn't have to include addiction. With addiction, that would additionally involve physical and/or mental cravings, often sickness like nausea, cold sweats, shivers, tremors, headache, etc. Cheap excipients can cause things like nausea, headache etc. as well as dependence does when you stop taking the drug, or take a crappy generic that doesn't work which has the same effect as withdrawal but may actually make it worse with the low quality excipients side effects.

Funny thing is, amphetamine based medications are actually less addictive than caffeine when caffeine is paired with sugar like in soda. And far less addictive than nicotine in cigarettes. I've talked to people who have exceeded 300mg of the good brand of generic Adderall a day and still only been dependent and not addicted. Unfortunately, people with very high levels of dependence like that can take over a year to renormalize their neurotransmitters while off it.

For me, if I take some Adderall it gets my brain going but I can feel a bit shaky and uncoordinated and somewhat hyperactive yet sleepy at the same time. So I have to take more to get to a functional dose. Taking none. I am just sleepy, grumpy, unfocused etc. as I have high dependence and working to get off it forever. Again, I am not the most typical case, most people are stable on their dose, but should be aware if they have issues with dosage escalation, high tolerance, high or accumulating side effects.

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Re: Ang985 (# 3)

From what I have read, people really liked Lannett till around July of 2022 when they had to change their formulary. It was originally manufactured by Elite Labs Inc. and marketed by Lannett. Elite decided to market their own drug themselves which is why Lannett had a new formulary after July 2022 which people didn't like.

Good news is, Elite is the same formulary of Lannett that people liked before July 2022. I've neve tried it myself, but am curious to see how I would respond to it given the mostly positive reviews in the past.

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Re: Optimistic (# 1)

That information is 100% incorrect and what most people believe (I even propagated something like that early on too). I'd recommend you do a search on how bioequivalence is established. It is based on blood concentration of the API (active ingredient) at set time intervals in the same person in a ratio comparison to the brand name drug. If you find a source that doesn't mention the geometric mean, AUC, BAC and stuff like that, keep looking because it is not the right information.

The difference between a crap brand like aurobindo etc. is that the excipients (inactive ingredients) are either not helping or interfering with the API crossing the blood brain barrier. I don't know if the excipients used by the good brands help or are neutral in helping the API cross the BBB or if the crappy brands are neutral or inhibit the API crossing the BBB. I'd have to look at individual excipients to try to figure that out which is more effort than I want to put in.

So, bioequivalence is all about absorption rates of the API and half life elimination. Which assumes therapeutic equivalence but never actually tests for it. Passing the BBB is required to actually be therapeutic and not factored in. Which is why we see the difference between crappy and good brands that can/can't pass the BBB well. There is a good historical reason why therapeutic equivalence is assumed for most drugs based on bioequivalence. Generic psychoactive drugs based on amphetamines like Adderall, Dexedrine, Zenzedi, Vyvanse, etc. seem to be highly effected by the excipients and given all the complaints over many many years, the FDA is screwing this issue up big time which screws the rest of us.

Tell your therapist to put on the script the brands that work for you and the pharmacy will only fill with one of those. If they don't have one available, transfer to another pharmacy that does. Which is why I prefer hand written scripts since in a time of shortage I've had to go pharmacy to pharmacy trying to find what brands work for me. You can't as easily go to a dozen or more pharmacies with those stupid electronic scripts the doctors send. Also look into what information needs to be on a written script if you get one. My doctors office screws that up most of the time and I often have to go back to get it filled in correctly. Such a ridiculous system.

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Re: c (# 13)

I got severe lower abdominal pains. Very nauseous, headache, fatigue, unable to focus. I couldn't even do my job at work kept nodding off. The Camber Generic is very toxic!!!

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I have taken Adderall IR for ten years and have been taking it for ten years.

Recently they gave me Camber.


There is no doubt something is profoundly wrong with this product.

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Camber brand does work but it’s less potent.

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