New Generic 30 Mg Adderall Xr (all Orange W/ R 3061 On Them) Not As Effective (Page 4) (Top voted first)

please share your experience with this never seen before, less effective drug that two different pharmacy's have given to me in last two months. they make me fall asleep!

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We are getting scammed! I don't want any of this foreign watered down crap! I've been taking Sandoz generic IR Adderall 20mg 3x per day for years and know how it is supposed to work! This latest batch has got to be the absolute weakest of any of the rest of the weak batches I have gotten this past year! This is just like taking a placebo! I have so much to do, and as a result of completely ineffective medication, productivity is completely out the window! I might as well throw my hands up and quit! Please, everyone contact the FDA. The American people should not put up with this abuse from greedy pharmaceutical companies! We pay higher prices, more than any other country in the world for medication, and this is the kind of crap we get?!! Make your voice heard and ring the FDA's phone off the hook! If we don't, nothing will ever change!

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Re: upstatenyer (# 18)

The generic orange adderall XR is terrible. I take Adderall XR 30 mg once a day.
I miss the days when Shire and Barr produced Adderall and Dexedrine. Years back the medicine actually worked as intended for focus and alertness. I have ADD and MS and I am unable to get really anything completed and it certainly does not last 12 hours!!! I am lucky to get 4 hours from the medication.

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if this is the case then that makes no sense that theyre using the supposedly ineffective adderall xr to get ppl to switch to vyvanse when you just stated that the vyvanse made you feel even worse

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I have been taking adderal for 8 years, recently I have been problems with adderall no longer being effective in regards to focusing, which has caused my doctor to prescribe different types of medication. Anyways its midterms week for my med school and I need to focus so I he gave me adderal 60mg xr when i went to CVS the gave me r3061. I can tell you that literally it does nothing, in order to know for sure I decided to try taking more than I normally do. Long story short in 7 hours took about 200mg (periodically taking another one) of r3061 total, I dont feel concentrated one bit all I feel is extremely tired, also my body feels fine my heart rate is normal. So it looks like R3061 doesn't work and I'm f***ed for midterms. By the way I dont suggest taking as much as I did, I am a long time adderal user and no almost everything regarding the pill. I also only did this as a test just to see if it works or not, because if i took 200mg of name brand I probably would be up for 3 days. Please let me know if theres any suggestions on how to get this to work as I have 3 midterms this week and can't get to see my doctor for at least 7 days

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I know exactly what you are talking about. I am 25 and i have ADHD, so i have been taking Adderall 20mg XR for 3 years. i would always fill my script at target and never had any problems. Until one day when i got it filled, instead of the orange capsules they were a neon blue color. when i asked wtf was going on, the pharmacist explained that their vendor had a new brand of generic(Actavis Elizabeth). Complete crap, it was like you said, a sleeping pill. So i called around to different pharmacies asking what brand they carried, what i found out is, the only company that make a good generic for Adderall 20mg XR is Global Pharmaceuticals. Teva Pharmaceuticals is the company that for some reason stopped making it, and sent me on a wild goose chase to find a proper generic. Just call around and ask if they carry Global Pharm. Adderall. I just had dosage up'd from 20mg XR to 30mg XR. Which i had to hunt down as well, but again the company is Global Pharm. and they are working just fine for me.

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I've tried adderall xr and it was by far the best and got my work done..the amphetamine salt ones kept me up but wasn't like the brand as far as I knew..these new ones I've tried saying r 3061 is as ineffective and wasteful of your money..and I took three 30mg just to try and nothing..which is bull..I even tried vyvanse or whatever from some friends and it kept me up but I did not feel any kind of stimulant..being back my adderall xr brand please!!!!

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Persistence prevailed, found that the insurance Company has put the name brand Adderral XR on their list for approved medications. I have been taking the Adderall XR 15 mg now up'd to 20 mg and there has been ....nothing, no changes. With this being said, Its worthless, all l do is stay up at night and nothing more. For my next prescription, I'm going to another pharmacy other than CVS to see if there will be any changes before concluding that these new orange 20 mg are a waist of time because they're not working and in the time I will find out who their manufactured by. Until next time, take care of yourselves and your health!

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I feel the same way about the 3061 adderall, they have white salt like stuff in the middle... I've been taking adderall for 8 years and these do NOTHING for me, I take my meds at 6 am and fall back asleep for an hour then good to go, these 3061 ones I could sleep til 10am and have!!'

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I was just recently given this new activus 30mg xr. Inside is all white beads. I have been taking the other generic version for 4 years and hasimilar worked great. I still had some of my old meds left from my last prescription so I wasn't keeping track of which days I used which pill. But I all of the sudden experienced extreme fatigue and lack of motivation to just get off the couch. I didn't realize until taking the new pill today that I was again drowsy. I decided to take a pinch more to see if I just needed an increase, bad decision, got even more tired. I still had my old prescription and had to be able to function at work so I took just a tad of the one that I knew worked. I started feeling a little bit more alert but ended up in a full blown panic attack (I have never had any kind of panic or anxiety in my life). I made it to work but could not fuction. Then I started feeling tight, short of breath, rapid heatbeat. Once I called myself down, I noticed serious pain in my lower left stomach area. I was sent home from work but could not get ahold of a pharmacist or my doctor. This is not ok. I am still a bit short of breath but need to find out what is going on.

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I've had the same problem with generic versions of medications (xanax especially). My advice is to calmly speak to first to your pharmacist & explain what is going on. If they refuse to order the generic form of medication that works for you then have your doctor write on the RX where it says "BRAND NESS.." put the name of the generic manufacturer. I use Rite Aid & had no problem fixing this problem at the pharmacy level. Granted I realize some pharmacists treat us like we are drug addicts & don't listen. Look up your pill imprint on the internet to find out what fillers are in the particular generic you have. Hope this helps.

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So I was prescribed adderall xr about two months ago for my ADHD. I had taken one of my sister in laws after the diagnosis, while I was waiting for my insurance to approve the prescription. it took about a week. My sister in laws script bottle was labeled 30mg amphetamine salts XR. They were orange capsules with white medication beads in them. My script was for 20mg so I just took part of her dose. It worked well, so when I got my prescription filled I was optimistic. Unfortunately I didn't get the same generic she did. I got an orange pill and the script was labeled dextroamp/amphet salts XR. The beads weren't white, they were tan in color. When I took this medicine, it was effective for about 3 hours and then I would crash and become completely exhausted. Occasionally I was nauseous and I also became very irritable as it wore off. I was so confused because when I had taken the other prescription it had lasted all day and I didn't get the aweful crash at the end. I did some research and concluded that my sister in laws prescription was manufactured by one company while I had received something different. I stuck out that first month and found that my local CVS carried the generic adderall that my sister in law had. When I filled it I received blue pills of 20mg Amphetamine Salts XR and the beads of medicine were white. This was much better. I didn't get as jittery and the action of the medication seemed much smoother. No nausea and no crash. No irritability and the effect lasted at least 8 hours. I can't believe there can be so much difference in the effects of a medication that is supposed to be the same across the board.
Through scouring the Internet, I believe that my first generic was manufactured by either Barr Labs, American Health Packaging or Global Pharmaceuticals. They all have a pill similar in appearance. Orange with Amphetamine salts and the dose written in black. My second prescription with the blue pill labeled R3060 is manufactured by Activis. I relaize that it was not prudent for me to try a prescription that wasn't mine so please don't focus on that. And even if I did get a little more than the 20mg dose the first time, the difference between the efficacy of the two prescriptions is very notable. Too notablw to be attributed to a few extra mg that I may or may not have gotten when I tried my sister in laws script. But I'm glad I did because how else would I have known that my medication was not working correctly. I would have assumed Adderall was not for me and moved on. This new script is working beautifully and I'm so glad that I didn't have to go through another trial and error with another prescription. I hope my story helps anyone else who may be having the same side effects with their adderall and thinking of changing. It may just be that you need a different generic.

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This is how the generic by TEVA is for me: makes me sleepy and and doesn't work at all for ADHD symptoms

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As I mentioned a few months ago, I experienced the same thing. It was not ok at all. I was freaking out. I told my doctor what happened and my next visit she wrote a note on there. I also explained to giant Eagle what happened. They kept assuring me that it was the same active ingredient and should work just the same. Well I knew that was BS. They ended up making a note of it and I have had no problems since. The brands that do work and are the same are TEVA and GLOBAL. Just stay the hell away from ACTAVIS. You can refuse it if they give you the wrong one.

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I have been on a generic Adderall XR30 (*says ER 30 on the bottle) that was half clear capsule / half orange) with an imprint of: M. Amphet Salts / 30 mg from the company TEVA and it has worked great.

A month ago the pharmacy gave me a different generic from Actavis (orange capsule : imprint 3061) and I am so drowsy all day long and feel unmotivated as all I want to do is sleep.

I talked to the pharmacist and he said it was all in my head. So after being on this for over a month I am constantly drowsy, so I did some research to see if anyone else also had this side effect. I now see that many are having the same side effect as I am and it's not just in my head.

Here is the printed non active ingredients of Actavis XR 30

Inactive Ingredients:

hydroxypropyl cellulose
sucrose
magnesium silicate
triethyl citrate
methacrylic acid - methyl methacrylate copolymer (1:1)
gelatin
ferric oxide red
titanium dioxide
ferric oxide yellow


methacrylic acid - methyl methacrylate copolymer (1:2)
corn starch
FD&C Blue No. 1
FD&C Blue No. 2
D&C Yellow No. 10
FD&C Red No. 40
ferrosoferric oxide
propylene glycol
shellac

*the ingredients that are on the lower part of the list are not in the TEVA generic, but only in the Actavis Generic 3061

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This is horrible they don't help me at ALL. I don't even think it's real meds

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Yeah, l been taking this brand of adderall for a month and I feel like going to sleep. I know before I was on the teva brand, I will be finding a pharmacy with teva brand next refill.

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Actavis is HORRIBLE. No effect whatsoever even after tripling my dose. I gave myself a U/A after 4 days of this and it was NEGATIVE for amphetamines. I knew something was wrong when I took it and wanted to go back to bed, but the drug panel just confirmed that they are peddling sugar pills and labeling them generic Adderall XR 30mg. I reported this to the FDA Medwatch system and would encourage anyone else to do so that has had this issue and also save your unused meds, as I did, in case the FDA wants to analyze them. Teva is the only other brand I have used and it works great :)

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Supposedly they are prescribing these new generic pieces of s*** because amphet. salts are being abused a lot. I took 30mg of this crap and fell asleep! Made me feel like I had taken vyvanse except the vyvanse makes my mind go a mile a minute and my body unable to move and emotional. I get a horrible headache every time I take this.

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chime inn some GENERIC FACTS....

been prescribed for over a year, dose, 30mg IR twice daily (max dose)

tried all generics except Sandoz which the mass amounts research I did, has best results overall generics, that's 2016 feedback.....

since the formula changes, and it's very obvious when they do to daily users, just have to ride the wave, don't be wreckless and fill a prescription period without research of which heeds best results, period if you F up, say bye to ur whole month till refill.....

just happend to me, i flipped s***, I'm still pissed and I'm already back on working addies...aurobindo orange to pink cor to teva footballs.....

I stuck with what worked, and this was in the last 11 months, pink cor pharma has had a good turn around the last 11 or so months, there's not much feedback to confirm this, and ive even for myself learned the hard way, got a refill last month. It wasn't cor pink. I look, there teva footballs. I didn't panic, was kinda pumped to try, as prior research stated teva footballs were #1 best pref generic PERIOD. uhhh, found out myself and further research, teva was on top effectiveness for a long time and cor pink sucked bad for a long time, well.....

now it's proven fact, cor pink & teva footballs are now reversed strength/effectiveness....2016....all I know is much feedback supported the exact opinion after taking them...

.....night and day difference, I was boiling pissed. I mean pisssed off, cuz u know those extra smart pharmacy techs know it all, how "generics work all the same" LOL! 55 minutes later, I'm kicked out of CVS and cops called.

(I felt so insulted) you're not gunna tell me when i've actually taken both an ur just stuck up ur own azz and book smart!!!

pink vs footballs are not even close to the same effects.... I'd bet my life on it, and anybody that knows real effective Adderall, then u fill teva trash footballs one 30 IR start yawning with cold chills, take a second 30 IR to be sure you're not placebo effecting.

so 60 mg Adderall making me yawn tired as hell, almost sick feeling, with cold chills, an I'm supposed to accept feeling this way for another 29 days cuz your sorry I feel this way? bro....haha wahh anyways.....

ANYbody thinking generic is all the same don't screw yourself by believing doctors or pharm techs...

a lot backs up what I'm saying, look it up. teva used be the best, now cor is, simple as that...actually sandoz is...which I haven't tried as it's very hard to come by, but has been most consistent in TONS of research for pref...

Choice of cor pink or teva football (october 2016) if u choose teva your screwed, no question.

and I always dose with 3,000 mg Antacid Calcium Supplement (10mins prior to dose) absorption rate is higher then normal, but teva is so ineffective it's absorbing worthless chems only.

#addiefactz

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You have to check he insides too. A place I dealt with once would take the amphetamine beads out and replace it with other medicine or a placebo. Constantly check the consistency of the product because everyone wants piece of the billion dollar business.

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