Teva Lorazepam Reviews (Page 9) (Top voted first)

I'm seeking insights and reviews on Teva Lorazepam and its comparison with Leading Pharma's version. There's a notable divide in user experiences. Some report Leading Pharma Lorazepam as being less effective or having no effect, possibly due to variations in the active ingredient, leading to side effects or adverse reactions in certain cases.

While there are those who recommend Teva Lorazepam for its efficacy, others find Leading Pharma's version more suitable. Unfortunately, I haven't had the opportunity to try Teva Lorazepam since it's not available in my area – no local pharmacies dispense it.

My experience with other brands, post the discontinuation of Qualitest, hasn't been successful in finding a comparable alternative. I'm particularly interested in understanding how Teva Lorazepam and Leading Pharma's lorazepam differ in terms of effectiveness and user satisfaction.

If you've had experiences with either or both of these medications, your reviews would be incredibly valuable. Any insights into their efficacy, side effects, or overall satisfaction would greatly help me and others in our decisions.

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Re: Larry (# 380)

teva makes me sluggish and nauseous, my body is not comfortable, my anxiety doesn't go away. it might work for some people but not for me. aurobindo is hard to find. I don't get updated availability info. maybe others have got the info and can share it here

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Re: Lex (# 382)

Hi Lex,

I’m sorry for your reactions to Teva. I had a horrid reaction to Leading; for me it gave me panic attacks and exponentially increased my anxiety. It literally was worthless and I threw away an entire bottle.

I hope we can all find relief from this reality of subpar generic benzos.

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Re: Henry (# 389)

we have the aurobindo here in vegas, was looking forward to trying as all the others are trash, was sadly disappointed with my first dose, felt sleepy but could not fall asleep til 4:00 in the morning, not good. Can any one out there tell me if it takes a couple of days to acclimate to this product or, if it's no good the first time, forget it?

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Re: joe (# 396)

Might be your body needs to adjust to it. For me it just calmed me down. Put me back at ease like the original Ativan did. Could be the one your on now has your body chemistry all worked up. But for me it's a instant change. Like I've said it's like someone flipping a switch. Give it a chance to get in your system and hopefully you'll ease into it. Wish you well Joe.

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I can tell you all that I've been on Leading brand over a year if not longer. Sure would be cool if the pharmaceutical companies could make up their minds what they plan on doing for us patients. Cause I don't know if any of you have ran into this problem taking Leading brand has caused you the need to take extra to balance out. Which then causes that phone call or Pdoc visit conversation that's not always in ones benefit. I'm tired of this rodeo that's out of our control. Thinking I might have to find a PCP or Pdoc outside of the military that's not anti benzodiazepenzine. The stress that is cause by many docs tripping about being on this medication is just ridiculous. Even worse are the pharmacist questioning our docs why are you writing these scripts. Y'all know what I'm talking about here. Yes I totally understand the legalities. Just is unfair y'all.

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Re: Jibbs55 (# 399)

Thanks for asking, wish it was good news but its not. It made me a little tired which is ok but I laid in bed for 6 hours unable to sleep. I finally fell asleep but woke up 3 hours later. What's interesting is I went to bangkok recently and got some lorazepam from the hospital, and like Aurobindo, made me tired but would not allow me to fall asleep.

If any of you have had the same experience please reply, the only one I haven't tried is leading which I recently got ahold of. I know there's not much good news here but the only thing that worked for me was Actavis and a lot of people said that this didn't work for them. Anyway, still searching, even thinking of trying Valium.

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Re: joe (# 400)

Insurance won't cover name brands

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Re: Joe (# 402)

Funny seems the US has the same attitude about what they give us. Highly doubt we're getting the correct amount of active ingredient in most of our meds. One of the things that bother me is the active ingredients that we get come from China. They have no love loss for us. Folks getting rich while we suffer.

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Re: Sgonedes1977 (# 411)

While I agree taking away this medication is cruel, I'm thinking me saying it's not wise to drink while using benzodiazepines triggered your response. Whether I get what you said it's still not something anyone should try. Most of us are in the same boat here taking a lorazepam.

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Problems with name brand Ativan

I switched from Actavis to the name brand and did OK-ish. I noticed when the lot changed over from one expiring in 4/23 to one expiring in 11/24 I did a bit worse but hung on, and by then was taking Zyprexa as needed which helped take the edge off the benzodiazepine tolerance symptoms.

The pharmacy, without me realizing it, reverted back to giving me the one expiring 4/23 for a month, and I had been eating and sleeping unusually well for me and barely taking Zyprexa. I hadn't even noticed the lot number change on the bottle.

I only noticed this month when it switched back to the 11/24 expiration lot (lot 22B004P) I had nearly instant withdrawal: lack of sleep, lack of eating, and I went back on the Zyprexa and still haven't been eating. I wish I had kept some of the older lot to compare with but had used it all up, but I am quite sure it was that change. The pharmacy is supposed to put medicine from different lots in different bottles but overlooked that and put 10 from the previous lot (the 4/23 lot) in with the other 80. So I have 10 of the old ones, but don't know which is which. In the mean time been taking some old generic Aurobindo I had and not doing great on it. Bausch was not helpful at all. I wrote to ask if they knew if they had switched manufacturing sites or API suppliers or if they could assist with a replacement. They are incredibly rude for a product that costs $3,800 per month. I don't know what else it could be. I was thinking my lorazepam issues were sort of over for now. I wasn't waking up needing to take it right away. I'd go get tea and breakfast first. I noticed I was stretching out the time between doses. Was eating well, sleeping well. And I go from that to horrible symptoms. I wonder if the older one I was getting was when they were making it in Germany or they're both from their factory in Canada. I used to get the boxes and manufacturer bottles with my prescriptions so that I could tell, but I don't anymore so I have no idea and Bausch won't even answer a simple question like that. You can't even tell from the prescribing information sheets anymore. And the pharmacies are too overwhelmed to answer questions (the ones near me are so overwhelmed and overstaffed they shut down the drive-thru's and close early and turn off their phones). It seems like I was on an unusually good lot and got used to it and now am having bad withdrawal again. The difference in expiration date is 19 months between the two lots. In 19 months during the pandemic, I imagine they had supply chain issues and likely switched API suppliers.

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Wonder if any of you have watched this benzo hit piece "documentary" on Netflix yet? These clowns really need to spend more effort addressing the fentanyl crisis which kills over 50k people in the US a year instead of worrying about benzodiazepines. /rant

https:/­/­www.imdb.com/­title/­tt23556804

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Re: Michael (# 419)

Institutional investors include the following organizations: credit unions, banks, large funds such as a mutual or hedge fund, venture capital funds, insurance companies, and pension funds. Institutional investors exert a significant influence on the market, both in a positive and negative way.Oct 23, 2022

"Institutional Investers" owns Teva and Watsons. It's about money, not care!
Owned by people who don't care! It's money in their pocket. Politicians are in on it! I hate to say it, but we are all going to have to find a good alternative.

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Re: Ajay (# 427)

Ajay, I'm not sure what or if the company has made any changes. Like I said I've been on Leading brand well over a year. Maybe you could call them. Hope that helps.

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Re: Lou (# 2)

I am also convinced Leading Pharmaceuticals Lorazapam 1 mg is a placebo. I've been taking 1 mg since around 1984 for anxiety to help me sleep and was recently changed to Leading. It does absolutely NOTHING. I haven't slept for 48 hours and I'm exhausted.It seems to be giving me extremely dry throat.I get my meds from CVS and there was no warning of any change. It is very exhausting. I will try and call them. Reading these messages gives me some peace. I didn't know what was happening. I'm 71 yrs old. I need my sleep as we all do. I will check with CVS tomorrow and try to get to the bottom of this. On the back of my 1 mg pill it is marked with 1mg and EP|905 .

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Re: cat714 (# 441)

Have you had any relief, especially sleep? Both Leading and Teva for me were complete garbage. The only generic that ever worked for me was Watson and someone on here said even though Actavis bought Watson and then ultimately Actavis was bought by Teva, Watson really hasn’t been the same for at least 8-10 years. When I tried Leading it increased my anxiety and Teva gave me an allergic reaction.

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Teva seemed okay when i first tried it. But on my 2nd prescription (2mg) 3x day.....it seemed different. I'm pretty sure i read it was made in Israel. But last time i had it renewed pharmacist told me it was now made in the Czech Republic. It could be my imagination but it just doesn't seem as strong.... i've been taking lorazepam for 40 years.

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Re: Henry (# 471)

No, I had complained to my doc about generic lorazepam I've taken for decades were just not as good as they were with the original Watson. He kind of said its either my imagination or anxiety is breaking through original dose I've taken for over 30 years....until next visit when 95% of his patients on lorazepam said the same thing. So he put me on 1mg generic (Accord) klonopin at night....it worked ..um okay....I had been waking up with high heart rates after REM sleep for about the same tome Watson sold its goods to Actavis. The clonazepam helped but the high hr was still there.....but when local pharms switched to Teva... i liked the color (I'm an artist) but never thought it was a different manufacturer....until the high heart rate was waking me up 6 or 7 times a night...when i looked it was Teva.....trying to find more Accord is getting futile.

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Lex (# 472) --

You probably read this before but some of the locally own pharmacies can order the brand that you want directly through vendors or their warehouses. Whether they'll do it is the next thing. Being they are cracking down on benzodiazepines many may be reluctant to do so. At one time I had no problem getting this done. Times are changing y'all. Wish y'all good health and peace!

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Re: Lex (# 475)

Probably more than any generic out there.

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Re: Richard H (# 472)

“ until next visit when 95% of his patients on lorazepam said the same thing. ”

Ha! I had a similar experience back in ‘19-‘20 with my doctor. All in my head…then every lorazepam patients head. Must be mass hysteria :)

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