Actavis Amphetamine

my dr rx amphetamine salts combo 30 mg bid. I usually use another brand but i was given actavis and its making me sleepy and not sure if its the brand or im ill or not working as should. Teva worked well but cant ever get in stock. any suggestions

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Just got the same thing today from SAMs and it's causing me to be sleepy. All I want to do is go to bed I don't know if I need to get use to it or does this brand just suck and next month try to find the Barr brand I hear target has it still

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If you're both experiencing this, then I can only guess that this one might be a little lower in the amount of the active ingredient than the other. They do have a plus or minus 20% window to work with, that doesn't really add up to a lot when you think of the milligrams in a medication, but it can be enough of a difference to affect some people.

Your body will usually adjust, after a week or so, since the differences are slow slight, however, if you continue to have problems, you should speak to your doctor, they may need to prescribe it so you can only be given the name brand, rather than a generic, in the future to avoid this problem.

The FDA classifies this medication as being a stimulant that is most commonly used to treat ADHD and narcolepsy. It carries the risk of being habit forming and its typical side effects may possibly include nausea, dizziness, headache, irritability and anorexia.

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I also just received Actavis medication and am experiencing horrible results. The medication is useless and does not work at all, in fact it does more harm than good. Actavis should be reported to all authorities and should not be allowed to distribute medication to the public. There is no active ingredient in the medication and a complete placebo would be better. Not only does their medication not work but it generates unwanted and possibly harmful side effects. People should ban together and prosecute companies that make money off such a poor and harmful product into society.

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Actavis and Novartis which has now bought teva and Cobalt just released generic Adderall xr in Canada. We have NEVER had the IR formulation here.

This new generic Adderall Xr (says ACT-Amphetamine/Dextromaph XR mixed is supposed to be exactly the same as the extended release Adderall and I'm telling you they are not. I tried the actavis because the government pays for my medication and I have no choice. I'm given the generic or I pay the difference out-of-pocket. This is the first time a generic drug has totally had the opposite effect on me. I was hungry all the time! I was nervous, depressed and of course my focus was all over the place. I filled out an adverse drug reaction form and now I get the name brand again the (real Adderall XR from shire)

Apparently they made this deal in 2014 and as of 2016 or a few months earlier sold the patent only to Novartis company and should be the exact same ingredients and fillers but it isn't, you can tell that because even when you open the capsule none of the beads have the same color because the generic ones are filled with rough white jagged pieces. Not orange beads! Not that it matters but even the capsules are different colors like the 20 mg for example is blue and said something like R 3306. For a week until they fixed it I couldn't even leave the house and most of my other medications are generic. I think the issue has to do with time really because generics do not have to have the same time release mechanism, that's why all the kids started acting differently once concerta switched to generic Mylan methylphenidate XR.

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I am a 36 year old woman. I was diagnosed with ADHD in 2009, (although looking back I don't know how anyone missed the signs). I have taken Adderall since 2009 at the same dose with no problems. Until somewhere in 2014, I started getting the blue pill. Didn't think much of it except for the money I was saving. But at some point, I noticed I was losing my focus and becoming more impulsive. A couple of times I took two doses in a day because I thought I had forgotten it. Eventually I was taking more and more and achieving less and less. In hindsight, I should have talked with my Dr. about it, but I was afraid he would stop my prescription. At this point I was physically addicted. By 2016, I was going through my 60 EA 20mg pills and 30 EA 25 mg pills in a matter of a couple of weeks. There were days I easily took 150- 200 mg a day. I was still able to fall asleep fine, and I managed to gain 40 lbs in 2 years. The summer of 2016, I started researching, and realized most of this began when I started taking the Actavis brand. I talked to my Dr, and we began trying other meds. I have been on Focalin, Vyvanse, and a nonstimulant. My body has recovered from the physical withdrawal of the Actavis Junk. I am only on Zoloft now, but I am missing Adderall terribly, or I should probably say I miss the me on Adderall. If I can never have that clarity again, I would have been better off not knowing how good it could feel to feel 'normal'. There is a whole lot more to my story, I just wonder if I'm alone? Out of concern I started going to rehab because of the addiction side of this and the problems it caused.

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