Clonazepam Ingredients Solco Brand Vs Actavis (Top voted first)

I have been taking TEVA clonazepam .5 for years and it was very effective! Now I hear that TEVA does not make it anymore. I was prescribed it via ACCORD mfg with very poor results... headaches, nervous, and more. I hear that the are also SOLCO and AVTIVIS mfg. I need some input re which one would be better... or any others. I heard that the inactive ingredients have a lot to do with it. I also know ACCORD is made in China and have heard some horror stories about their clonozepam. ANY INPUT GREATLY APPRECIATED!!

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Re: David (# 1)


My Pharmacy King Soopers told me that they could no longer provide clonazepam by the manufacturer Teva. Instead they gave me Accord Healthcare brand. I did give it a try for a month and a half. I didn't know what was going on with my body but it felt like I was going through withdrawal symptoms. I lost my appetite, I couldn't sleep, I had confusion, my irritability was through the roof. I had no patience for anyone or anything. Four times I got up and it felt like there was an earthquake and the whole room was shaking, of course it wasn't. It was me that was shaking and I was told by the ER position that I was actually having a mild seizure and asked if I had stopped taking my clonazepam. So I transferred the remainder of my prescription to another Pharmacy that did in-fact carry the Teva brand. My symptoms all went away and I feel much better. I don't know about Solco MFG and quite frankly I'm afraid to try anything else after what I went through with the Accord brand.

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Anna, I can totally relate. The same thing happened to me on Solco. I would not recommend it! It was horrible! What is happening to our drugs? I'm glad you found what you needed. My brand was disc. for good (Mylan) and I've been thru 4 different brands but none were as bad as Solco! Good luck to you.

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Hi Johnny,

You're spot on about the inactive ingredients having a lot to do with the medication efficacy. In Canada the drug labels actually refer to them as "non-medicinal ingredients" instead of stating "inactive", and I think this is because they do affect the quality of the medication without providing any therapeutic value.

The challenge with determining which manufacturer's brand or generic one should take is that because we all respond differently, the only way to know for certain is to at least try it and give the medication some sort of trial run to allow your body enough time to adjust to any inherent changes within the tablet itself.

Everyone's unique input and personal experiences do matter, but I don't think they necessarily portray how you yourself will react or respond, even to the same medication.

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I went through withdrawals on actavis after being on teva forever shuddered a seizure from it yesterday switched to solco in 20 min l8tr became a miracle drug for me that's the one i would go with i take it at night it definitely does it's job lol

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After Teva was discontinued i tried the Solco and did not like it. The Actavis is what i take now, it doesnt work as well as the Teva did, but it does work, just doesnt last as long. The good news is that Teva just brought back the 1 mg pills, so ask your pharmacy if they can order them.

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I tried the activas clonazepam, horrible, Solco is Qualitest, which is not bad. Teva was great. but not available anymore. I take 1 mg pills, and 2 mg pills, this time I got accord 1 mg and 2 mg solco. Hard to tell any difference, but they are different strengths.
Jim

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Re: Anna (# 2)

Solco is absolute crap having tried almost all generic brands of clonazepam, this brand is by far the worst and least effective, with the DEA law that only allows transfering medications once. This is a huge problem for me. Teva was and Accord is way better than this trash.

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Re: Connie (# 4)

I am on the Solco brand. It is not showing up in my blood work for epilepsy meds or in my swab/saliva test. My other meds do. What is going on? I feel like I’m in nothing. Though I have been on it for a while and I should not really feel it. Instead I just feel word and anxious and had one small breakthrough seizure.

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Re: Anna (# 2)

Correction: I meant to say I was told by the ER physician! Not ER position lol! Sorry about that, I forgot to spell check before posting.

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You. Are right Teva was bought out Atiivies.Now they are making gernic.

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You are so right it's horrible,talk to precription company go back on brand name made by Roche

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Re: Sam (# 7)

Actavis is the brand from hell i almost seized in the nail salon luckily i had seizure meds with me so i took that and it passed i had just switched from teva to actavis 2 weeks prior it slowly dawned on me i was in withdrawals once i went on solco within 20 min the symptoms went away. I'm so mad at teva for doing this to me and other patients first it was lamotrigine and now clonazepam

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I, too, used TEVA brand clonazepam for years and was suddenly switched to Activis with no explanation. I leaned that TEVA had bought Activis Pharmaceuticles, and was no longer producing clonazepam tablets - but distributing the Activis brand instead.

Further researcy showed that, at least for now, TEVA *does* still manufacture 1 mg cloazepam in the orally dissolving tablet. My pharmacist, nor my doctor knew this. I had to find it out myself and tell my doctor. You r doctor has to write the scrip for 'TEVA ODT' (orally dissolving tablets), and you might have to wait for your pharmacy to order them and get them in for you. Like I said, my pharmacist didn't even know about these - she just changed me to the new brand with no warning, bounced me back and forth between Accord and Activs - both utterly useless for me. Different people react differently, but if you have a problem with these, tell your doctor about it, and ask him to write you a new scrip for the TEVA ODT.

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Can anyone help me as to what brands are decent? Everyone seems to have a different opinion about Actavis and Accord and Teva. I am on Solco brand 1 mg 3 times a day. I have epilepsy, Meniere's disease and anxiety. The correct one for Meniere's is actually Valium. I did try it. However they could never get the dosage right.

So I went back on clonazepam and only take Valium when I am hospitalized with a bad or acute episode. And it was fine for a while. But now it’s not showing up in my lab work. It showing up as an insufficient amount to test positive for. WTH. I take it three times a day and I never miss a dose. Because if I miss a dose it’s possible that I could have a breakthrough seizure and with every seizure I have, I can get injured during seizures and my worst two seizures ever I went into cardiac arrest.

So I need to have this medication in my system. But my doctor thinks I’m not taking it because it’s not showing up in my lab work. Whether it be a saliva swab or blood draw.

I just don’t understand how this is possible. That must be absolutely very little active medication in the solco brand.

I’m worried that my doctor will take me off of it thinking I’m not taking it and possibly selling it on the street. Which is always a concern when you’re taking these medications and they don’t show up in your blood work. They think you’re selling them. I wouldn’t sell them because my life depends on it. I have been through almost every seizure medication. The only thing that works is having clonazepam adjunct medication. Plus the anxiety is absolutely terrible. It also keeps down the vertigo episodes to a dull roar.

However, they are not working anymore. I felt like this for the last six months and have one small seizure late spring. I’m really scared that I may have a big one.

This happened to me once before with a previous doctor, the brand wasn’t strong enough and it was not showing up in lab work. So they took me off of the medication. This was about 7 years ago. And within five months of being off of it, sure enough I had a grand mal seizure with cardiac arrest. But everyone on these threads has different suggestions. The only suggestion that I saw that look like a possibility was for the dissolvable. Because they have to be dispense as written. My question is will the dissolvable last as long in my system or are they going to have to start filling with the dosage again? This is just really mind-boggling that a drug could have no active medication in it or so little active medication that it doesn’t show up on labs. I have taken it daily for past 7 years. And then before that I took it for three years. The dosage has never really changed. It’s been tweaked a couple times but nothing major. But it’s always been between 2 to 3 mg per day.

But I am very concerned. I have my appointment coming up with my doctor September 14th. I don’t know what to do or what to ask him or how to find out which store carries which brand. In New York State, you cannot call out the pharmacy and ask them what brand of a controlled substance they carry. They are not allowed to answer that question. I can visit individual pharmacies and show them the script I have an ask them what they carry. But they have to see that I actively have a script before they will give out information on controlled medications that they keep in stock. I’m sure this is a safety precaution and prevents Pharmacy theft. And people from Pharmacy shopping. But I just don’t know what to do. I really need some advice and I am begging for some help. Should I just go back on the Valium. But that never really helped with my anxiety. They could never get the dose just right. I don’t know what to do and I don’t know what brand. I think my family owned pharmacy that I go to said they are carrying something new now and it is the accord brand . HELP. Need advice

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Re: suzysurf (# 20)
This is not the first I have read in this thread about Solcor brand not showing up in the blood. I have never read of any other brand having that problem. Many people have different brands that work best for them. For me, I have tried many different brands, but always got the best results with TEVA, until they stopped making their regular clonazepam when they bought Activis and started marketing their brand instead. I had been taking TEVA exclusively for 5 years, then suddenly one day they refilled the scrip with Activis, which proved ineffective for me, and my condition started to deteriorate. Then someone here mentioned that Teva does still make the Orally Dissolving Tablet version of clonazepam. Neither my doctor nor my pharmacist had ever heard of this, but when I told my doctor he wrote me a new prescription for 1 mg TEVA ODT clonazepam, and my pharmacist special ordered it for me. Not all pharmacies will honor a 'dispense as written' order for a generic, or special order them for you, but my local CVS pharmacist was happy to do it. Just ask your doctor to specify it on the prescription, and your pharmacist if he/she will order it for you.

One other thing: someone mentioned that because the ODT version is absorbed through the tongue, it is not as long lasting as the regular tabs, and I think that could be true true - I found myself needing a little extra, so my doctor increase my scrip from 1 mg 2x daily to 3x daily, and that has done the trick.

Back in June this year I called TEVA and a rep there told me that they'd had a lot of complaints, and they were planning on bringing back the regular tablets, hopefully by late Summer. Well that hasn't happened yet and who knows if it will, but in the meantime, if you have had success with Teva before, see if your doctor will write you for these ODT tablets, and if your pharmacist will order them for you. If they won't change pharmacies. it's a hassle, but it's worth it. Who knows, but depending on how many prescriptions you have with them, just the threat of changing pharmacies may change their minds if they refuse to help you.

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Re: suzpat68 (# 22)
I hope it works out ok. That is sure a lot of stuff going on.

I hope your Dr will help you. You might tell him you belong to an online discussion group about Clonazepam, and print out a copy of my prior reply to you that you can show him.

Let me know how it goes.

Arlis

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Re: Anna (# 2)

Wow reading your story I was cringing inside recalling the same exact thing although mine was with Valium 10 msg.. Walgreens actually got into some sort of national dispute with the manufacturer and I had to transfer it to CVS! I take a great deal of medications chronic things and I’ve been a Walgreens customer for dozens of years and I truly dislike cvs but I had to transfer the Valium because I wasn’t gonna go thru all that again!! It was a nightmare.. I was on very very high dose at the time so I went into seizures requiring an ambulance and a lengthy hospital visit.. the doctors all agreed after running tests; blood work and compared with a very recent previous blood test and it clearly showed the difference in “Inactive Ingredients” of Valium 10mg tablets in my system and I have a myriad of chronic conditions so that’s how they easily figured it out with me but I doubt that the majority of people described these types of medications don’t just happen to have a handy a one week old comprehensive blood panel test results that they could to compare it to blood taken after switching the two manufacturers of the pill into my body like you guys experienced as well.. my sister takes Klonopin and she goes through or went through the same thing that you guys did but luckily she didn’t suffer any she was able to take both but she chose to go find the pharmacy that had the other ones the first ones but maybe that was just in part of her illness who knows right? She’s happy now and hopefully you’re happy now I’m happy now Wallgreens got it back by the way after six months so now I can get everything there again and I hope that everything goes well for you two!!

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Re: suzysurf (# 23)
Pharmacists and many doctors will commonly say that all generics are exactly the same, but there are doctors and pharmacists that know this is just not so. My doctor when I lived in CA and my doctor here since I moved to Indiana told me that is a canned response, but all these generics are definitely NOT the same, and that the different brands definitely affect different people in different ways. Some doctors and pharmacists will admit it and work with you to find which is best for you, but if you are working with a pharmacy that doesn't acknowlege the differences, they may not be willing to get a specified brand for you, and will insist on giving you whichever brand they have in stock. You end up getting the brand changed from time to time, because when they order a new supply they typically get whatever brand is cheapest for them. This was my situation in CA, and I went through a lot of trouble taking my complaint further and further up the 'chain of command' at the pharmacy until I reached someone witht he compassion and authority to order my local branch to provide me the TEVA, and special order it for me so it was always on hand.

I was afraid when I moved to Indiana I would have to go through the same ordeal, but my local CVS apparently had a contract with TEVA, and they always gave me TEVA from the first time I filled my scrip there for almost three yearsall the way up to a few months ago, when TEVA stopped making it, and I got changed first to Accord brand (crap, IMHO), then to Activis (also crap). but when I found out about the Orally Dissolving Tablets, and had my doctor write them for me, the pharmacy happily got them for me. So I am lucky there.

If your pharmacist is telling you there is no such thing as TEVA ODT clonazepam, she is either ignorant, or straight-up lying to you. My doctor had never heard of them, but he quickly found them on line and wrote me the scrip.. The pharmacist had never heard of them, either, but having that prescription from my doctor, she had no choice but to look them up.

If you have a pharmacist who's peddling that 'all generics are identical' line, you'll have to find a more reasonable pharmacist, or if your pharmacy is part of a chain, go to their website, make your complaint to corporate, and try your luck with them.

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Re: Suzysurf (# 30)


I never heard of Par before either. I hope it works for you and they keep you on it. That switching between brands every few months is murder. I have Medicaid, which every state runs differently. Most times you can't get a name brand from them unless there is no generic alternative, or you have a doctor who will advocate for you to get the name brand. As far as specific generic brands, that just depends on the pharmacy. If your doctor writes for it and your pharmacy will order it for you, that's great. I've lived in several different states and I have learned they are under no obligation to do so.

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Re: ArlisT (# 31)

Exactly. They do not have to order it. But because I have use this pharmacy for 15 years. They will even deliver to your house. And when I used to get seizures all the time and couldn’t drive, they would deliver my medications. But they are really good about knowing what I need and what brands I need. There’s another medication that I take where there are two generics. One is really tiny and one is much larger. And I found a larger one to be much more effective plus it takes longer to dissolve as well. And it just works better. So they always make sure they have it for me... And it’s one of those companies that keeps changing names. They used to be Westwood. Or I think they were something else before Westwood. But so far so good with the Par ODT. I’ll be having labs done to see if they show up or not. I guess that will be the real truth. The other medication that I mentioned that dissolves, the one brand shows up at a high level in my system where as the other brand does not. It shows up but not at the same level.

But, pharmacists can be real jerks sometimes. They don’t have to tell you anything over the phone, they don’t have to tell you even if they have a medication in stock or they carry it. Unless they have your prescription on file. I literally had to drive around to different pharmacies to ask what brand they carried and they would only tell me after I showed them my prescription bottle. And then they told me that that was a big mess and that all generics were exactly alike. I said well then why isn’t it showing up in my blood work and labs. I said they’ve done all sorts of laboratory work.

Urine, swab and blood. It showed up and none of them. I said how was that possible. They said well you’re not taking them. I said I do to take them because if I didn’t take them I’d be on the floor. And they said well we can’t help you. So yeah they can be real jerks. My doctor really didn’t believe me at first. But he was OK with switching medications to the ODT. He just assumed I wasn’t taking it. I said listen dude I said I can’t not take it. But I’ll let you know how the labs come out.

Thank you Arlis.

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