Clonazepam Ingredients Solco Brand Vs Actavis (Page 2) (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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Hi, I had a similar problem. I take Clonazepam for epilepsy, Meniere's disease and Anticipatory and generalized anxiety disorders. I have labs drawn every two months. They do a cheek swab, a urinalysis and back up bloodwork. For the past three test the blue pills which are all made by Soclo and Accord, have not shown up in my labs. It showing up that I am not taking them. I take them three times a day. The last test was weird it showed that there was an enough to test level. But the previous two showed that I had none in my system at all. Which is impossible if I am taking it three times a day. I talk to every pharmacist and they said that generics are all the same and that the only reason that it would be coming up Negative was I wasn’t taking it and possibly selling it. Pharmacists can be very judgmental. I did speak with my own pharmacy, they are privately owned/family on Pharmacy. They said they were getting a new brand called accord. I checked it out And it showed it was the same manufacture. So I asked my doctor about it. He didn’t really believe it either but he said what he would do would switch me to the orally disintegrating tablets so now I am taking the 1 mg ODT. There was some change. I did start to feel better. But, they are still not as strong as the yellow ones and they wear off much quicker. And the reason I am on the clonazepam versus the Valium which is more indicated for Meniere’s disease Is there have been many problems getting the dosage right on the volume. The same problems exist with this medication too. They’re really bad generics out there so it’s almost impossible to get a similar dosage or an equivalent dosage to that of Clonazepam.

When I was first diagnosed with the vertigo disease, they tried switching me but it was unsuccessful. They kept having to up the dosage because it just wasn’t working. The only time the Valium ever worked for me was when I was giving it in the hospital.

My suggestion to you is to have your doctor write it for the orally disintegrating tablets. Or ODT. And your pharmacy should fill it and most insurances will pay for this.

Mine did and it has made a difference. But, still it’s not as good as the yellow ones that I used to be on. I don’t know which yellow generics I was on but they seem to work much much better. But at least the ODT is better than the blue ones. However they don’t seem to last as long in my system. But at least I don’t feel seizureish anymore. But the anxiety is still pretty bad. But it’s still better than the blue ones. I suggest you give it a try. I hope this is helpful.

When it doesn’t show up in your labs for six months, that’s a problem. That tells me that would’ve been taking is basically garbage. Anyway let me know how you make out. I would be interested to see What people think about the orally disintegrating and the efficacy. And also what pharmacies or what pharmacy chains do carry the yellow generic tablets. They have always seem to work better even if they are generic. Maybe it’s the blue dye that disagrees with me. I’m not sure. But I’d be interested to see how you make out. So please get back to me.

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Re: suzysurf (# 36)

Did you know that the regular TEVA Clonazepam 1 mg tablets are back on the market? On another forum I belong to, several people have stated they have been able to get them since late September. I still have almost a full prescription of the ODTs, but before they run out I am going to see my Dr and ask to be put back on the regulars.

I, too, find the ODTs seem not to be as effective. I mean, they are in the short run, it's just the effect is not as long-lasting. Dr wrote me for an extra on in the middle of the day. I hope you can work it out. It's not easy to get these things in the right balance, and a cooperative Dr helps. It sounds like yours is giving you difficulty, and asking him to switch you again so soon might be hard, but you should try. Tell him (or her) that you appreciate him working with you on this and explain how the regular TEVA used to work fine for you, and these ODTs wear off too quickly. He should want to help you. If not, you may need to find a Dr who understands how debilitating anxiety can be. Maybe a psychiatrist. First, find out if your pharmacy can get regular TEVA clonazepam 1 mg tablets. Apparently, they aren't available everywhere yet.

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I don't understand what everyone is talking about. I've been in clonazepam for well over a decade. yes even when the Norman teva were out back in the day they weren't the best, qualitest was. I couldn't find qualitest anymore one month and found they were remaking the old teva. I took it for several months and it was meh... ok. this month however I went to get my tevas and opened my bottle to find blue pills that looked like the qualitest. I called and found out that solco bought out qualitest and kept their logo but not the formula. I found it was solco, one I never heard of. I gotta tell you guys, it blew me away! comparable to Roche if you ask me. especially sublingual it's amazing. so don't just let other people's comments effect how your pills are going to treat you. these comments can have a placebo line effect. the solco are way better than actavis-teva, mylan, accord, and any others out there. I will get solco over actavis-teva again.

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Re: Melissa (# 8)

I completing agree with you. solco took me by surprise how strong it was compared to all others!

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Re: Eric (# 10)

Thanks for the input. Activis has worked for me and I won't take Solco or Accord going forward.

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TEVA is considering bringing back the old clonazepam formula per a call to them on 4/1/19.

ALL CALL 888-838-2872 (option #3 then option #5) for customer service to demand they bring it back asap.

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Re: Jen (# 13)

Hi Jen. I received a call from customer service at the number noted below on 4/1/19 that they were going to bring back the old formula clonazepam in 3-4 (I don’t know what that means).

WE ALL need to keep contacting them. The customer service guy told me to email TEVA at:

[email protected] to complain about Actavis, ask for the old formula TEVA back, and ask about a timeframe.

Please post updates. Thank you!

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Re: Jen (# 13)

Keep emailing them ALL!

"Thank you for contacting Teva Pharmaceuticals Customer Service Department. We have recently been notified that we are hoping to have the original Teva Clonazepam available within approximately the next 3 to 4 months, mid to late summer. Since the product has been unavailable for many months, it will need to be reintroduced. The best way to be notified when this product is available is to go to our tevagenerics.com website. On the main page is a box that says ‘Get Informed’. Putting your email address in this box will notify you any time a new product launches with Teva. That will be the most efficient way for you to be notified when this product becomes available.

I hope this information has been helpful in addressing your concerns. Please feel free to call us at 1-800-545-8800 or email at [email protected] if you have any additional questions.Thank you very much for contacting us and please enjoy the rest of your day.

Best regards,

Customer Service
Tel: 1.800.545.8800 (option 3, then option 5)
[email protected]
tevapharm.com"

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Re: Klonz (# 15)

Good work....wouldn't that be great.

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I called TEVA today, 6/19/19, and according to the customer service rep, TEVA is bringing back their clonazepam tablets, probably by the end of this Summer, although she had no exact date. In the meantime, TEVA does still manufacture clonazepam in orally dissolving tablets. My pharmacist nor my doctor knew about this. I only found it out by accident online, but if you are having problems with the other brands tell your doctor about it and ask him to write you anew scrip specifying TEVA ODT (orally dissolving tablets). You might have to wait a bit for your pharmacy to order them for you - as I said, my pharmacist had never even heard of them. Also, your pharmacy may or may not get special orders for you, but my local CVS is very good about it, and I don't even have private insurance - I'm on Medicaid. It's worth trying - especially if you've had success with TEVA, and other brands are not effective for you.

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Re: ArlisT (# 21)

Thank you for the reply and advice. It’s been a really big worry of mine since having a small seizure this spring and around the same time and not showing up in my labs. My labs are only every three months. And I’ve been on this brand for about nine months. So the timing is about right.

I have been going through extra anxiety the last six months. My daughter had anorexia and has PTSD related panic and anxiety. My 40-year-old sister was diagnosed with an on treatable cancer this past year. I fell down the stairs and broke my arm. This year has just been plagued with bad luck. So the stress has been really really up there. But still I was doing OK for the most part. But the fact that it’s not showing up on my labs tells me that this is why you’re part of the reason why am feeling super super anxious all the time. As I’m not really getting any active medication.

I just found it really hard to believe that there could be so little medications that it did not show up in a lab. To me that is mind boggling and a real disservice to the patients that need the medication. I know it is a benzodiazepine and many people are against these medications. But there is a reason for them. They do help people and they do prevent seizures which if you know anything about, any seizure can kill you at any time. There is a thing called sudden death Re: seizures. It is every seizure patients worst fear. They will be left a non-productive citizen that cannot function on their own. So thank you for the information. If you hear anything else please let me know. You’re the first response I have gotten.

I will get back to you when I see my doctor Friday. We’ll see what he says. I am hoping that he will believe me for the reason it not showing up in lab work. But some doctors don’t believe stuff like that. Some do I’ll see which kind this one is.

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Re: ArlisT (# 21)

I went to talk to the pharmacy to find out what brand they carry and show them the script that I have and she told me that there’s no such thing as they’re being an active medication in the Generics. She said there’s another explanation for not showing up in my lab work she said all of the generics are exactly alike. So then I went across the street to CVS and they told me the same exact thing. I was like WTH. I’m not crazy. I know how my labs read and I know that I take them three times a day! So I don’t know if I will have any luck getting anywhere with either the doctors or the pharmacies. Because no one believes me..

These people have their heads in the sand.

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Re: Lori (# 25)

Thanks for the support. I do use a private pharmacy. I need to speak to the head pharmacist then. They told me they got some new Brandon but I didn’t recognize the name and it sounds like it comes from a foreign country so it’s probably garbage. My appointment is this Friday where I have to try to explain to my doctor and hope that he understands why it’s not showing up on my blood work. There’s even some doctors that don’t believe this. Because it’s not showing up in my blood work and my cheek swab to make sure I’m not taking other medications like Xanax or anything like that. So it showing up in neither .

My other prescription meds are showing up. So he just thinks I’m not taking it. The only reason I went to Rite Aid was I was in the store so I brought my prescription up to the counter and asked the lady what brand they carried and told her my situation and she was terrible. She was so mean to me. Saying that all generics are exactly alike and that I just have to tough it out. And that they don’t special order for anything or anyone. I live in New York State, so it’s not like I can call around to Pharmacy‘s. They cannot give Information about controlled substances over the phone. They can tell you if you have an active prescription there at that particular pharmacy. But they can’t tell you if you don’t. So I can’t call every pharmacy in the area and ask them what brand of clonazepam they carry. But I’m a mess. I feel like garbage.

I can however drive all over the Tri-County area and bring my prescription in. But my husband thinks that’s foolish. He thinks it’s a waste of my time. And he thinks that I shouldn’t be on this medication anyway. He thinks I’m on too many medications. He does not believe in medicine. And he actually wrongly believed that it was probably medicine to begin with that caused my seizures. When it wasn’t, it was full-blown eclampsia. That’s when I started having them. And then about six years ago I started getting vertigo and that got worse and worse and worse. I’ve tried taking Valium for that. But they can never seem to get the dosage right where I get any actual relief. Either that or I’m getting Bunk medication. And I’m worried too that if my doctor writes for the orally dissolving or ODT, that they won’t be able to get the dosage right and he’ll insist that the 3 mg mdd ODT a day is the same as 3 mg mdd tablets a day.

Which because they’re so quickly acting I really doubt they are. I’m assuming they don’t last as long in your system. Let me know if you know anything about that, if you know anything about what the doctor should be doing if I’m on 3- 1mg. Tablets a day of clonazepam, would be just switch me to 3 -1 mg. ODT??

It’s just a scary thing. Anyway thank you for replying.

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Re: ArlisT (# 24)

I will let u know what he says on Friday. I am going to ask for the 1 mg orally disintegrating tablets. Or ODT. However I don’t know if that will be equivalent and dosage to the 1 mg tablets I am supposed to be taking three times a day. I do know they are immediate release so I don’t know if they last as long in your system. Or if they will leave me covered. But I guess anything is better than what I am on since it’s not showing in my labs, it basically means I’m not covered at all. I had what they call missed eclampsia, when I had my second daughter. It was a full moon and 40 babies were born in a little city hospital that weekend. Lots of babies came a few weeks early. So Sophia was born a few weeks early but she was perfectly formed. But I could not keep down food because I had a hyper emesis which is where you vomit throughout the whole pregnancy. So she just wanted to come out and be fed I imagine. But she did come home with me. But my blood pressure at the hospital was 205/105 and I only weighed 108 pounds. They told me to lay on my left side and the next thing you know I’m being discharged. I went home and about 3 weeks after discharge I had my first tonic clonic seizure.

Then I had one once a year for the next few years always the same time and night.

And then I got the Meniere’s disease and vertigo out if the blue. But my father had it so that maybe why. But this is not the first time this is happened. About 6 to 8 years ago they took me off clonazepam because it wasn’t showing up on my blood work so my doctor thought I was selling it. Three months off of the closet pan and only on Vimpat, I had another seizure. So I always need that closet pan for a second seizure medication. My psychiatrist prescribes it. Because it can also be used for anticipatory anxiety and generalized anxiety. Which I have both of due to the medical issues. Now mind you I sound like I’m really sick, but I have a job and I teach school, I’ve raised two beautiful daughters. I have a wonderful husband. I’m not some so sick that I’m strung out on meds.

But I also have to take care of myself. And that means taking my medication as prescribed. And if I have one more seizure, I will lose my license for good. But I will let you know how it goes. Hopefully he will Write a script for the clonazepam ODT. I know my insurance will fill it. Because my daughter was on it. So I know they will fill it. The question is will he write it when he’s thinking I’m not taking it at all. That’s my big concern. But I’ll let you know how it goes thanks for write a script for the clonazepam ODT. I know my insurance will fill it. Because my daughter was on it. So I know they will fill it. The question is will he write it when he’s thinking I’m not taking it at all. That’s my big concern. But I’ll let you know how it goes amd thanks for all the support that I’ve been getting from the community forum. ??

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Re: Lori (# 25)

Hey Lori, I thought I would update you.
My doctor switched me to the 1 mg ODT. However it’s a brand I’ve never heard of so I have no idea if this is going to work or not. After being on practically nothing because it wasn’t showing up on my lab work, this feels kind of week but I’m still feeling some thing. So I’m not sure. The brand is Par pharmaceutical. The wafers are extremely tiny. There about half the size of a 1 mg tablets that I used to take. I mean the diameter is less than 1/4 of an inch. And I know they have to put fillers in the orally disintegrating so that way it works. I don’t know if you’ve had any experience with these. Let me know. And I will keep you posted as to if they work.

I was able to fall asleep last night for the first time in a long time. But they really don’t seem to be doing much else. But it could take me a couple days to get back to normal again. Who knows.

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Re: suzysurf (# 28)

Arlie, he switched me to the 1 mg ODT. The weird thing is I had a horrible ocular migraine on Friday night. And then picked up my script the next day. Then had a horrible headache for two days. I think the migraine those started because I wasn’t on really any medication. The doctor really didn’t believe me that there’s differences in generics. He said it’s possible. My pharmacy ( I use an Independent family own pharmacy) They believe me. However my insurance will not pay for a dispense as written brand name. Because they said there’s no real proof that there’s differences between generic and brand-name. But usually with epilepsy they will make that exception. That way you’re not switching between different generics. So they really do know deep down but they just don’t want to tell people.

But so far, so good, I’m starting to feel better. The ODT I am on is made by Par pharmaceutical. It’s still not as good as the yellow tablets that I used to take. But it’s much better than the blue ones. Both the Soclo, And my only other option was Accord.

I will let you know what happens when I have my next labs done on October 9. They usually take a couple days to come in but I will let you know if they show up on my loves or not. I’m assuming they will.

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I was having the same problem. They take the medication for epilepsy and anxiety and Meniere’s disease. It was not showing up in my lab work, neither the swab, U/A, and back up blood work. My past three tests all came up negative. Why as for where as my other medications show the proper levels. And it was ever since they switched me to the blue pills which are both made by Soclo and Accord. Apparently accord is the same as the Soclo. I had my doctor switched me to the 1 mg 0DT or orally disintegrating tablets. And I now feel much better. We will see what my next lab shows. And hopefully it will show that I am taking the medication and that it is showing up on my labs. I couldn’t figure out why I wasn’t feeling right. Why I always felt pre seizurish. And the anxiety was just through the roof. I’ve been on the ODT for a week now and I’m starting to feel much much better. It doesn’t last quite as long in your system. But clonazepam has a very long half life so it should be fine with a direct switch. Talk to your doctor about it. Also it does get into your system faster because it dissolves under the tongue. Just give it a try. And many people had this problem where it doesn’t turn up in their labs if they’re taking the blue made pills. B****, I’ll really come under the same maker. There’s also a link someplace in here that shows you each medication and an exactly what the fillers are. Also with the ODT there are only a couple of companies that make this version of clonazepam so the chances of you getting something that’s basically placebo or 20% active ingredient are slim to none. Just give it a try. My thoughts are with you. Just because I went through the same exact thing. Let me know how it goes.

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Re: ArlisT (# 31)

It’s gotten ridiculous. And it’s not just with this medication. Clonazepam seems to be the worst. But diazepam and also has a problem. That’s the actual medication I’m supposed to be on. But they can never get the dosage right with the generics. Anyway, what I just heard on the news the other day was drugs have to be within 20% of not the original drug formula but other generics. So that means you could keep on taking the Generic with the lowest active ingredient and go 19% below that. Then the next person can go 19% below that till eventually you’re getting a freaking sugar pill. I still don’t feel great Arlis. The ODT, does not seem to last as long in my system. I went to a red cross blood donation today. And they said that my pulse rate was really high. They asked if I was really anxious or having heart difficulties. And I just said it was white coat syndrome or whatever, I said I was afraid of needles.
But the fact is, I have a feeling that once again there’s very little medication in my system for my pulse to be that high. My blood pressure was low, my pulse was not. So basically the 1 mg ODT doesn’t really work. I don’t know what to do. I’m going to go to Walmart this weekend and see if they carry the yellow pills and try Price chopper which also has a pharmacy and see if they carry the yellow brand. Because the yellow ones always seem to work just a little bit better than the blue ones. At least for me they do.

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Re: ArlisT (# 37)

Thanks. And how are the new/old Tevas? Can you feel the difference? Curious. I am hoping it is the original formula.

I’m going to drive around on Sunday to go to different pharmacies to find out who is carrying what brands. They will not tell you over the phone in NYS which is the big difficulty. They have to know that you have an active script. So it’s illegal to tell you over phone if you don’t use that pharmacy. Even still I’ve had better luck with any yellow ones vs. blue generics. So I will drive around and see who is carrying Teva and I will also call my pharmacy and ask them if they can order the Teva because the Par ODTs make me feel just as lousy.

I think my doctor will be OK and understanding about it. The problem is there are only so many times he can run continue to write me the script if I am testing negative for the medication. But I’m going to double up right before the test because the ODTs make me feel badly. That’s the only thing I can think to do. I see him on Wednesday. So I’m gonna drive to the different pharmacies tomorrow and today and ask what they carry. And see what they say. But thanks for the heads up on that. My sister told me the same thing, that she heard TEVA had come back out with clons again. That’s good news. And thank goodness you have a doctor that listens as well..??

So my doctor kind of half believes me and half doesn’t. But he’s always wanting to give me the benefit of the doubt. I take another medication that I have to test for as well. And it is also a controlled substance. And I have never failed that one. So I know that deep down he believes me. But unfortunately their office has policies.

Let me know how you’re doing on the Teva brand. Very interested. Thanks, suzysurf

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