Adderall Xr 20mg. Blue Capsule (Page 5)

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Pharmacy recently switched me to new generic brand (blue capsule) of adderall XR. I have never seen this brand and I don't feel like it is effective. I lack concentration and focus, recurring symptoms of ADHD. Anyone else experience this?

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I have been on Adderol XR 25mg for 6 yrs, just filled a RX and received Actavis Elizabeth LLC 25mgXR brand of them( light neon yellow)( no beads, powdery substance) I took it with breakfast as I have for years. Yawning uncontrollably, slight headache w/ nausea, yet I felt nothing. I did this for a week. Unless this brand is not as potent as the brand I have been using, I believe these are bunk. Everyone's body is different, and yes I've had generic adderol before but this has to be a joke. no focus, nausea, excessive yawning, extreme fatigue.

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I only have half of a pill. It is round in shape. Peach or orange in color. You can tell it was scored twice though on the one side. On the other you can see a capital "A" and what looks like a "3". The rest of what was there was on the other half so I need to find out what this pill is.

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My last two refills of adderall were The round peach tablets b 777 imprint one side and 1 5 on the other have made me feel very disoriented, nausea, tired to the point of sleeping 12-16 hours at times, I am angry, anxious, sad, and confused, and my vision is blurry. In the 8 years I have taken this medication I have NEVER felt this bad, this worthless or this tired!

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I took the blue Actavis Adderall XR 20 for 19 days. Made my ADHD worse. Also bloated my belly to where I looked to be 8 months pregnant. Took me four months to lose the bloat and inflammation. I've taken Addderall XR 20 by Teva and Barr for years with great results and NO adverse side effects. Unfortunately, I've had two pharmacy chains tell me they will only carry the Actavis brand from here on out, so they have lost me as a customer.

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This s*** sucks!!!! I felt nothing but sick, had blurry vision and felt tired.

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For three days I have been in a slump. No energy and feeling depressed because everything takes such an effort. Then I realized, these were the first days taking Actavis Elizabeth LLC version of Adderall! It is not effective at all.

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Yes!! My pharmacist switched me to generic r days ago & way less effective. Today i was getting my nails done at my nail ladies house. Suddenly i felt sick, diper hot temp, sweaty, dizzy, roaming eyes, heart racing, muscle rigidity, i felt like i was going to go unconscious & have a seizure. My nail tech had to put me in an ice bath in her house & call an ambulance. I am a nurse so when the symptoms started i took a gravol to slow my heart & body down. By the time the ambulance arrived i was just starting to feel better except i couldnt stand up without feeling faint & tremors. My vitals were a bit elevated BP & pulse. I ended up not going to the hospital because the symptoms were fading from the gravol getting into my system. It was one of the scariest experiences of my life.

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I'm so happy I found this thread! Last month was amazing! My focus was better, my moods were better and I even got ahead in my college assignments. Those pills were orange. I just got my adderall refill a few days ago. These are blue. I *knew* that wasn't the same medicine I had last month! I tried not to think about the difference the first two days, because I am so new to this medicine. By day three, I couldn't pass it off anymore. Something was definitely wrong! That day, my breathing was weird. I kept having to yawn, but couldn't inhale deep enough. The yawning made my body think I was sleepy. Then, I started feeling really strange. My mind was racing one hundred miles a minute and focusing on my homework became even harder than just not taking anything. That turned into anxiety then paranoia. I felt like I was going to have a panic attack! When it finally started wearing off, I told my husband is swore I just had like a bad trip from my adderall. I didn't take any the next day. I was still experiencing the crazy yawning thing, my chest had a dull pain and my mood was on edge. I had to stop myself from bursting into tears several times throughout the day. Those blue pills are nothing but a cheap and dirty disgusting knock off of the orange ones. Like they made me feel what I imagine consuming dangerous amounts of caffeine pills is like. Thanks to this thread, I now know to tell the pharmacy orange or nothing.

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Interesting! I am having the exact opposite problem! I have taken the blue capsules for years and have been doing great. My new pharmacy gave me the orange capsules and i feel HORRIBLE. I feel like I am not taking any medicine at all. I am absolutely starving and nauseated, etc. I feel like I am 100% drained of all energy-like I can barely pull my body up to function.

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I feel the way way I loved my blue ones and now the orange ones I feel like I am going to vomit and just have no energy just want to sleep because my stomach hurts so bad

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I have been taking the 20mg of the blue pills by Actavis for the last 2 weeks. I typically take the orange capsules by Teva. I've felt extreme tiredness, depression, and lack of concentration and focus. I thought it was all in my head. I brought the pills to the pharmacist and told him my symptoms and that these blue generics were basically completely inneffective and I feel worse. He told me it's the only version they carry and that I should either contact my doctor or the manufacturer. He also gave me the whole spiel about the FDA and that if they were ineffective and didn't have the same formula as the brand name, they couldn't sell them. Like I didn't already know that, but something fishy is going on here. I've been taking 20mg of generic Adderall XR for many years and I know how it works and I know how my body responds to it. I am so relieved to have found this thread because everyone keeps telling me that it's impossible for this to be happening.

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I will never take one of these pills again in my life. I've taken the orange 20mg xr, as well as 10mg ir's, and it doesn't even feel like the same chemical. Absolutely no positive effects at any point. I even noticed some slight dizziness and increased fatigue along with mood swings. Words can't describe how absolutely terrible this pill is. Whoever made these is endangering the public and should be sued to bankruptcy.

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I feel the same way! What's going on the orange ones are making me feel deathly ill!!!!!!! I was fine before!!!! I have no energy on the orange pills and severe headaches, nausea, confusion and it feels like electrical wires are going through my body! My head keeps going numb and I keep falling asleep by 8pm. It's starting to scare me!!! Please help.

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I feel the same way!!! Totally ill! What's going on!!!!

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Hello, I had the opposite.... I've been on the blue ones for 5 years now doing great and the orange ones have done the opposite for me. I'm feeling deathly illl!!!!!

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My son was on the Teva ones and they did nothing for him. He was out of control, we have found that the Activus ones work best, but since we filled his last prescription about 3 weeks ago, he has been going down hill again. I am so tired of these manufactures changing the make up of a brand that works, it took us about a year to figure out what worked for him, now they do not work. back to square 1.

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Yes as I as I have to take other 20 milligram adderall I did find these not nearly as effective and there isn't much in them as I when 1 capsule broke.

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I have been taking the orange ones by Teva. They make me feel horrible. I mean really terrible and it gives me dry mouth. I picked up the blue ones by Actavis from the pharmacy. I hope these work better.

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Yes, I was given the Actavis generic of Adderall xr 20mg and it makes me so sick. Today is the first day that I have the Shire brand name Adderall XR back. The nausea is gone, the tiredness, paranoia, pressure headaches, and complete belief about life turning to s*** - it's gone.

Actavis is s***. My pharmacists and doctors all acted as if I was crazy and one doctor gave me a drug panel and then said that she wanted to put me on antipsychotics after I cried about my sugar pills and babled about my life spiraling out of control. I was pissed. One pharmacist... When he got back from vacation (he is my favorite) believed me and worked his ass to get my insurance company to pay for the brand name shire adderall a week or so early, citing my reaction to Actavis and such. It took him 4 days but he did it.

To everyone in this situation: The pharmaceutical company wouldn't agree with me. 99.999% of pharmacists are pawns for the pharmaceutical industry and spout their crap.

Don't give up. You know your body and you know when there is a problem. Stick with your convictions and fight. Good luck. I have been miserable for weeks but I kept fighting and I won. Finally.

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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 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 have had 2 months back on Adderall. The first being a different generic, right away that fog was gone and I could think clearly. The second month, I started with Actavis, just as an experiment. Back to the fog, and forgetfulness (what other people view as carelessness). After a week I took the rest back and told the pharmacy my experience. They switched the rest out. 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. Has anyone else had anything like this?

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