Generic Brand Pain And Anxiety Meds Quality Ratings

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Over the past forty years I have been taking oxycodone and valium for different lengths of time, different health issues, and manufactured by many different pharm companies. Until the 1990s the brand names were affordable; $20. for 100 Tylenol #4s, $25. for 100 Percocet 5s. When the drug prices went sky high, generic versions flooded the market, $75. for 100 Miltowns vs. $5. for 100 generic meprobamates; but for every two Miltowns I was used to taking, to get the same physical effect (mild sedation) from the generic version I had to take three times as many. Even my doctor told me that the generics were only about 35% as potent as the brand name, so he told me to ask for the brand name of meprobamate Equinal, which was just as good as Miltown but only cost $18. for 100 tabs. Now, though, I don't think they make either Miltown or Equinal in any form except for the generic version, This is really too bad, because of the mostly crappy quality generics made these days, Miltown is hardly ever prescribed and it is much better than the valiums and related drugs, as it isn't a benzo, actually more in the line of the barbiturates, but the poor quality of generics had only added to the poor name Miltown grew to have in it's hey-day back in the '50s and '60s, which is when I was growing up, and people abused them as we did when valium hit it's all time high as the #1 prescribed drug in the 1970s and '80s.

I do wish Miltown would come back as a brand name drug, as I have been switched to Valium by my doctors and they aren't anywhere near as effective as the brand name, especially the ones from our local CVS, Mylon I believe is the name of the maker, orange 5 mgm tabs, and they are more like a 2 mgm, the blue 10s like a brand name 5. So I requested to be switched to Ativan 1 mgm, found a different pharmacy that didn't sell Mylan generics, and after three months and 150 doses, I find my anxiety is more felieved than it was with the cheap versions of valium I was accustomed to taking. These ativans have a V on one side, and I take it as directed, don't have to double or triple dose as I do on the diazepam. I wonder if the generic manufacturers are monitored or checked up on by the FDA for quality control, or any kind of control at all. It cannot be disputed that most generics are of poor quality, and this is mainly why there is so much problem with people double and triple dosing themselves. Do other people have this problem? The brand-name drug companies have so out-priced themselves that only people with lots of money can afford them. At CVS sixty diazepam 5 mgms were $16. while the same amount of Valiums was $350. Quite a price hike. But, as they say, you get what you pay for. Spend little money, you get little quality.

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