I have been taking 5 mg of Abilify name brand does the doctor and said I could increase it by half if I needed to they prescribed 10 mg the insurance company refusing to pay for 5mg with the extra forced me to take the generic was does not work for me in the least I sometimes feel like I’m slipping into psychosis ever so slightly it also has a negative atelitty to it whereas my moods are not as stable as they should be what I would like to know does anybody buy their Abilify as to keep from going to generic and how many of us out there are like this thank you for your timeZen
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I use generics out here and never had a problem. They should be the same medication.
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I use generic Abilify without any problems.
Generic vs. brand is a real Americanism from what I observe here
They’re licensed under strict conditions, and your FDA would come down like a ton of bricks if someone sold Aripiprazole not up to standards
We have pretty much all Generics here in the uk
I have been on branded Abilify and Latuda, but that was because they were released here before a patent expired - which is unusual for our regulators.
Anyway, don’t fall for the marketing material. The chemicals and the make up would be identical is my understanding of how these things work.
Just because the drug company has an expired patent, don’t fall for the rumours that they’re probably perpetuating as they have lost control of their drug, and understandably they want you to continue to be a good customer
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This isn’t the first time I’ve heard someone say a medicine’s generic doesn’t work as well for them, or works differently.
I have a theory, or maybe it’s a hypothesis…
Anyways, I wonder if maybe some of the additives in the generics aren’t as absorbable to some people, thus preventing the medicine from being metabolized as it should.
Just like some people are more/less sensitive to sugar or caffeine than others.
I have been on both branded and generic Abilify, same thing, same side effects and same effects.
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