If I build a tolerance to a generic medication can I.....?

[ForeverAnxious]

Can I take a non-generic form of it and have a different tolerance? Thank you all very very much any help is appreciated!

 

[enkephaline]

normally, no. in your particular case, who knows. any more info?

 

[ForeverAnxious]

Yea, sorry about that! I am on Bupropion XL 300mg. What do you think?

 

[MrSpeedyG]

The only difference between generic and non-generic medication is the company that makes it. In some cases people claim that sometimes they have found generic meds are slightly weaker than the non-generic but that is rare and more often than not is in their head/palcebo. The chemical structure of the med is still the same.

 

[Rybee]

No. Not if they have the same active ingredient. Non-generic/Branded medicines may have other ingredients in to help support claims that they're superior.

But at the end of the day, a spade's a spade.

 

[MrSpeedyG]

But at the end of the day, a spade's a spade.

That's a good way to put it.

 

[dopemaster]

Generics can be up to 20 percent stronger or weaker by law in the US.

TBPH I do not think the brand makes much of a difference.

Only a few drugs does the brand matter and those are the ones most highly abused such as opiates and the whole tamper resistant thing going on.

Brand names do matter with benzos. Even a psychiatrist will admit to that.