Good idea. I know OFFICIALLY according to the US Govt, LA times, and NY times generics are NOT EQUAL. I REPEAT: NOT EQUAL. It's proven fact all generic companies have to prove is in ONE test that their generic drug passed. It could have taken them 500 tries, but as long as they pass once that generic is golden and set for life. AND... They are NOT required to be the same. Just bio-equivalent which allows the ACTIVE ingrident to be up to 10% off. And 20% + of - on fillers.
Also, Guess who conducts the testing? That's right, the generic companies provide their own results to the FDA. The FDA doesn't actually test generics themselves, like many think, no, they actually take the generic companies word solely! Anyone who says the FDA tightly controls and monitors generics is delusional and needs medical help ASAP.
You type of people are the ones who put your fingers in your ears when facts are stated and live in la-la land and just can't accept that there is mass corruption. Fact is the FDA doesn't tightly control generics. It's all about money. Shit, there are former generic drug CEO's who now work in the FDA and Vice Versa. You have to be delusional to belief that generics are the same when there is mountains of proof to show otherwise. News articles, court cases, senate hearings, congress hearings, public record knowledge of FDA and drug companies top execs working together, or the former CEO of Teva is now the head of the FDA. Conflict of interest, much? Half or more of all FDA executives, inspectors, employeers have all worked for the drug companies. Not to mention the countless donation money they get. Drug companies have been caught paying off the FDA to get their drug approved/not removed/etc... And no one was charged, just business as usual. Hell, Prozac is a perfect example.
So if a generic company sumbits it's studies that it's generic is BIOEQUIVALENT (within 10% of the active ingrident, including + or - 20% fillers) that's IT, it's approved! It's now a generic!! And again, the generic company gets to do that study themselves. TOTAL conflict of interest, who is going to find faults when studying their own drug? Please.
Even my doctor told me (30+ year Doctor) generics SCARE HIM. He said one generic company was sued and fined for putting CONCRETE as a filler in the medication. They got fined by the FDA, and continued business. He's told me about THOUSANDS of lawsuits that occurred during his time as a doctor (without public knowledge) and the craziest things you could imagine generic medication did. From freaking concrete inside generic pills, to insect killers, you name it all have been used a fillers, often times for decades before they finally get sued. AND, sometimes we don't even know if they are required to remove it.
One company I remember he told me was found to be 70% to 99% less of for active ingridents for rougly 25% of the population! See, they put a certain filler in there, that it basically could NOT be absorbed into the body in 25% of people. Only a small fraction absorbed in the 25% of people, like 10%. It actually was on the market for 9 years before being pulled!! They kept saying the whole "it's in your head" non sense..... And later they where proven so wrong, I wonder how people like that sleep at night. That's why anyone who says "it's in your head" clearly has zero knowledge of what really has been proven in the past, even damn senate hearings on generic drugs, proving it also.
And here's my latest proof:
Normally 5mg Vicodin or Percs stops withdrawal. Everytime. Yet I started on the fake "generic OxyContin".
Well, it reads "20mg Oxycodone ER" on the bottle. So unless they changed the formula (which they claimed they didn't) then we all know OxyContin releases 1/3rd instantly and the remaining over 8-12 hours. Well, I can be in withdrawal and take a 20mg oxycodone with food. That means roughly 6.5mg is releasing instantly. Yet I feel still in withdraw-- badly. Which is impossible, unless the generic is cheap and doesn't contain 100% of the active ingredient. The LA times said the average generic is 4% off on active ingrident, but the fillers is really where the damage is done. Some fillers simply make the drug not absorb properly, reducing its effectiveness to an unknown level!!
So that's clearly only happening because it's generic OxyContin. As 6.5mg would ALWAYS stop withdrawals, as I stated above normally 5mg stops it, so a higher dosage surely would. Yet from generic it won't. Yup. I tried the same with a 20mg brand and it stops WD. Isn't that odd?
Yet everyday for a month I went through WD on generics...