Generic Medications

[lesliepear]

Just found out my Xanax XR has gone generic - so I'm going to try it (saving 15.00 is worth it). I also just read an article in a Drugstore Trade maagzine my husband had that showed which medicines will be going generic in the next 2 years - I saw my Advair will go generic in 2008 (boy that's an expensive medicine without insurance) and my Zoloft in 2007 if I rememebr right. (You have to register @ drugstorenews.com or I'd link to it).

The only one I won't take generic is my levoxyl. It's my one life essential medicine and from what I've heard over and over on the thyca list, the different brands don't always work the same and the generic levothyroid isn't always from the same mfg when you order it. As long as my prescription plan considers it the generic for synthroid, I'm happy (so I pay the 5.00 generic price for it!)

In the list of top generic drugs, I only recognized one - amoxicillin. Apparently there are 2 different kinds of it - but given the # of children I know who have taken it at one time or another I'm not surprised. I think my cat Moxie took amoxicillin once too!

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[luvmom.livejournal.com]

Most times the generics are just as good as the brands..
You just have to watch the manufacturers of some of them. But it sounds like your keeping up with that.

I hate the expensive co-pays. Mine is 15.00 for generics and 35.00 for brand names regardless of the medicine.

Stinks since two of the medicines my family takes monthly only come in the brand form. 70.00 dollars a month just on that.
Kind of annoys you when you pay over a 100.00 per week just to have insurance and then have to pay so much to see doctors and get prescriptions.
Hey that just turned into a vent.
lol

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

I try to mail order my long term medicines so I get a 3 month supply for 20.00 rather than a 1 month supply. I only have 2 currently I can't do that with - one is the levoxyl (heat issues), the other is my xanax XR (because the psy doc only writes one month at a time). Now that it's generic that will help though.

I was even suprised to get a generic zythromax (z-pack) the last time I was sick. It worked just fine.

[lesliepear.livejournal.com]

Oh with such a high co pay, I'd check to see how much the medicine is without insurance. I know thyroid medicine runs about 30.00 to 35.00 for a 100 count bottle without insurance. However, my Advair is around 200.00 a month without insurance.

You sometimes can get a discount without insurance if your doctor writes the prescription for the whole bottle size (usually 100 pills) rather than the 3 month supply (90 pills).