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my insurance stopped covering name brand vyvanse (midwest.social)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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And guess what is on back order at every nearby pharmacy? I'll give you a hint: it's not the $300 per month name brand.

So I guess I switch to Adderall xr tomorrow?

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Oh it gets even worse. Past couple months I’ve gotten generic vyvanse, and it just straight up doesn’t work at all. Talked to my doctor, he looked at it, and it’s from “sun pharma” in India. It’s either counterfeit or missing ingredients because he said over the last month about 20 other patients said the same thing about the same exact pills.

I’m extremely lucky that my insurance covers name brand meds, so he wrote me a “dispense as written” script and I got legit vyvanse now and it actually works.

Point is even if you could get generic vyvanse, it might be fake ass dogshit that doesn’t do jack.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yikes. I've been in take what I can get mode since the generic came out. Sometimes I was getting brand name, sometines generic. But I never noticed a difference. And I definitely would have!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Seems like it’s a mostly recent development. He said pills from India or china tend to either not work or be less effective, based on how his patients report to him.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

As a counter-anecdote, I’ve had 30mg generics from Sun and Mylan, and both have been the same or better than the name brand Vyvanse.

Not discounting your experience, I’m sure there are differences in the formulation that probably affect some people and not others.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Oh man i am really glad to hear that. It’s possible we just got a bad batch in Ohio that time, but it was two months in a row so who knows.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

@nick @thomcat
Also, different medications interact with people differently. It’s also possible that the way your body interacts with the same medication can change over time, which is why some people have to change medications or dosage amounts. All of this has happened to my daughter. Name brand Adderall makes her ill. We’ve found a couple of generic manufacturers that work well for her, for now. The fact that we have to scrabble to find them is another level of frustration.