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<blockquote data-quote="Chris9450" data-source="post: 705641" data-attributes="member: 136554"><p>Hi, CatherineCherub!</p><p></p><p>I am English and we are governed by the National Health Service. They always put you on generic medication as soon as possible. In this particular case, the patented medication is about four times the cost of the generic equivalent. The NHS has to save money where possible as they are always strapped for cash. I believe we expect too much 'coverage' for what we pay. I have also discovered that the rules for generics is that they only have to be 80% similar to the patented version. This can mean they have slightly less of the medicine in them as well as cheaper fillers. It may be that one of those filler caused an allergic reaction in me which interfered with the medication being totally effective. Unless someone wants to use me as a test subject (lol) we will never know. I believe there are two issues:</p><p></p><p>1. Do we believe that diabetics try their best to maintain control of their diet, medication and exercise regime. It is too simple to divert concern over rising blood sugar levels onto a blame of the patient being non-compliant.</p><p></p><p>2. All generics should do a similar job to patented medication and any unusual change in symptoms etc should cause a change back to the patented medication to see if that is the problem.</p><p></p><p>I certainly did not expect to be in such trouble and my research led me to suspect that Amaryl could stop working after several years of treatment. I wonder if that is because other people are experiencing problems with the generic version not that the actual medication has stopped working. This was certainly the case for me!</p><p></p><p>Regards to you and thanks for the reply! Chris 9450</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chris9450, post: 705641, member: 136554"] Hi, CatherineCherub! I am English and we are governed by the National Health Service. They always put you on generic medication as soon as possible. In this particular case, the patented medication is about four times the cost of the generic equivalent. The NHS has to save money where possible as they are always strapped for cash. I believe we expect too much 'coverage' for what we pay. I have also discovered that the rules for generics is that they only have to be 80% similar to the patented version. This can mean they have slightly less of the medicine in them as well as cheaper fillers. It may be that one of those filler caused an allergic reaction in me which interfered with the medication being totally effective. Unless someone wants to use me as a test subject (lol) we will never know. I believe there are two issues: 1. Do we believe that diabetics try their best to maintain control of their diet, medication and exercise regime. It is too simple to divert concern over rising blood sugar levels onto a blame of the patient being non-compliant. 2. All generics should do a similar job to patented medication and any unusual change in symptoms etc should cause a change back to the patented medication to see if that is the problem. I certainly did not expect to be in such trouble and my research led me to suspect that Amaryl could stop working after several years of treatment. I wonder if that is because other people are experiencing problems with the generic version not that the actual medication has stopped working. This was certainly the case for me! Regards to you and thanks for the reply! Chris 9450 [/QUOTE]
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