Adderall Xr 20mg. Blue Capsule (Page 2) (Top voted first)

Pharmacy recently switched me to new generic brand (blue capsule) of adderall XR. I have never seen this brand and I don't feel like it is effective. I lack concentration and focus, recurring symptoms of ADHD. Anyone else experience this?

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Yes! Stay away from this sh*t..seriously. Go to Walgreens or some pharmacy that stocks Barr generic or have your doc prescribe brand name only. Actavis is the worst medicine I have have ever taken..I truly get angry thinking about the months of my life I took this sh*t and didn't know what was wrong with me. Good luck and refuse a

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These Actavis Elizabeth pills are poisonous, if you've taken adderall before even a good generic you know it eases symptoms helps functioning. Kroger filled with generic actavis Elizabeth,These are made with inactives not suitable for human beings esp medicine, start telling your doc, even make written complaint to fda, include lot# everything. Feeling migraines w/auras, inability to visually focus/concentrate, nausea when it wears off. If an insider knows anything about this,they need to speak up, this will be up there with the tuskeegee syphilis experiment, or eugenics. Humans are not deserving of being tricked into getting medication that doesn't work or has chemically made ingredients or fillers that damage DNA or the human spirit

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Yeah I happened to me to there not the same trust me

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My 13 year old son was switch to blue capsule and it makes him nauseous. Its not as effective either because he's all over the place. Calling doctor today to request 20 mg Orange capsule this worked very well.

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Oh my gosh, I am so happy to read this, I thought it was just me!! I've been on this blue pill now for almost 3 months!! I kinda felt stupid (like I was crazy & imagining it) until I told my fiancé, who said his friend said the same thing! I definitely am calling my dr's office tomorrow. Thank you!

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i'm just one more person who just a few days ago realized that my recent increase in symptoms might be due to this blue pill as well. I took old leftover orange ones that i had in my car for the last few days, and whar a difference! i'm talking to my Dr. amd my pharmacy this week. the blue pills are just as bad as not having any at all! I'm glad i wasn't imagining this.

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I was switched to these blue generic 20mg adderall's in dec, 2012. I noticed something different the first week. A month later I'm half way through my second bottle of these blue capsules. I was feeling depressed more often then when I was using the orange gen. I'm a lot more tired and unmotived. And I have this wierd pressure in my head that I didn't have with the orange generic. Not to mention ive had a short temper as well. I'm calling my pharmacy tomorrow and if they can't get the orange ones ill go somewhere else. In the meantime I'm thinking of stopping them all together.

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I just started taking Adderall this year and it has really, really helped. I just filled my prescription being back from college at my usual, local Pharmacy (first time filling it at my local Pharmacy). I wasn't aware I was taking a generic form, let alone there are different manufacturers of generic Adderall. I noticed right away that whatever I was taking this time just wasn't working. It wasn't a placebo effect, I was sure of it. It caused me to be angry, gave me mood swings, and made me really hungry. None of these things happen to me even before I started taking Adderall. It turns out my local Pharmacy gave me generic adderall manufactured by Activis, when at school the Pharmacy was giving me generic manufactured by Corepharma. I was shocked just how big of difference I had between these two. I finally found a Pharmacy around me that uses Corepharma, though I had to buy it without insurance since it had been less than 30 days. It was only $90, and it was worth it to me. Everything is back to normal and i'm in a really good place. How is something like this possible? It just doesn't make sense. It's like I was taking a totally different medication.

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While I'm no fan of big pharma, I think we need to be placing the blame on the guilty party here - insurance companies. If there's one person left on this planet who still believes their health insurance company is committed to their health and well being, OR that they're trying to save US money then that person is far too stupid to breathe. Corporations - any corporation - have only one purpose, their reason for existing, and that is to MAXIMIZE PROFITS for the SHAREHOLDERS - rich, old white guys who have 6 mansions all over the world, who are paid several million a year for sitting at a desk maybe 3-4 hours a day a couple times a week, go to $300 lunches with other insurance CEOS to discuss ways to CUT BENEFITS for patients even more, and travel to the world's greatest golf courses the rest of the time to relax and get their nasty leathery tans they think make them look young along with their bad comb-overs that cover nothing. Oh, and when the shareholders do receive a larger profit because these clowns' latest idea paid off - owning their own Rx manufacturing branch by buying out a little bitty pharma startup to make this Adderall XR fake and other drugs with less/ineffective/cheaper (and probably from CHINA) active ingredient so it's cheaper to make, then the CEOs get a multi million dollar BONUS on top of that fat salary. THAT'S why your new pharmacy manufacturer's Adderall XR doesn't work.

Next, they'll deny it as long as they can, which could be years, or even decades because nobody takes us seriously anyway and no lawyers will take it on because there's not enough profit in it for THEM. During that time they'll rake in as much profit as they possibly can until somebody files enough complaints or hopefully a legal case, assuming anyone cares enough. Just enough to raise an inquiry. It won't even make the news like FenPhen or the arthritis drugs because nobody is dying, so the worst for them will be a fine of likely less than $500,000 which is less than one day's profit out of 10-20 years of making billions on people who are paying for this fake trash and getting NO relief for a serious and very real medical condition. The insurance company has raked in billions, paid a minimal fine, AND continues business as usual, making more profits for their shareholders and more misery and suffering for the patients. The lawyers get a fat chunk of cash for brokering the lower fine and every member of the legal case - the patients who were harmed - each receive a check for $1.62, if anything at all. The 3 lead plaintiffs do get more, but certainly not much more than $100 each.

I know this because before I became disabled I was an attorney with a big law firm that represented all these big shese slime bag insurers, and I know the sleazy tactics and strategies they use. I can still see the sneering, contemptuous smirks in meetings where the partners would cook up this stuff, laughing at their cleverness in coming up fooling with ways for their the clients to rip off the rubes, slapping each other on the back in congratulations for coming up with such an easy way to squeeze even more out of the stupid patients who "don't even know the difference anyway," - and by the way, they have a "ranking" system for the insurance company's patients too when they discuss them. All of us are lower lifeforms of course, but anyone who's on Medicare, Medicaid, or a lower tier employer plan, well, "those people" are just lucky to be getting anything at all. We're lucky, in fact, that we're allowed to live. We're subhuman, about equal to rodents or cockroaches in their estimation, pests, really. But as long as they can make even a dollar off of us we're a necessary evil so they'll just have to tolerate our existence on the planet. But they're NOT interested in your health, much less your satisfaction with either your insurance or your drugs; you do not deserve any of the things humans enjoy - hey, we wouldn't even know enough to appreciate stuff like good food, music, a comfortable, safe place to live, quality medical care - or quality anything - and certainly not happiness. Why, we're only barely s r lf aware in their minds, like "dumb animals." I am, sadly, serious. This is exactly what the upper earners think of all of us. Yes, even me, and I was one of them - a member of the firm, that is; they never really accepted me into the fold because I'd made it on smarts, moxy, good grades, and hard work instead of inheriting.

In any event, THIS is why for-profit insurance has NO place in health care. Healthcare is about SICK PEOPLE, not "consumers." I am so sick of being told to shop around for the cheapest price on my HEART TRANSPLANT (just an example of the idiocy of the whole thing) and being referred to as a "health care CONSUMER" I am NOT! I'm a sick person who needs medical treatment, I'm not shopping for peaches!!! The US is the ONLY developed country on the planet that doesn't have health care as a benefit of being a member of society. Even third world countries like Belize have single payer health care, GOOD health care, free for everyone. Health, LIFE is a RIGHT, not something you only get if you can afford to pay "what the market will besr." It's been this way since humans began living in caves; all the so-called "primitive" peoples had doctors, medicine men/women, remefies, and NOBODY had to pay anybody for it. France, Germany, Belgium, look at history; all instituted health care for their citizens way back as far as the 17th century. This is also the ONLY country that instead make it a profit industry. Sorry if I've bored everyone but I've spent years studying on this and those of us who know the truth have a responsibility to speak out. Do not believe the false information being fed to you by - who else - big corporations - telling you how badly these other countries' health care systems work, long waits, rationing, substandard care - that is a bunch of misinformation designed to keep you from believing the truth when you hear it and demanding your human rights. I've lived in several other countries, including England, Canada, Germany, and France among others (like Costa Rica and Belize) and I have nothing but praise for all of their health care. And I wasn't even a citizen! You get sick, you go to the doctor; need a prescription you receive it - the drug your doctor prescribed, not something else some bean counter found cheaper.

Yes I'm angry, because I too got this Actavis garbage that does about as much good for my narcolepsy as a couple of Skittles. It DOES NOT WORK, it's NOT even the same active ingredient as Adderall - check the FDA's website AND the Actavis website, they both state this clearly. Tell your doctor you won't take it, report that it doesn't work to the FDA.

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There can be some slight fluctuations in the amount of active ingredient in generic medications. The FDA considers these fluctuations to be acceptable therapeutic windows, but some people are more sensitive than others and experience problems with any slight change in their medication.

Learn more Adderall details here.

If you have insurance, you could try asking your doctor to prescribe it as 'brand medically necessary' so your insurance will cover it and you won't experience such fluctuations in the future, or your can try asking your pharmacy to order the other generic in for you.

Does anyone else have any advice or suggestions to add?

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So glad I found this! I have been off my prescription for about a year and recently got my prescription started again, and decided to give the generic a try. It is awful!! I remember being so full of energy and focus last year when I used them. I thought they would get better, but four days in and I feel depressed and lethargic. Seems to make my focus worse. Calling my pharmacy tomorrow.

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Oh my Goodness! I was so frustrated because I have. Been a Mess! Exhausted, Spacey, Irritated and unable to focus or stay on task. I have been taking the stupid Blue Adderall that the pharmacy gave me instead of the orange one that i used to take. I am upset that those of us that have add or Adhd have to suffer because someone wants to Jack up medicine for whatever reason and pharmacies don't discountinue using it for whatever reason. I Have had 3 months of hell! Seeing my doc. Next week!

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Oh my godness! I'm not crazy then!! I had the same feelings. I work under bright lights for 5+ hours a day and some days it was so miserable! It was like my head was physically pushing against my eyes to the point where things would get blurry until I closed and rubbed my eyes and then it would be fine again. I had extreme mood swings but I just figured it was the stress of my school environment. I also started to break out horribly! And im past puberty and rarely ever have more than one breakout. Here's one more person saying that the blue actavis pills are basically poison without any positive effects. I aliken to taking rat poison and the only difference is it doesn't kill you right away. So glad I am back on Teva generic now.

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It's been about 2 weeks since my pharmacy switched from the orange to the blue...20 mg extended release generic adderall....feeling very off and am so glad I found this site!

Symptoms include lack of concentration, but quite different than not being on adderall ...much much worse...very, very sleepy and not thinking very clearly..almost like in a fog ..will switch back immediately!

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I'm fascinated to read this thread, because my 17yrold son just described the exact opposite experience to what so many of you have had. He has been taking the blue Adderall XR 20 mg pills for about a year and having the most academically successful year of his life. Since we get his meds via mail order, we sometimes have to wait for them to arrive, and today he took the same dosage but of my prescription, which has continued to be filled with the orange pills. He told me he was totally unfocused and might as well not have taken anything. His reading comprehension was terrible and he couldn't function at all mentally. I wonder why this would be true?

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I have taken the Teva brand Adderall 30mg XR for about 6 years. My pharmacy ran out, so I had to go to another pharmacy to get it. This pharmacies pills looked different but I didn't think anything of it. I had been taking them for about 2 weeks, and was feeling very tired, exhausted really, irritable, headache and depressed. I attributed this to maybe a virus or something. Then I had to take a UA for a new job. The drug panel center came back negative for any and all amphetamines. You all know that I should have failed that diagnosis. That triggered me to do some Internet searching on the Actavis brand of addy. I got my dr to write me an rx for the Teva brand. He said there is a big difference in generics. I just took my Teva brand addy about an hour ago and it's like everything is coming into focus again. That stuff is garbage to me.

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I was just changed to these blue caps, they do not work at all, I agree with all of you.
I see my Doctor next week and I am hoping he gives me something different. What are they doing to us? Are they trying to figure out who really needs adderall? They are hurting all of us who truly need this medication to function in this all ready messed up world. WE WANT OUR LIFE'S BACK!!!
GIVE US OUR REAL MEDICATION.
I CANT EVEN GET OUT OF BED, I FEEL LOOPY AND JUST WRITING THIS SMALL POST TOOK ME FOREVER!! I FEEL AS THEY TOOK OUR LIFE AWAY, WE DIDNT ASK TO HAVE ADHD, NOR ARE WE HAPPY WE NEED THIS MEDICATION TO FUNCTION. BUT WE DO, I HOPE YOU AGREE THE BLUE CAPSULE DOES NOT WORK AT ALL. MAN THAT FELT GOOD TO VENT!!

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I called my Dr's office today about these blue pills. Im prescribed to take one 20mg at 10 and one 10mg at 4. 20's were the fake blue ones, so to avoid that i got a new prescription to get 90 10mgs, 2 in am a in pm. good way to avoid these generic scams. hope it helps, TALK TO YOUR DOCTOR!! they will help

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Hello All. This is Jackie. Thought I'd ck back to see if there were addtional postings since mine. I see there are several. Wish we could do something before someone gets hurt from depression do to this awful medication that is making so many ppl sick. Its so sad. Please don't use it. I felt so bad on it until I wanted to give up. I was a mess!

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I will try to do the same. This Actavis generic company did not but cause depression for my daughter. I will either look for the other generic company (BARRR) or just order the name brand (shire). ty everyone for posting

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