I'm not a stickler when it comes to taking brand names but i know that it's better to take brand name seasonale than generic. nsaids like advil, tylenol, and whatever else those don't matter. Although there is a significant difference between zyrtec and it's generic versions. The brand name makes me drowsy, the generics on the other don't cause any drowsiness for me.
After five years of taking ponstel, it's been shocking but it was winter quarter, right around this time that i showed up at clinicals throwing up, diarrhea and whatever else comes along and ended up at Dr Rose's exam room afterwards.
Yesterday, i tried to get it filled and none of the pharmacies around here had it. My saving grace was the walgreens almost 6miles from here and the girl tells me we have the generic. huh? i think this is new because i've always received the brand name. I went to pick it up today despite the fact that "everything" has already started but i wasn't throwing up and while it did look like i may be getting diarrhea, i took the last 2 pills i had saturday and sunday and it looks like it took care of it. Early this morning i took 400mg of ibuprofen. Figured out an nsaid is an nsaid.
Considering i'm not having the 'usual' symptoms,it's going to be hard evaluating the effectiveness of the generic drug. I just hope it makes me drowsy but since i wasn't sure of that, i took some benadryl for insurance. Now i just have to wait and pray that it doesn't have an additive effect because benadryl is enough to cause me to sleep.
oh well...
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