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Does anyone know the best generic Keppra?
I'm desperate. Just switched health insurance plans during the chaos of the ACA implementation, and am operating on two days left of "loaner" pills from the pharmacy. Got my new insurance plan in place, only to find out that the new plan doesn't have the brand name Keppra (manufactured by UCB in Smyrna, GA) in its formulary.
Thus, I am having a total "FML" moment because I tried the generic by Northstar in the past and it didn't work.
I think this question has come up before, and I am rapidly googling it, but since I'm running out of time, I'm just risking offending people with posting something that's been covered already.
The pharmacy said they could order from most of the different generic labs (mentioned Sanboz and Accord).
Thus, I'm trying to find THE BEST GENERIC LAB. So if you've compared the Keppras from different labs, and have an idea as to which one worked for you and which one didn't, fire away.
I seem mostly immune to the side effects, so if it's a question of too much of the active ingredient vs. too little, I can side with too much. Although today is the first day I've heard of "Kepprage," which explains a few things. Thus, if you know labs whose tablets didn't work, that would be helpful, and if you know labs that produced tablets that still stopped seizures but had too many side effects, that would also be helpful.
Anyway, BEST generic out there? I am going to start the process to try to get back on the brand, but it looks like I'm going to have to function on a month of the generic and hope for the best.
I tried various tactics mentioned by people in other posts, like looking at different dosage levels and so forth to find one on the formulary, but it looks like none of the brand dosages are in my formulary.
If you have any ideas... let me know. If you don't know the name of your lab, but have your pill in front of you, if you describe it to me (shape/color/etc.) and tell me the stamp on it, and I can look it up.
Thank you! I'm new, but it's a time of crisis, so... super mega thank you if you've switched to a working generic and go to the trouble to identify the tablet. I've spent the last month making ten zillion calls to the insurance company so I at least have the other half of my drug cocktail (generic Depakote, which works fine) still in place.
I have done some searching on this site already, but some of the information is out of date because some of the labs/formularies/patent statuses have changed since 2007.
That's all!
Thank you!
-Alex
I'm desperate. Just switched health insurance plans during the chaos of the ACA implementation, and am operating on two days left of "loaner" pills from the pharmacy. Got my new insurance plan in place, only to find out that the new plan doesn't have the brand name Keppra (manufactured by UCB in Smyrna, GA) in its formulary.
Thus, I am having a total "FML" moment because I tried the generic by Northstar in the past and it didn't work.
I think this question has come up before, and I am rapidly googling it, but since I'm running out of time, I'm just risking offending people with posting something that's been covered already.
The pharmacy said they could order from most of the different generic labs (mentioned Sanboz and Accord).
Thus, I'm trying to find THE BEST GENERIC LAB. So if you've compared the Keppras from different labs, and have an idea as to which one worked for you and which one didn't, fire away.
I seem mostly immune to the side effects, so if it's a question of too much of the active ingredient vs. too little, I can side with too much. Although today is the first day I've heard of "Kepprage," which explains a few things. Thus, if you know labs whose tablets didn't work, that would be helpful, and if you know labs that produced tablets that still stopped seizures but had too many side effects, that would also be helpful.
Anyway, BEST generic out there? I am going to start the process to try to get back on the brand, but it looks like I'm going to have to function on a month of the generic and hope for the best.
I tried various tactics mentioned by people in other posts, like looking at different dosage levels and so forth to find one on the formulary, but it looks like none of the brand dosages are in my formulary.
If you have any ideas... let me know. If you don't know the name of your lab, but have your pill in front of you, if you describe it to me (shape/color/etc.) and tell me the stamp on it, and I can look it up.
Thank you! I'm new, but it's a time of crisis, so... super mega thank you if you've switched to a working generic and go to the trouble to identify the tablet. I've spent the last month making ten zillion calls to the insurance company so I at least have the other half of my drug cocktail (generic Depakote, which works fine) still in place.
I have done some searching on this site already, but some of the information is out of date because some of the labs/formularies/patent statuses have changed since 2007.
That's all!
Thank you!
-Alex