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Hello everyone- I got a phone call today from my Mom saying that my medication would be changed some due to Medicaid issues. They are no longer paying for brand name medications unless there is no brand name available for it. So this means that my Keppra will be Levetiracetam which is the same medication but can have other non-active ingredients in it that brand name Keppra pills do not have at all. My Tegretol XR won't be changed due to the fact that Tegretol XR doesn't have a generic form. This frustrates me because I've had troubles with medication specifically Tegretol when it was Carbamazepine not working well when I was little. I hope that the Keppra generic will work somewhat close tot he same as Keppra. It's label is AB which means the FDA thinks that it will act almost the same strength as original keppra.
Anyone have this problem with generic medications not working like the brand name medications?
Anyone have any suggestions to this problem?
I am planning on getting a new neurologist in my area and had already planned on requesting Keppra XR since I take 6 Keppra a day and 3 Tegretol XR pills a day and wanted to reduce the number of pills/how often I take it.
That may be one option to keeping those two medications in the brand name form only..
Anyways- everyone take care and be safe..
-CM
Anyone have this problem with generic medications not working like the brand name medications?
Anyone have any suggestions to this problem?
I am planning on getting a new neurologist in my area and had already planned on requesting Keppra XR since I take 6 Keppra a day and 3 Tegretol XR pills a day and wanted to reduce the number of pills/how often I take it.
That may be one option to keeping those two medications in the brand name form only..
Anyways- everyone take care and be safe..
-CM