Is Teva sertraline/generic sertraline equivelant to Pfizer Zoloft?
Well, this makes all the sense in the world (if it is true?- wonder how I find out?)
Honey has been on this Teva form of sertraline and I think she is having withdrawal symptoms... well, it is not our imagination and I am not going to blame my poor pill cutting skills anymore. The above link is to a message board - a conversation others are having on the difference between Teva sertraline, Greenstone sertraline (greenstone being a Pfizer subsidiary) and Pfizer Zoloft. There are 379 comments concerning this issue. Most of them in agreement that something is wrong with the generic form- that they are having symptoms of withdrawal (though many of them dont know what is happening to them)
I also found some interesting thoughts here
and here at crazymeds.org on generic vs. brand.
Well, I think I have resolved one issue- Honey is in withdrawal and it is because of the freaking drug (teva form of sertraline)
So now, wonder what I do?
Do I continue with 37.5mg doses?
I have no idea what she has been getting. But yes, she needs to get stable again.
This is my plan (if we get what we need from the doctor today):
(But wondering now if doctor can give me a mix of these two forms of zoloft?)
oral concentrate form of zoloft
I also plan to ask for a script for 25mg Zoloft tablets – hoping for a couple weeks worth. Honey would take 1.5 of these tablets. I know it is going to be a short wait for the liquid (if she gets it) since it is not stocked where I plan to go for her rx. (It wasn’t stocked regularly anywhere around here). I am done with Teva. So she will need tablets until the liquid is available for us. I thought about this-
Tablets until liquid is ready then:
1 tablet and 12.5mg of the liquid (.62ml- haven’t quite figured it out yet) for a couple days, then ½ tablet and 25mg of the liquid until I am out of tablets. I just feel like it should be a gradual shift from tablet to liquid.
But, what do I know… well, I guess I know I need to trust my gut.
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Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Tuesday, March 6, 2007
Honey still irritable- withdrawal?
Honey has been really been different, though I am just now putting it all together.
She says she has felt this way for a couple weeks (which would be when I had to start cutting the Teva form of sertraline). It is just looking back at this time period that she realizes she has been “off”.
I have noticed it for about a week, but chalked it up to being housebound and then thinking she was getting sick.
Since I had many reasons to validate a change in her behavior and I am still not sure what its cause, I am just putting it together and seeing the big picture and I worry that it is somehow withdrawal symptoms?—could the dosage be that far off in my pill cutting to give honey withdrawal symptoms?
It seemed to escalate yesterday:
Irritable, irritable, irritable. Feeling sick (headache, body aches- no fever), feeling “down”, tired, tired, tired and affected more than normally by stimulation. (Example- Honey has been helping little sis with a computer game for a while (a month?) Honey wants to/likes to do this and they usually have fun. It is a game from lil sis’ school and lil sis runs into problems and Honey helps her figure out what to do. Honey helps for 15 minutes or so without any problem whatsoever. Yesterday, Honey helped and ten minutes later she was climbing the walls and had to lie down. I talked with her about it and we decided that it was too much stimulation- that activity like that would have to stop.)
We had been house-bound Wed- Saturday due to snow, lots of snow. Honey got outside just a few times for an hour or two at a time during that span. Without school and with slippery roads, Honey has been home much more than normally would.
Little sister has obviously been housebound with us. Little sister has been driving Honey crazy. Honey has had periods of absolute inability to tolerate lil sis. (and little sis isn’t really doing that much to irritate- it is just her being around??) She doesn’t want to be touched by lil sis or have her even get close. I am doing everything in my power to keep lil sis away from Honey. Have talked with lil sis and let her know it is important to just leave Honey alone. Let Honey come to her and then just talk quietly and gently with her. That when Honey is ready she will play again.
Maybe Honey is sick?
Maybe it with withdrawal symptoms?
Needed to make note of this
She says she has felt this way for a couple weeks (which would be when I had to start cutting the Teva form of sertraline). It is just looking back at this time period that she realizes she has been “off”.
I have noticed it for about a week, but chalked it up to being housebound and then thinking she was getting sick.
Since I had many reasons to validate a change in her behavior and I am still not sure what its cause, I am just putting it together and seeing the big picture and I worry that it is somehow withdrawal symptoms?—could the dosage be that far off in my pill cutting to give honey withdrawal symptoms?
It seemed to escalate yesterday:
Irritable, irritable, irritable. Feeling sick (headache, body aches- no fever), feeling “down”, tired, tired, tired and affected more than normally by stimulation. (Example- Honey has been helping little sis with a computer game for a while (a month?) Honey wants to/likes to do this and they usually have fun. It is a game from lil sis’ school and lil sis runs into problems and Honey helps her figure out what to do. Honey helps for 15 minutes or so without any problem whatsoever. Yesterday, Honey helped and ten minutes later she was climbing the walls and had to lie down. I talked with her about it and we decided that it was too much stimulation- that activity like that would have to stop.)
We had been house-bound Wed- Saturday due to snow, lots of snow. Honey got outside just a few times for an hour or two at a time during that span. Without school and with slippery roads, Honey has been home much more than normally would.
Little sister has obviously been housebound with us. Little sister has been driving Honey crazy. Honey has had periods of absolute inability to tolerate lil sis. (and little sis isn’t really doing that much to irritate- it is just her being around??) She doesn’t want to be touched by lil sis or have her even get close. I am doing everything in my power to keep lil sis away from Honey. Have talked with lil sis and let her know it is important to just leave Honey alone. Let Honey come to her and then just talk quietly and gently with her. That when Honey is ready she will play again.
Maybe Honey is sick?
Maybe it with withdrawal symptoms?
Needed to make note of this
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