Liver injury from generic copaxone

[SuzE-Q]

Guess a knock off CAN BE fundamentally different than the real thing!

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[agate]

Sounds as if the generic form of Copaxone was rushed through the approval process too.

[stillstANNding]

Very interesting and scary, Suzy.

My MS Specialist is trying to keep her copax patients on the 40mg dose three times a week to keep insurances from forcing patients onto the generic.

ANN

[SuzE-Q]

Very interesting and scary, Suzy.

My MS Specialist is trying to keep her copax patients on the 40mg dose three times a week to keep insurances from forcing patients onto the generic.

ANN

Yikes, and here I disapproved of Copaxone's attempt to keep MSers on the higher cost brand name drug by marketing a 3x a week version instead of just lowering their prices to compete with the generic.

I applauded the end of the patent in hopes of a comparable more economic version being made available! Turns out, it may not be so comparable after all!

[agate]

I believe it's becoming clear that there are certain types of drugs for which the generic "equivalent" isn't really equivalent in spite of all of the assurances we've been getting all along.