How Much Can You Trust That Generic Drug You’re Taking?

Just this past week my family suffered from what appears to be bad generics. My daughter is on multiple anti-seizure medications, and due to a recent change in pharmacies the generic suppliers for most of her prescriptions changed.

Within a day after we moved over to the new supplier for one of her pills, seizures came roaring back (after over a year of having them pretty well controlled). We were perplexed, but the only thing that had really coincided was that change. So I went back to the previous pharmacy and got a refill of the old stuff, and the day after we switched back things returned to normal.

Of course it's difficult to know whether there was true correlation, or whether the whole thing was coincidence. But I'll certainly pay closer attention to generics going forward.