Actavis Adderall XR Experiences Thread

[relxdd]

Actavis is a brand new generic manufacturer on the market for Adderall XR, and the first maker that does NOT use Shire's formula which can potentially be a very good thing. This thread will be for discussing ONLY EXPERIENCES on Actavis. The politics, where to get, and the like which are not relevant to user experiences should use this thread.

Please use this thread to report how this variant affected you in comparison with other stimulant medications you may have taken. More importantly, I strongly request that anyone who has tried Activis reports its comparisons to Brand and the other generics on the market.

I will be getting my Actavis today or tomorrow and will report back. Unfortunately, I have never taken Global or Brand.

[Content ID]

For the OP of this thread, this is a great idea!
I have taken Brand and TEVA, forms of Adderall XR, I re-filled my prescription today sort of hoping it be Actavis so I could make a thread like this but again to my shock got TEVA.

But, my experience with Teva/Brand are pretty much the same due to Shire was making both of them. Common effects I get from it are Dry mouth, sometimes a faster than normal pulse, and anxiety. For my ADHD it works very well keeps me focused and on track with what I want to do. Sometimes I find myself hyperfocusing on one thing though so that can be both bad and good.

My post was again for you, that way you have something to compare it to against a real user. My daily schedule for XR is 2 20MG XR's. Also, for everyone's curiosity if you could post maybe a picture of what the physical pill looks like if you do get Actavis this would be cool since nothing of what they look like has been photographed only the prescribing information describing what they look like.

[relxdd]

Originally Posted by Content ID

For the OP of this thread, this is a great idea! But, my experience with Teva/Brand are pretty much the same due to Shire was making both of them. My daily schedule for XR is 2 20MG XR's.

Thanks for the appreciation! Anyone else who finds my posts useful, don't forget to give thanks!

Originally Posted by Content ID

Also, for everyone's curiosity if you could post maybe a picture of what the physical pill looks like if you do get Actavis this would be cool since nothing of what they look like has been photographed only the prescribing information describing what they look like.

You're in luck! Just got back from the pharmacy. Here is the never before seen image of this mystery drug!

Paid $3/capsule with insurance. Without was ~$300+ for 30 capsules. What a joke... My Vyvanse is even cheaper than this and this is a generic!

[Molite]

Wow 300 for 30? My Adderall XR 20mg was $400 which insurance paid and all I needed to pay was $8. I have the orange pills by global/Teva, not brand.

I'd like to know what other people experience on this Actavis generic.

[relxdd]

Originally Posted by Molite

Wow 300 for 30? My Adderall XR 20mg was $400 which insurance paid and all I needed to pay was $8. I have the orange pills by global/Teva, not brand. I'd like to know what other people experience on this Actavis generic.

I thought with competitor on the market they would charge lower prices. Hopefully they creep down with time now that Actavis is on the market. Your 20mg runs $400 for 30?

I do not like paying $90 out of pocket for 30 capsules that won't even get me through a whole day. Unless I'm totally blown away by these, I will be switching to Sandoz IR 3x day.

I will start my Actavis tomorrow and let everyone know how it goes.

[Molite]

Originally Posted by relxdd

I thought with competitor on the market they would charge lower prices. Hopefully they creep down with time now that Actavis is on the market. Your 20mg runs $400 for 30?

I do not like paying $90 out of pocket for 30 capsules that won't even get me through a whole day. Unless I'm totally blown away by these, I will be switching to Sandoz IR 3x day.

I will start my Actavis tomorrow and let everyone know how it goes.

Oh I'm sorry I meant 400 for 60 pills, I take 2 a day.

[Content ID]

Originally Posted by relxdd

Thanks for the appreciation! Anyone else who finds my posts useful, don't forget to give thanks!


You're in luck! Just got back from the pharmacy. Here is the never before seen image of this mystery drug!

Paid $3/capsule with insurance. Without was ~$300+ for 30 capsules. What a joke... My Vyvanse is even cheaper than this and this is a generic!

Your Adderall


Vyvanse


Call me crazy, but I think this is a way for people to confuse Adderall for Vyvanse now something is fishy here :X
Thanks this is great! Does anyone else here not see a strikingly similar resemblance between this and Vyvanse o_O

[tambourine-man]

Originally Posted by Content ID

Your Adderall


Vyvanse


Call me crazy, but I think this is a way for people to confuse Adderall for Vyvanse now something is fishy here :X
Thanks this is great! Does anyone else here not see a strikingly similar resemblance between this and Vyvanse o_O

Indeed this was the first thing I thought when I saw this pic. It doesn't have the Adderall look. It is VERY Vyvanse.

[relxdd]

Originally Posted by Content ID

Call me crazy, but I think this is a way for people to confuse Adderall for Vyvanse now something is fishy here :X
Thanks this is great! Does anyone else here not see a strikingly similar resemblance between this and Vyvanse o_O

I don't think there was any hidden motive to make XR look like Vyvanse. Perhaps they both just use common encapsulation processes? Regardless, yesterday I dosed 10mg around 9:30am. I was slightly less anxious, little more confident, more willingness to work which led me to clean my room up a bit and stay focused on it. The drug was as smooth as it gets and I never noticed a come up or down. I never felt buzzed or medicated and experienced no side effects. While 10mg did seem to provide some benefits, I think I can increase my dose a little bit.

Today, my first work day on it, I dosed at 8:30am and by 10:30am I was feeling tired. By lunch I started to feel a little better. Since taking Adderall, I'm not as passive either and much more inclined to engage myself in conversation when I need to. I can definitely sense an increase in confidence and tend to be a more direct and effective communicator. As an ADD-PI I have a big problem with passivity in which I never have the energy/focus to actually engage myself in conversation. I don't let people walk over me either and I can actually defend myself.

Unfortunately, Actavis is the only XR I have tried so I don't have any brand or generics to compare it to. I think my dose might be too low anyway. I'm going to jump to the next highest XR to see what happens.

[Content ID]

Originally Posted by relxdd

I don't think there was any hidden motive to make XR look like Vyvanse. Perhaps they both just use common encapsulation processes? Regardless, yesterday I dosed 10mg around 9:30am. I was slightly less anxious, little more confident, more willingness to work which led me to clean my room up a bit and stay focused on it. The drug was as smooth as it gets and I never noticed a come up or down. I never felt buzzed or medicated and experienced no side effects. While 10mg did seem to provide some benefits, I think I can increase my dose a little bit.

Today, my first work day on it, I dosed at 8:30am and by 10:30am I was feeling tired. By lunch I started to feel a little better. Since taking Adderall, I'm not as passive either and much more inclined to engage myself in conversation when I need to. I can definitely sense an increase in confidence and tend to be a more direct and effective communicator. As an ADD-PI I have a big problem with passivity in which I never have the energy/focus to actually engage myself in conversation. I don't let people walk over me either and I can actually defend myself.

Unfortunately, Actavis is the only XR I have tried so I don't have any brand or generics to compare it to. I think my dose might be too low anyway. I'm going to jump to the next highest XR to see what happens.

10Mg is kind of a small dose for XR. I don't doubt you felt tired by 10:30AM since only half is released and then the other half is time released in other words 5MG releases instant then the other 5MG is released slowly.

The increase in confidence is usual with Adderall it helps some peoples social anxiety and makes some peoples worse. Sounds interesting, some people reported a bit ago that Actavis was harsh but you say it is smooth. Has me wondering and re-considering if I should request to get Actavis by my pharmacy next month. 95% of the time I get Teva dispensed to me not if it's my pharmacy that specifically requests this but am def wondering about this now.

Also, OP can you please keep like a week long log about this on here in this thread? I think it will help everyone here if it's not to much of a nuisance to you. Also @tambourine-man I just looked at the Vyvanse prescribing sheet and the Actavis, it DEFINITELY is trying to imitate the look of Vyvanse. Hmm Wonder if Shire did an under the table deal to decide on colors...

Made this picture I find it rather odd so many of them resemble Vyvanse

[tambourine-man]

Originally Posted by Content ID

10Mg is kind of a small dose for XR. I don't doubt you felt tired by 10:30AM since only half is released and then the other half is time released in other words 5MG releases instant then the other 5MG is released slowly.

The increase in confidence is usual with Adderall it helps some peoples social anxiety and makes some peoples worse. Sounds interesting, some people reported a bit ago that Actavis was harsh but you say it is smooth. Has me wondering and re-considering if I should request to get Actavis by my pharmacy next month. 95% of the time I get Teva dispensed to me not if it's my pharmacy that specifically requests this but am def wondering about this now.

Also, OP can you please keep like a week long log about this on here in this thread? I think it will help everyone here if it's not to much of a nuisance to you. Also @tambourine-man I just looked at the Vyvanse prescribing sheet and the Actavis, it DEFINITELY is trying to imitate the look of Vyvanse. Hmm Wonder if Shire did an under the table deal to decide on colors...

Made this picture I find it rather odd so many of them resemble Vyvanse

Wow, this is nuts! I don't see how you can deny that imitation is, indeed, occuring here. Motive? If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery... Vyvanse still sucks.

[BR549]

To convert Vyvanse to Adderall XR, the doses would be:
*note-->the XR colors listed are Actavis' colors, not Shire's XR colors

70 mg Vyvanse=30 mg XR (orange/orange XR cap, Vyvanse blue/orange cap)
60 mg Vyvanse=25 mg XR (ivory/ivory XR cap, Vyvanse blue/aqua cap)
50 mg Vyvanse=20 mg XR (lt blue XR cap, Vyvanse white/blue cap)
40 mg Vyvanse=15 mg XR (ivory/orange XR cap, Vyvanse white/bluegreen cap)
30 mg Vyvanse=10 mg XR (lt blue/ivory XR cap/ Vyvanse white/orange cap)
20 mg Vyvanse= 5mg XR (lt blue/orange XR cap/Vyvanse ivory/ivory cap)

If a company were try to make their product look like another, they'd take greater pains to make sure their colors for each equivalent dose of the the med they were copying matched. In this case, they don't.

I doubt that Shire did an under the table deal to decide colors, since that would cut into their profit of Adderall XR and possibly Vyvanse. They still manufacture XR brand name and XR for Teva and Global. Vyvanse is selling well for them, outselling Adderall XR:

From Zacks.com

Quarter in Detail
Products that performed well during the quarter include Vyvanse (up 43% to $266.2 million)

Adderall XR’s second-quarter sales decreased 9% to $133.9 million due to lower prescription demand and destocking of the drug. We note that in June 2012, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the abbreviated new drug application (ANDA) filed by Actavis for its generic version of Adderall XR. Actavis is in the process of being acquired by Watson Pharmaceuticals Inc. (WPI - Analyst Report).

The company has two authorized generic partners – Teva Pharmaceuticals (TEVA - Analyst Report) and Impax Laboratories (IPXL - Snapshot Report). We believe that the entry of additional generic versions of Adderall XR will impact Adderall XR revenues unfavorably.

Royalties decreased 11% to $56.3 million. The decrease in royalty revenue was primarily due to a fall in 3TC and Zeffix royalties (down 6% to $10.6 million) and Adderall XR (down 5% to $25.7 million).

Under the agreement between Global, Teva and Shire for Adderall XR, Global pays Shire royalty fees from their sales of XR. Teva pays Shire for the finished product, rather than paying them a royalty fee.

[relxdd]

Originally Posted by Content ID

The increase in confidence is usual with Adderall it helps some peoples social anxiety and makes some peoples worse. Sounds interesting, some people reported a bit ago that Actavis was harsh but you say it is smooth. Has me wondering and re-considering if I should request to get Actavis by my pharmacy next month.

The main reason I held off on Adderall as long as possible is because of how the anxiety is supposed to be more intense than d-AMPH. 30mg of Vyvanse gave me pretty bad anxiety for several weeks before it subsided. Perhaps my body is welcoming Adderall because my body is already used to stimulants. On a higher dose of Adderall my opinion could change...

Where did you find Actavis XR reports? I've been looking and couldn't find any. The Actavis could seem smooth because I'm taking such a low dose. After all, I'm experiencing no side effects and some improvements.

Originally Posted by Content ID

Also, OP can you please keep like a week long log about this on here in this thread? I think it will help everyone here if it's not to much of a nuisance to you.

I planned on it.

Originally Posted by BR549

30 mg Vyvanse=10 mg XR (lt blue/ivory XR cap/ Vyvanse white/orange cap)

I can feel a kick on 30mg of Vyvanse and can feel it working. Actavis XR 10mg is barely noticeable. From my experience, 10mg of XR is equivalent to about 20-25mg of Vyvanse.

This thread has gone off topic though and should be contained to this other thread. This thread was supposed to deal with user experiences only. Politics, capsule conspiracies, and other topics not related to experiences should use the other thread.

Thanks all.

[gregcristy]

hi!
can someone tell me where they got their actavis version of adderall? I cant find a pharmacy that carries it..thanks!!

[relxdd]

Originally Posted by gregcristy

hi!
can someone tell me where they got their actavis version of adderall? I cant find a pharmacy that carries it..thanks!!

I got mine at Costco, but these kinds of questions belong in this thread. This thread thread is for how users respond to the drug, not where they got it from or what the capsules look like. Thanks.

Just to update the thread, I can hardly feel 10mg XR. Yesterday in PM I took 7mg of Sandoz IR booster and had one of the worst headaches that lasted the entire evening. I don't know if it's the XR or IR triggering the headaches, but yesterday evening was unbearable.