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Man your mini-story underneath the Love A.D.D.erall title up there with the orange pill photos, thats exactly how I feel. It’s terrible man I hate being on this stuff but I love it because I can actually get things done, I got a 3.8 last semester because of that stuff. I couldn’t have said it better than you did, and I couldn’t find any other way to contact you and say this so I just posted it here.

I just recently moved from Louisiana to Mississippi and went to get my adderall prescription refilled. Without having insurance I have always gotten the generic brand. I was an orange, round/oval shape, 30mg and was almost sweet to taste….not candy sweet but not nasty like many medications can be. I have just received my first prescription of these pink things I have never seen before. Not only was the price about $30 more expensive (maybe due to state/pharmacy difference) but I had a hard time even finding a picture of it online. If you have any information on how it may be different or anything you noticed about it as compared to the orange ones I would really appreciate any info as I do not like the idea of switching medications, especially in generic form.
My psychiatrist did advise me on certain pharmacies he would prefer I go to because of the generic brands they carry and how certain generics react differently due to their chemical composition. I am still trying to get in touch with him and my past pharmacist to see if they have anything on this new pink generic.

Hi from Adderall-ville. I’ve been on it for years and have also built up a bit of a tolerance. I take 20mg (2 first thing in the morning and 1 around 11am) this dose only effects and improves me until about 2 to 3 o’clock in the afternoon. I’ve experimented with double dosing and got great results but then liked being “on” all day and ran short before my refill was due. Talk about withdrawl. I went 3 days without it and will never short myself again.

Regarding the orange pink question, I had just the opposite reaction. I’ve been on the 20 mg orange for some time now, but happened to go to a different pharmacy this month. Much to my surprise I found these hot pink round pills when I opened the bottle. WOW! What a difference. These pink pills seem stronger, though they are also 20mg. They actually make me feel happy and I suffer from chronic depression along with ADD. They also seem to last in my system longer as well. I WANT MORE of these little pink pills and will ask my DR to prescribe them for me.

It will be interesting to see if the WOW effect will quickly lessen over time. It is also possible that because I went through withdrawl for 3 days that when it hit my system I got turbo charged, but I don’t really think so. These FEEL very different in effect than the orange one’s. Well, hope that stirs the pot a bit. Best to you.

Kate, I think you may have touched on an intriguing little subplot. There are multiple generic brands of Adderall, not just one. Some of the generic brands are orange, for example, the one that has “b 973″ inscribed on one side and “-2|0-” on the other. That’s the one I just picked up, and I’m waiting to see if there’s any major difference between these and pink “cor 135″ pills. Maybe we’re all just different and need to find what works for us. What bugs me is when they try to tell us all are the same, even though most pharmacists will admit they’re different. Thanks for your comments, I’ll keep everyone posted.

I’ve been on Adderall XR for about two years now. And I just got prescribed the little pink pills last month. Mine are called “D-Amphetamine Salt Combo” and their a generic of Adderall XR. I don’t really notice too much of a difference. I think XR worked a little better though. But all in all, the diffrence wasn’t all too noticable. My appetite isn’t supressed as much with these little pink pills, which I don’t like. I kinda like how the XR supresses my appetite. Anyways, if you find out anymore with this little experiment you’re doing, I’d sure like to be updated! =]

About the pink verses the orange
I suspect you are correct about different results
I know this to be true with diazepan the only good manufacture of generic diazepan is the Watson co. in fact they are stronger than brand Valium

Im not prescribed adderal, but I like to do them recreationaly. Used to always get orange 20s or blue 10s. Then I recieved these pink gen.s Amphetamine dex is what is. Its basically the same as add. but with a different chemical composition. Its made to have a longer half life even if busted up. Thats why those of you who chew or sniff them dont get that buzz. There is 1 way to get around this for those who use it rec. Not recomending it!!! Break it down very fine with cold water, use a small filter. Draw it up and inject it. Dont miss, it will cause a burning sensation. If doing 1 tab. use 100 units of clean water. Preferably strait out of a new water bottle. For 2 tabs, about 150 units and for 3 use 200 units. Ive found the best way is to use a 3 mililiter 25 gauge B12 syringe. Local walmart pharm. carry them, 28 cents a piece. Try to have a clean 100 unit syringe with you as well, just for adding water. Put 150 units on it with the 100 and draw it up with the 3 ml. Then 100 more and do the same 2 times. That will make 3 ml. also makes 3 shots in 1 and garantees that you will get at least 90% of the drug.I do this with all injectable except for liquids of course. Im totally against buchering yourself buy poking over and over and killing your veins. May need those for med. purposes one day. I really dont recomend this. But if you do it already, do it at your own risk. If you inject regularly, to be safe and not become a needle addict, never use more than 2 days in a row and always wait a week after your 2nd time before doing it again. Its called chipping. The same can be done with all opiate drugs including heroin but NOT cocaine(devils loser powder). Never inject or even do cocaine very addictive and deadly. Same with meth, unless you just really want or need to rot out your brain and you want to make sure later in life that you will have the joys of experiencing cancer,suicidal tendencies, and severe depression. For those who use drugs of the harder nature(opiates,downs, and ups) its best to stick with pharmacuticals. At least you know its clean and where it came from. Just be sure to chip even if you dont inject. You can find some really great info on all of this on http://www.heroinhelper.com
Jeremy H. 14 88

I have been on 30mg tablets of adderall twice a day for quite some time now. I got the different generic pills at different times throughout since i’ve been prescribed to adderall, all completely random when i got a refill. The oval orange 30mg and the pink round 30mg…there is absolutely positively not a profound difference in the two at all.

I found your entry as I was searching online to see if anyone agreed with me. I was prescribed the generic pink brand and found them to be much stronger, however, leave me with a horrible headache when they wear off. Perhaps its something about them having a longer half life as one person posted and it’s leaving me with some sort of adderall hangover. Whereas the original Adderall left me feeling perfectly fine.

I found your site while trying to find out if there was indeed a difference between the pink & orange Adderall. I have taken the orange since I was 18 and am now almost 24, but was switched to the pink about 2 months ago. I have noticed a huge difference. The pink seems to a much quicker affect on me but doesn’t last as long. It also doesn’t squash my appetite as much as the orange does, but it leaves me jittery in a way the orange never did and with cotton mouth that is unbearable. I normally took 1 1/2 20mg orange in the morning, 1 @ 2pm, and a 1/2 at 4pm = 60 mg a day. With the pink i need to take 4 a day to be able to focus as much and as long as I did on the orange. I can’t understand and I hate because I am so jumpy all the time. My doctor and pharmacist swear there is no chemical change between the two and act like i’m crazy when I try to explain, but I swear on my life there is.

I was prescribed adderall about 7 months ago and have been taking the generic pink 20mg tabs up until last week when I went to Wal-mart and was given the orange 20mg. The pink 20’s definitely made me more jittery and feeling like crap when they wore off. The orange one’s don’t seem to be that way and tend to last a little longer. Plus, the pink ones are bitter if you don’t swallow them right away, whereas the orange ones are kind of sweet tasting. Personally, I prefer the orange generic

This is all very interesting. I’ve been prescribed “adderall” 20mg twice daily for nearly 2 yrs, and have come across 4 different varieties. When I go to the pharmacy I usually expect to find the oval, orange-sweet tasting kind. Then there is a round-orange type and the round-pink, both dreaded and I don’t think I could tell them apart blind (sort of an exagerration, more like I’m pissed off about it. In fact I just decided I’m going to start finding out ahead what they have in stock for me so I’d be able to find some other place and avoid getting stiffed.) The 4th kind is ADDERALL XR®, which I don’t have that much experience with. I see XR as just an “escalation” by a pharmaceutical company who wants to keep a proprietary formula they can market. The original (not XR) “Adderall brand amphetamine salt combo” was a compounded mixture designed to be an appetite suppressant prescribed for weight loss. When prescribing amphetamines for that sort of thing went out of style, they directed it towards treating ADD/ADHD or “Hyperkinesis”, the old-school term for that.
Among the “salts” contained in the pills you see they can include sacharates and aspartates. Aka sacharine,aspartame, artificial sweeteners — is that sweet taste then because of these? I doubt it’s just a flavor additive to make kids like it more :)
Sulfates and sacharates and aspartates (no idea what the differences are, but I notice there’s no freebase or HCL’s in lists of ingredients) of both Dextro-amphetamine and regular amphetamine (straight amphetamine, probably sulfate or hydrochloride was used/invented first as a bronchiodilator to treat asthma in the 1920’s) are the components in Adderall. I’ve read that this D-amphetamine, taken alone by itself, targets the left frontal cortex of the brain with much less peripheral stimulation or jitteriness, and that the jitteriness is mostly caused by the the non-D-amphetamine components, and to top that off, the other components have a longer half-life! But don’t even try to get a prescreption for pure dextroamphetamine unless you have some kind of medical degree and know where a real old-fashioned pharmacy is. We’re stuck with a dressed up appetite suppressant and whatever passes as an acceptable generic.
I like the sweet orange kind the best, and don’t know about Adderall XR, I might find it even more helpful. But if what I’ve just relayed about D-amph is true I’d logically want to find a pharmacokinetic datasheet or something for every type of pill and see what has the highest ratio of D.

I have taken 20 mg XR for quite some years now. I am now in my later years of college and i choose to only take my adderall when i need it, like to study, take a test, write a paper, or do work. I recently ran out, and it is finals week and i found myself in a complicated state. luckily every student uses adderall as a study drug, so it wasnt hard to find someone with ADHD like myself to buy some from. He had the pink pills. At first i didnt even think this was adderall, until i looked it up. i have taken 2 in the past 2 days. I like the pink better. i dont care so much for the supressing appetite because the purpose of adderall is not to lose weight, it is for people like myself and all of you that have this disorder and need the pill. So i dont mind having my appetite back a little bit on this pill at all. It focuses me all the same, and it is even easier to fall asleep on, because i do have problems sleeping on the orange adderall XR. I do recieve a headache when coming off it though, but thats nothing an advil cant fix. And the whole jittery thing…i am definately more shakey on the orange XR pills, and i get cold sweats too when i am on them. i found that i wasnt jittery at all on the pink, and i didnt have any cold sweats. the pink pill also starts working faster. I think the pills work the same, and they effect my ADHD the same. the only difference is the difference in the side effects, and if you have a problem or are concerned with that, like me, i would take the pink pills. When i get home from break i am going to be asking my doctor where i can be given these pink ones rather than the orange. Happy studying.

Hi, I have been taking the peach color 20mg tablets for a few years. I have always felt jittery, but yesterday my daughter gave me one of hers, which is the pink one, but I didn’t know that until the day after I took it and she had commented on the different color. They were the same as far as mgs. She asked if I could tell a different on how I felt. I told her and I can tell you, it did make me feel different . I was focused, but I did not have the jitters. I felt calm and because of that I could even focuse even better. I plan on switching to the pink the next time.

I was on the orange b-973’s, and now they switched it to the pink cor-135’s. I really don’t like the pink pills either. I’m tired and hungry all the time. At first, I was jittery and anxious, but that went away and now I am just EXTREMELY tired all of the time. I just take 1/2 a pill twice a day. Maybe the pink ones don’t work well when they are broken in half?

Also, I have noticed that the orange adderall kind of loses it’s effect as it gets older. At the end of the bottle, mine were always chalky, really easy to break, and seem less potent. Has anyone else noticed anything like that?

Well, I’d love to know the results of your own, personal research. I have been prescribed Adderall (Non-XR, 20 mg. twice a day) for just over 2 years, and it really has changed my life for the better. Granted, I am also prescribed *groan* a couple other things that I take with it, but suffice it to say that I noticed a significant increase in focus and mood when I am taking Adderall. For me it functions very well for focus, and as an anti-depressant. But I have been told recently (by friends) that there is a significant difference between the effect of generic against brand. Since I have always been on generic, I was going to find out by refilling my prescription (and pay extra) for brand, just to see what happens. But if you do have results from your own self-study, it would be great to see what you discovered.

Yes Emily, mine get chalky and seem to lose potency within the month they’re in the bottle too. I thought I was crazy until now! Possibly something to do with humidity in the air??

At least I know it’s not just me, now. I haven’t been able to find any information on adderall losing its potency on the internet. I do live in the Midwest, so maybe it could be humidity?

your all addicted

i’ve just recently started taking the generic pink 20mgs. i’ve never used original adderall so i have nothing to really compare my effects with. for me, my jitters were extremely inconsistent, especially for the first few days (howeveer, so was my chosen dosage so i’m sure that made things how they were). overall, i’d say i was much less hyper, way less hungry(i wouldn’t eat for a 2 days at a time sometimes and then binge on the third day), moderately dehydrated, pretty fatigued given simple tasks but i was totally focused on everything i did. i feel like a genius on the stuff. the effects start and end abruptly. to stay at a more consistent feeling, it takes 3 in the morning, 1 mid day and atleast 1 around 5(which is always my optional pill). this is the first medication of this kind i’ve taken for an extended period, but i feel like i built up a high tolerance almost immediately. in the evenings, or whenever i start to come down, my whole body feels tired and stiff accompanied by a swimming sensatin in my head. i have no desire to be as athletic as i used to and when i do, there is a notable decrease in my stamina.
i love how when i’m on it, everything seems to make sense and i’m indifferent about everything. however, all of my senses are dulled and nothing is as exciting when i take it. i don’t like to talk or play my clarinet. on a last note, as horrible as this is, if i take high amounts almost every hour or so (maybe 8 or 9 in a 24 hour period) i don’t want to sit down. i move about and comulsively do meaningless tasks like rearrange my book shelf over and over or organize bits of paper. it’s those days i don’t eat, but i drink around 3 liters of water.

To: anonymous

“your all addicted” -

Maybe you need some adderall. If you were able to pay attention in school, you would know that it is “you’re”!!! Jackass!

I’ve been on Adderall for 6 years now and have always takin 20mg orange. My last refill was pink. To me there is a huge difference! The pinks wear off quick! I normally take 2 orange a day, and now with the pink I take 4! Almost out and can only refill once a month! Focus, concentration, and productivty is much better with orange. I got last refill at Walgreens and they were pink, anyone know which pharmacy still has orange?

I know for a fact that there is a significant difference between the orange and the pink. The pink really, really suck. I get so upset when I leave the pharmacy, look in my bottle and see pink. The orange ones work a million times better, you do not need as much and they last way longer than those crappy pink ones. I have wanted to go back to the pharmacy for an exchange, even if i have to go elsewhere for them. However, when I run out I am really a lost cause. I am extremely unmotivated and sleep for days. I t really sucks, but it is hard to get through the month when you need extra just for the potency. I would like to know if I could pay extra for the original brand since i have crappy insurnace that only offers generic. Please respond if anyone knows.

Hi Vanessa-

You can always choose to buy the original brand (of any drug you’re prescribed) even if your insurance doesn’t cover it. You just won’t get the discount. It’s not that there’s necessarily something harmful about the original brand; the reason you’re insurance won’t offer them is just because generics are cheaper, and insurance companies are BIG fans of cheapness.

After I wrote my above post I learned there were multiple types of orange generic 20mg Adderalls–not just the pink. The problem might not be that ALL generics are inferior, just that the pink generics inscribed with “cor 135″, are significantly shittier than ALL other versions of the 20mg pill (including the other generic versions which are orange). If so, the generic orange pills may work for you, in which case you won’t have to pay extra for the original brand. If you find that’s the case, you should tell the pharmacist before you buy anything that you prefer the orange kind. about it before you buy them. It’s perfectly legit to ask the pharmacist which generic brand they happen to carry. You don’t have to cross your fingers wait until you get back to the car to find out what color your pills are, and then be screwed for an entire month if they’re the wrong ones.

I don’t seem to have any side effects from most meds and do not seem to get the expected result when the doctor changes my meds. I have been in state hospitals, local hospitals and many rehab centers over the years since the early 70’s. Doctors have prescribed and I have taken over fifty (50) Psychotropic meds during this time. Is it possible for me to have built up a tolerance from any Psychotropic med or from any med, even if I have not taken that same med for years? It seems no mater what med I am given I have little or no reaction to it. This also includes schedule 2 narcotics. If you have any info that could help me I would appreciate it. Thank you
Steve S.

I live in Houston,Tx and have been taking Adderall for the past 3 yrs; I started when I was 21 and have taken all of the following:
* 20mg Adderall XR (Brand Name)

I accidentally submitted the above without finishing my thoughts: see below

I live in Houston,Tx and have been taking Adderall for the past 3 yrs; I started when I was 21 and have taken all of the following:
* 20mg Adderall XR (Brand Name)
* 20mg Adderall D-Amphetamine Salt Combo (Orange - Generic)
*30mg Adderall D-Amphetamine Salt Combo (Orange - Generic)
*20mg Adderall Adderall D-Amphetamine Salt Combo (Pink COR 135 - Generic)

All of my prescriptions have been filled by Walgreens and today is my first time to take the pink ones. I took two this morning around 7:30AM but haven’t noticed any of the usual side-effects I normally get from the orange ones: dry/cotton mouth, increased Heart Rate, jitters(not bad jitters, just interal like I feel I need to be doing something productive), or increased body temp.

I have read alot of these blogs and have seen where people are mentioning that they like the Pink cross-haired COR 135 Adderalls better than the orange ones, but I feel the opposite. Not only do I not have the normal side-effects (not necessarily a bad thing), but I don’t feel the ‘focus’ I usually get from the orange ones.

Is there anyone else out there who feels like these pink ones are as bogus as I do, or am I alone in this thought?

I received the generic pink 20 mg pills for the first time at the beginning of January from Walgreens. I had previously always been given the oval orange generics, which were fine. The pink ones are completely different; basically, they don’t work. Also, I was interested to see the previous comment about feeling stiff and sore, which is how I have felt since taking the pink ones (although I can’t imagine how a pill could cause that side effect so it may just be in my head). But, absolutely, the pink generics are TERRIBLE

I cannot take the orange or the pink…it never seemed to work for me…the pink was not as “strong” as the blue tabs. So, my pharmacy began ordering the BLUE tabs again. I am 43 and have been taking them for a little under a year. I just wished they lasted longer through the “down time” (as some call it) before the next dose. Even the extended did not last the day…that is why I went back the 2 times a day with the ‘regular’ adderall/generic brand. By the way, how do you find out who the pharmaceutical cimpany is on the blue tabs with out going to the pharmacy–and them looking at you like “why?”.

20mg Adderall -Amphetamine Salt Combo (BLUE - Generic)

Thanks.

I have just started on the “pink” adderal, and was considering calling the pharmacy to see if they got my prescription mixed up. I am prescribed 2 20 mg. adderal per day, but normally split the dosage according to my work day. For instance, I only take 1/2 in the morning and usually take another half later in the day. If I am having a longer or harder work day, then I will take another half as needed. That way, I don’t take more than I need. However, 1/2 of the pink ones don’t work at all. The only “plus” I can find is that there is not a really hard drop in my energy whenever the medication wears off. I guess it will be a trade-off between taking more of the pink pills, but not feeling so down whenever they wear off. A co-worker just took the pink ones, and he says that he can’t tell he takes the pink ones until a couple of hours after his dosage. He seems to think they are more like the timed release XR - he couldn’t fall asleep at night after what seemed like a “boost” late in the day. My psychiatrist prefers the brand name for women, but my insurance will not pay for the brand name except in the XR and I don’t always need medication for an entire day.

Is anyone familiar with amphetamine salts causing extreme reactions? Stupor, coma, fever, etc?

Also, I understand the generic salts are made by Tyco Healthcare, a division of Mallincrodt? Any information one way or the other would be helpful.
thanks

of course there is a differance. where there is a substantial price reduction there is a substantial quility reduction. ie ( shuuuuu! dont tell any one. but the filler and in some the reation of inactive ingrediants is (active) depending on the ph acidic level of your body. belive it or not you can charge a small battery and those positivly charge molices in which then can not pass your bi polar layer of fat on the outside of you hippocappuse. so if you think the reason that they can lower their prices is do to patient differance then sorry they got to you with there spinning. hope this has help and for more info on Barr phama. cheack the FDA website it shows that they were not even putting enoughe active ingredients in their projuct and they have a reeeeeaaallly bad track record. like lead babies from china bad fillers are no good. stick with adderrall contact adderall at http://www.adderallxr.com/about_adderallxr/about-works.asp

Hi Saj-

Thanks for the input. Of course, since you’re pointing out the sketchy tricks of the pham industry, you should also mention the flip side to that argument. It’s not a “price reduction”, per se, as the brand name Adderall price didn’t significantly drop. The market opened to legally allow new companies to compete with Adderall, because the patents ran out. It’s odd that you would characterize that as a “price reduction.”

You probably know that pharm companies devise nifty new ways to sell their products once their patent runs out and it goes generic. So for instance, Prozak tweaks on little thing about its chemical makeup, then re-markets itself as a diet pill. Adderall chops itself into little pieces, puts itself in a capsule, and calls itself extended release. Thus, like magic, a new patent exists for “Adderall XR.”

So it then becomes important to market this new drug, Adderall XR, and to smear generic competitors, possibly with Internet spam. Is that where you come in?

I’m glad to see I’m not the only one this month! January’s prescription filled at Walgreens turned out to be pink. At first I thought the pharmacy gave me the wrong pills! I was scared to even take them. This is the same pharmacy my husband and I use each month. No one mentioned the change. These pills definetly are not the same. This must be new because I could not find anything on drugs.com or the FDA website about this generic brand.

Brandy and others-

Please see the recent comment by Brad L. to my other post, “The New Pink Adderall.”
http://loveadderall.wordpress.com/2007/07/08/the-new-pink-adderall/

According to Brad, Walgreen’s will carry the pink pills exclusively from now on. No more orange generics.

What an eye opener you guys! I have had the same questions! My boys have lots of the same symptoms after recently switching from brand Adderall to generic. I was VERY hesitant to switch.
My Pharmacist is a friend of many years, and still, with his last breath he will say Generic is THE SAME … EQUAL TO THE BRAND!! I say NOT! For one thing, It has been documented by those who are not afraid to stir the pot briskly … that after a generic medication is approved, that is probably the last time it will ever be checked by independent authority, for how close to the original “recipe” it is. Why should they allocate dollars for quality control? The pill factory does not have a recognized name to protect.
My Chemical Engineer friends say “A chemical is the same from bottle to bottle. By rule, ingredients are listed from most to least on labels from food to cleaning products … If the ingredients match you have the same product so why buy the expensive brand?’ And I say, sometimes so … sometimes not. For one thing there is no way to know how much ‘filler’ is used.
In respect of being the consumer, YOU DO have a choice which brand of generic you prefer. Your preference is based on which one makes you feel the best for the longest …duh! You have a prescription for a medication, given by a doctor that has to back up his belief that it is necessary. PERIOD.. Talk to the pharmacist …. He doesn’t have personal experience of all those medications! The headaches, and the tight muscles, appetite or no appetite are individual metabolic reactions to the certain chemicals. One might say an “allergic” reaction. Headache is an undesired allergic reaction. It is your body creating tension in response to …. The Aspartamine, Saccharate or Sulfate in the GENERIC formula of Adderall. My boys have taken Adderall for many years, and never had adverse physical reactions that they do now with generic. Their meds are a daily necessity around our home! …. And I do question why, after all the noise about Saccharine and NutraSweet, it would put it in a pill and dispensed to our children! People had headaches after Saccharine products in the 70’s and it was taken off the market.
Thank you M. Frederick Voorhees, for starting this forum to gather data … and to all for taking time to share your responses. In all these years I never thought about going to the computer to compare a medication that is so “protected” it requires a triplicate prescription. I plan to find a product that does not give one son headaches and the other one tight/sore muscles. Now that I know they are not alone with that complaint!!
Medication is supposed to make you feel better. Until the time in the future that we human beings learn to replicate the effect of a medication by our introspection then alteration of our individual energy systems, we will continue to take a pill. That is simply understood at this time. It is part of the degeneration time period. Change is at the horizon though, changes in the direction of learning how powerful our energy systems can be when we work together … but that is my soap box, sorry. … As it is that I am a “Senior Citizen” I can say, everyone I know that has passed into the other dimension … had a shoebox full of daily medications before they died! What came first, the Chicken or the egg?
Linda C.

I also take 20 mg generic Adderall. I had been on the oval ones, but got a round one (orange) in NYC last summer - SO much better.

I found the round ones here where I live after that, and they have been great. They were pink. Now all of the pharmacies have switched to the peach-colored oval ones (and I live in a major metropolitan area).

THE OVAL ONES SUCK! They make me jittery as all get out, but worse, they disjoint my head. I’m also hungrier, although that’s not as important to me as being able to focus. Even my friends have been asking me if I have been forgetting to take my medication.

I really don’t know what to do. It seems that only the Barr manufactured type (the oval ones) are now going to be available here. The Pharrmacor (I’m pretty sure that was the name on the round ones) are gone.

I think that the oval ones must be cheaper. I’m screwed.

I have been taking the oval-shaped orange adderall for years and loved them. I just recently got the hot pink ones and can not stand them. All they do is make me sleepy and not want to do anything. My doctor even said that they sucked. All these companies that are trying to get the cheapest generic adderall are screwing us. Its not even worth taking adderall anymore if the pink pills are the new generic. I just cant find a pharmacy that carries the old kind. Does anyone know where I can get my old orange pills that work wonders!! Please help!!

I have taken d-amphetamine, before adderral came out it was dexedrine. Actually, aderrall is superior. I agree too that the Searle lab adderrall (orange) is more bioactive. This is due to many factors including binders, shelf life and most importantly the manufacturing of the compound. If the amphetamine is synthesized from phenylpropanolamine (PPA) the old school, recalled Dexatrim ingredient, the drug can be jittery because it was made by cheap labs. They likely do further refining of name brand, fractioning out only the preferred part. However, there are other generic amphetamine from overseas that are hella fucking strong at the same mg strength. They don’t have stuff here. A word of caution: Keep your body and esp. your mouth hydrated with biotene and H2O or you will loose you teeth NO BULLSHIT. Isn’t that a nice parting thought for you amphetamites

I’m soooo glad I found these comments!!! My suspicions have now been substantiated….my last refill (at Walgreens) was not my usual 20mg orange pill, but a 20 mg pink pill and I kept thinking something wasn’t quite right. I have been unproductive, unmotivated and feeling generally tired all week…..now I know why!!
Thanks to everyone for sharing!!!

ATTN: FlipFlops; Linda C.; Blair; Brandy; EquiPro and any other “Pink (COR 135)” Adderall administrants

On January 16, 2008 I wrote in this blog about Walgreens not notifying me about the change in generic Adderall that I usually take, which is the orange pill with the label ‘b 973′ by Barr Labrotories 20mg 2X/day, to the new ‘cor 135′ by CorePharma 20mg 2X/day, thereby giving me the ‘Pinks’ (I was also confused and immediately asked the pharmacist who explained the whole ordeal).

I recently went to CVS Pharmacy (2.5.08) and they still carry the orange version!!!

I know that when I had my 30 day 60 count prescription filled, I REQUESTED to see the kind/version of Adderall they carried and would use to fill the ’script; They now carry both Barr Laboratories and CorePharma generics.

I live in Houston (Clear Lake City to native Houstonians) TX and hope you all have the best of luck trying CVS or somewhere besides Walgreens to fill your ’scripts since it does not matter to the insurance company (FYI: I use Cigna) from where you get your meds.

If anybody would like to email me regarding any questions they might have or for whatever reason: .

***NOTICE: I am not a doctor, nurse, pharmacist, pharmacuetical
rep or anybody with any medical bakcground; I am only law student who is interested in the personal knowledge of individuals whom have personal experience with this medication and no vested interest in the medical or pharmacological fields. I find your input to be less bias since your are not defending your profession.***

Wow! All of a sudden this topic has blown up. Thank you to whomever has linked to it. The more people we have participating in this dialog, the better.

As many of you noted, what’s most useful about Internet forums is that we don’t have a professional agenda. It’s hard for me to trust information that comes from official, so-called “credible” sources because most research is paid for by funding agencies who have a financial stake in the results.

I am now more committed than ever to getting to the bottom of this.

Hi Linda C.–

I was intrigued by your comment that “It has been documented by those who are not afraid to stir the pot briskly … that after a generic medication is approved, that is probably the last time it will ever be checked by independent authority, for how close to the original “recipe” it is.”

I’m not surprised at all that that’s how things are handled, even though most of our pharmacists will deny it. Do you have specific sources I could cite, as far as the “pot stirrers”? I’d love to be able to cite something concrete that Walgreen’s won’t be able to just brush off.

Yes, I do … well sort of …. I don’t know how “recognized these folks are. I cut out the article from the Dallas newspaper, over a year ago. I can’t put my fingers on it right now as I packed up a bunch of things to do some painting/remodeling in office area. We share this same pet peeve though, and you can be sure as soon as I get back into the boxes I will send the relevant names etc. on to you through this post. Or you may e-mail me directly for questions, I’ll recognize your name.
It is an emotional fight, and we are quite powerless. My Dad, having had Parkinson’s for many years, knew the generic form of one of the main drugs sinnemint (phonetic spelling) did little, to quiet the symptoms. His Doctor agreed and always wrote his script for name brand. Years passed, my folks lost prescription coverage with Medicare, but continued with name brand until one day the Pharmacist gave him generic. He was pleased with the savings in dollars but he died suddenly before the month was out. …. I clench my teeth and shake my fist still …. But the Insurance companies are in total control of the value of the dollar in this country. You may think it is the government, banks, or advertising/media companies, but they do not have their thumb over our heads like the insurance industry…. Banks do not own the largest buildings in this country, Insurance Companies do. ….. and to think …. Health Insurance was created around the late 1940’s as a perk big business could offer to acquire and keep most qualified white collar workers. When I was a child, in the 50’s normal folks didn’t have insurance, it wasn’t necessary. A Doctor’s visit was usually less than $7. … a required hospital stay was within manageable limits for working families… For instance; hospital for baby’s birth and room for 2-3 days, $150.00 to $200.00 … That was before insurance “providers” stepped in between, with their hands out in all directions. Sure insurance was a resource for growth of medical and pharmaceuticals … I personally think they have gotten too big for their britches!! … there I go again…. … it is late.
I can say the cost difference is quite a lot between name Adderall and generic. We do not have medical coverage since the boy’s Dad died a few years ago. Name Adderall 20mg was +$600.00/month Generic is less than $300.00 for both boys. Just gotta’ make it work. I’m very glad I stumbled on your forum! Everyone’s comments have cleared up so many questions. Thanks to all! …. Linda C.

The pink ones do not work as well as the orange!! It’s killing me!

It is interesting to see that this post has heated up since the beginning of 2008. I have been taking the Adderall 30mg Peach OVAL-Shaped tablets (imprinted with b 974 on the back) for about a year now. Last month however, to my surprise, I noticed that I received pink tablets which were round and smaller in size. My first thought was that these pills were noticeably smaller than the peach ones. Then logic seemed to tell me that they could not have the same amount of ingredients because of this difference in size. Then, I started to rationalize things, and I thought about the “density” of the pills. It did seem to me that the peach pills weren’t quite as dense as these pink ones. So, I didn’t worry about it anymore, and I figured that they must be “all the same.” However, after having taken these pink pills for about 1 month, and now having run out days before my prescription is to be re-filled (due to taking a higher than normal dose on some days), coupled with the fact that I’ve stumbled across this intriguing thread - I’ve now convinced myself that these pink tablets are not as strong as the Peach generic 30mg tablets! I think Linda C. may be onto something about the lack of governmental oversight that is given to these Pharmaceutical companies once a drug goes off-patent and goes generic! Lets cross our fingers and hope that this will be a mild recession…

well, i too just went to walgreens this past wednesday for my refill and discovered a bottle of round pink pills. very odd. the month before they had said the pills may look different, but they didn’t and i forgot about it. i’ve only been taking them for5 days, but i don’t like them. i can’t really tell how i feel, but i just want to sleep and have some serious cottonmouth. i was wondering what the difference was and that immediately led me to this site, which has been extremely helpful and verified some of my suspicions. i did also find that the CorePharma company that manufactures the new pink pills was started in 1998 verses 1970 or 72 for the Barr company that makes the normal peachy oval generics. That this company has barely been operating 10 years really freaks me out. obviously there is a difference, because we’ve all noticed it. That can’t be a coincidence. I’m going to check walmart and cvs to see if they still carry the Barr generics and let you guys know. i’m lucky to have an insurance company that supports non generic and am thinking about switching to those, although i’ve never taken them. what i’m wondering is if there’s a big difference in effect between the non generic (which seems to be round and orange?) and the normal oval peach generics manufactured by the Barr corporation. Anybody have an opinion?

I am all aboard the “pink adderall sucks” train. I was diagnosed with adult ADHD about 2 years ago. I was originally prescribed 20mg Focalin XR; which had very little affect on my ablility to concetrate, AND gave me a wicked headache. After 2 months, I pleaded with my doctor to try something else–eventually we settled on 20mg adderall (not XR) twice a day—and I have always gotten the orange generics. It took my body a little while to adjust (ie, no appetite and I lost a bunch of weight I didn’t need to lose, and some bouts with insomnia–both issues rectified within the first couple of months) but for my BRAIN, it was like freaking Christmas! Anyway, I went to refill my script over the weekend, and the line was ridiculous at CVS so I went to a family-owned drugstore instead. They gave me the pink generics. First of all, maybe it was the pharmacy, but they were $30 more! Also, they make me feel really tense and REALLY irritable. Not only that, but my concentration level has plummetted, I’m completely exhausted, have a horrible taste in my mouth, and just like the Focalin, when they wear off (which is after about *3* hours) BAM–headache city. What I want to know is, can I take them back to the pharmacy and like, upgrade to the non-generic Adderall? It would be worth the extra money, and cheaper for me than going back for another doctor visit (no insurance right now.) Any advice would be awesome–thanks!

G:

I really do empathize with you. However, I have mainly bad news with a hint of good news (although without insurance it might not be that good). I have written a few posts about this pharmacy dilemma also, and CVS was the only pharmacy that still carried the Barr Laboratories ‘b 973′ stamped generic addy (usually I use Walgreens who started using the pink CorePharma ‘Cor 135′). I too feel EXACTLY the same negative symptoms you describe.

Now for the answer to your question:

1) Can you take it back to the pharmacy and exchange for Non-generic Addy?

Unfortunately, the answer is no. The reason why is because the FDA has deemed this medicine a Schedule II narcotic because it contains Amphetamines, and Amphetamines are one grade directly under Meth-amphetamine; this means it is categorized in the class of most ‘carefully’ and ‘regulated’ types of drugs by the D. E. A. (Vicodin & Oxycotin are also Schedule II).

The only class more regulated is Schedule I narcotics that are NEVER under any circumstances prescribed (Heroin, Cocaine, Meth-amphetamine, etc).

The pharmacy cannot not take back any medicine given out to a patient/customer because of health regulations (would you want medicine someone else was previously administered?) and because legally they cannot alter the directives of the Physician.

Addtionally, buying ‘Brand’ Addy is much more expensive than generic, so w/o insurance you would be probably pay close to 4x’s as much on ‘Brand’ addys.

The good news is not much better, but if you have your heart set on obtaining the ‘Brand’ addys, setup another Dr. appt and tell him/her about the situation with the new generics and ask him/her to make a ‘prescription change’ notifying the pharmacist you can only be given ‘Brand’. Since it is not a refill, the pharmacy can fill the prescription again (those of you with insurance might have to get the pharmacist to call the insurance company and get an approval) but don’t be surprised if the pharmacists don’t believe you at first should you even convince your doctor to re-issue a new ’script. Most Doctors will make you wait ’til next month if the symptoms are not fatal and/or you’re not having an allergic reaction.

Hope this is helpful.

I take 40mg of Adderall per day (20mg in morning, then i split a 20 in 2 pieces and take it after lunch and after dinner). I have been on Adderall for a long time (about 11 years). Like many of you, I recently had my prescription filled at the local Walgreens and was suprised to see these pink pill’s, not the regular generic orange oval shaped one’s. Needless to say, I didn’t think anything of it and took them as I normally do. I have come to the conclusion that these pills are definitly inferior to the orange one’s. I am seeing the opinion that the orange one’s tend to make people ‘jittery’ or ‘lose there appetite’. I agree with that, however, the pink one’s almost seem to do nothing at all!! I went back to my pharmacist and told him that these pills were not working, but he told me that “it is most likely in your head”. I expected him to say that, so I told him the truth…I have been taking Adderall, whether it was generic or the actual brand name, for over 11 years, and NEVER had this reaction. He still shruged it off and told me there wasnt anything he could do about it and maybe I should try out a new pharmacy that still carried the older orange one’s. I was kind of surprised he said that, but I do understand I am just one person and the truth is they have plenty of clients. Next time I get my adderall filled I will just make sure they arent using the pink one’s, I guess that’s all I can do!!

Very typical response from a pharmacist, and to be expected.

It seems Walgreen’s, as well as many Universities, have signed contracts with CorePharma (pink brand). CVS still carries the Barr Laboratories brand, to my knowledge.

I’ve been reading quite a bit about the brand/generic controversy, and most discussions mirror the one above. About 25% say no difference, about 75% say big difference…and generally one high and mighty jerk who accuses everyone of being addicts, and a second loser needle drug abuser trying to make jerk #1 seem like they have a valid point.

Among real patients who report seeing a difference between formulations though, those noted differences aren’t consistent between people.

That makes sense as people metabolize everything differently. But I’d encourage people to read the ingredients on your pills as this can give you some good insight. It seems like a lot of folks are unaware of the formula differences and only tell pills apart by color or shape.

But those compositional differences are listed right there on the prescription so you can see which combos work better/worse for you - this is going to be more meaningful longer term than colors and shapes which can and do change.

Currently, I’ve read that brand adderall contains 4 different amphetamine salts (2 forms of d-amphetamine and 2 forms of l-amphetamine.) Generics typically contain less. The pink COR 135 ones I have now contain 2 (1 each of d-amph and l-amph.) The orange generics my mail order pharmacy sends have just 1(l-amphetamine).

I have heard that theoretically, d-amphetamine is “milder” (it actually affects brain chemistry differently so this is a simplification). That could mean less laser focus, but less insomnia and jitteriness as well.

My guess, based on what everyone is posting above and elsewhere, is that whichever works better for you is going to depend on how sensitive you are to the drug, how bad your ADD is, etc. For me, more d-amphetamine is better because it works well without being overwhelming - the single ingredient orange ones hit me like a hammer and feel like a street drug. For someone less sensitive, they may feel that the single-ingredient ones work well and the dual COR 135’s “don’t work at all.”

I think that some judicious individual research into the proportion of different salts used in each type of generic, and your individual reaction to those, could probably help everyone determine what their own best mix is…and provide some ammunition for arguing with psychiatrists and insurance companies about what to provide.

(Side note - my guess about those people who report really bad allergic reactions to different formulations is what the above poster said - a reaction to the fillers used in a particular generic. I don’t think the different amphetamine salts are different enough to be fine in one case and hospital-inducing in the next.)

Disclaimer - I’m not a doctor, not a pharmacist; just summarizing my own experience, research and thoughts.

wow. Iknew it! I have been exhausted lately…. never happened until the pink.

I ran across this blog by googling “cor 135″ and am so relieved by the general concensus…cor 135 is insuperior, and for many is not only ineffective but deletarious. I am on day 6 of the “pink pill”, and will not take it ever again. I have been depressed, unmotivated, disconnected, tired, short, dehydrated and had a strange heart episode on day 4 where my heart skipped a beat and then beat double time for over five minutes then skipped again and resumed normal rhythm. I usually get the “orange” generics (the “hammers” as the poster above might refer to them ;-)…and I love them, perhaps even too much. I feel driven, creative, social, interested–almost invinsible (I experiented with cocaine in the past looking for these sensations, but it never fulfilled its promises.) I was afraid that I had developed a dependency and was simply “chasing the dragon” at this point, but after reading the responses on this thread, feel very comforted, though a bit angry that “cor 135s” are being passed off as a good generic substitute for Adderoll. Take heart “orange” lovers, they might have duped us once, but they can’t do it twice!

Walgreen’s sucks.

Pink Adderall sucks.

I got this pink pile of fail from Walgreen’s a month ago. I thought it was working until two weeks into it I realized my world was crashing around me in an obvious-to-everyone-but-me revelation. In the previous two weeks my wife had told me I had been acting funny. I had been extremely tired, irrationally angry and at my job, work was being returned to me with triple the amount of errors I would normally get. It was like I wasn’t taking anything at all. Things actually got worse when I stopped taking it completely so I had to skip doses so I could double the dosage when I really needed it and even that wasn’t enough. I survived the month and was able to find the Barr Adderall at a horrible place called Rite-Aid. I also found out that Wal-Mart carries it but they were out of stock and wouldn’t have any in for another 6 days, which is no help at all.

This whole experience has made me feel like a drug addict more than ever. I have taken Adderall for about 5 years for ADD and OCD. I am completely dependant on this drug to function and so is everyone in my life. My job depends on Adderall to keep me as an employee, my wife depends on Adderall to keep her husband and my daughter depends on Adderall to grow up with a father. I view this pink joke as an attack on my family and I desperately want to see this taken off the shelves. I’m not stupid enough to think that I can make a difference but I would like to know if anyone knows what would make a difference. What has to happen for the FDA or any credible medical or even news organization to look into this?

I picked up a bottle of these the other day. The pharmacist was like “Oh by the way, they sent me a different brand on this order but they’re the same thing.” So i took them, went home and started using them. These things are ridiculous. I cannot fathom how they passed the FDA. The potency is markedly less than the orange barr version. Also it seems to me the potency varies greatly from one pill to the next. Taking these pink pills spawned from hell for ADD is like playing russian roulette, except the gun is loaded with no-doz and ephedrine.

i’m so glad to find i’m not the only one experiencing this nightmare. i feel like i have been cheated. been prescribed to taking 1 20 orange each day since eigth grade and now i’m a junior in college and recently got upped to 2 20s a day (orange). i just got a bottle full of cute little pink pills and just thought the color had changed for some reason but after taking one about 20 minutes later i was extremely pissed off and confused. THEY DONT F’IN WORK. i think its bs that i wasnt even informed of this change by the pharmacists. now i’m stuck with this crap that i might as well flush down the toilet and i have to wait another month before another script. Not to mention i have a huge test to study for. i would rather not take anything at all than take pink sugar pills that make me feel like crap. wow thanks corepharma for a month of horrible headaches and bad grades. i dont know anything about the the orange and pink chemical make up but one thing is for sure, its NOT the same. It sucks and needs to be either a) given a different name like “shit form of adderall” or b) taken off the shelf. i think that pharmacies should at least tell you before they fill your script when they change their addereall to pink so you’ll know and wont be absolutely SCREWED till the next month (when i will be dang sure before its filled that i’m getting orange)

Luckily I have the teacher thing going so my ins covers brand name. I just wanted to add to the coversation my experience with Adderall XR. I love it. It’s smoother than regular dose. I’m sure it’s because the little balls (which are supposed to dissolve in 2 doses) actually dissolve gradually. I know I lot of people like that euphoric spike, but I have my issues with it. I feel like I can’t make good decisions when I’m all euphoric. Like… I get too creative and pie in the sky. I’m a first year teacher and totally crazy busy. I find myself committing to more duties/projects when I get all adderall-happy. My plate is full so adding more ideas and projects is counterproductive to this ADDkid. Point is… Adderall XR is smoother and still effective. I was just marvelling the other day that I finally feel like how I’m supposed to feel on this stuff. Slightly more focused and slightly up. I don’t feel like I’m aware of being on stimulants all the time. This, according to my dr (who’s the ADD med specialist on Webmd), this is how it’s supposed to feel. Hoorah.
On the subject of getting good information on Adderall… So frustrating. I feel like I’m never getting the whole story no matter where I turn. Either people have an agenda or I can just tell that they aren’t taking a good look (and I can tell that I know more than they do just because I have access to the internet).

Love this blog. I feel less isolated in my Adderallworld.

I have been prescribed the 30mg “orange” adderall for a very long time. This month I filed my prescription at the same pharmacy I always do and got the pink round pills (CVS in FL). I have been taking them for a week and I notice quite a difference. I am not even sure if it is the strength, it seems like a slightly different drug. It feels different than taking 25 or 20 or 15mg of the regular stuff, not necessarily weaker, just different. I am very interested in your idea to try a controlled study. If I can get my next script filled with the regular stuff I would be interested in doing the same thing and comparing results. Do you know which pharmacies sill dispense the orange pills?

I found this site by searching for “pink adderall”. I thought nothing of it when they filled the script (generic is generic, right?) but I noticed a difference in effect and felt compelled to research. The other comments on this board seem very insightful as well. If you or anyone here would like to talk about this issue or ADD and meds in general; please feel free to email me at rudager1066(at)yahoo(dot)com.

john

John-

CVS still carries the orange, Barr laboratories generic version.

Honestly, after following this blog for the past week, I feel as if something should be done. If the “pink pills” don’t work, they should not be on the market, or at very least, they should not be the sole generic substitute that a pharmacy carries. I’m going to start with talking to my doctor and pharmacist. Perhaps if there was a “grassroots” movement against this BULLSHIT atleast the consumer voice would be heard. If anyone has any suggestions, please post.

I am useless on this shit, although I can’t stop taking it until the end of this week because the withdrawal is brutal (I tried yesterday and the day before) and I’m in the middle of mid-terms, and don’t even have time to sleep 6 hours a day much less 12-14.

If only I had some b-973s :(

Hi Hannathema-

I hope your docs/pharmacists are more informed/honest than mine have been.

The problem is that few, if any, of the so-called “experts” who claim there’s no difference have actually taken the medications–certainly not for as long as we have.

I just wanted to give you my input as well. I completely agree with the posters about the pink adderall being ineffective. It seems to have the OPPOSITE effect on me , making me tired, cranky and almost lethargic. So now…I too have a half full bottle of adderall, waiting for the next month to come, and NOT filling it at Walgreens. I feel cheated as well and want my money back.

I’m so glad I found this blog; I thought I was going crazy, or that the pharmacy had given me the wrong pills by mistake!! My mail order pharmacy recently switched to the little pink Corepharma 20 mg pills from hell…I used to take the Barr. Anyway, the past few days on the pink pills have been miserable, to say the least. I’ve been extremely tired, irritable, unfocused, depressed and jittery. I find myself falling asleep at work or worse, behind the wheel. I feel cheated and also think something needs to be done about getting these “pink imposters” off the market asap!!

I’m on the same train as most of you other folks. the pink pills are absolutely awful compared to the orange pills.

I would love to give walgreens some insight about this crap they are pulling on us. I have never been so infuriated over medicine’s as I am about this situation.

goodbye to walgreens and hello to whoever else sells the orange pills!

I have been reading everyone’s posts and now (not unusual for me) I’m even more confused than before, but at least I know I’m not alone. I have, for years been taking amph. salts 30 mg which are round and orange. Great. Yesterday I filled my perscription and they are a lighter color (more pinkish, too) and oval. They taste sweeter than the others that I was used to, and I’ve had to take twelve of them in the last two days (a joke - but you get the point) .
From what I can gather, we are all having similar issues but with different pills…can anyone clarify?

okay guys, so my cousing wasn’t crazy when she said last week I had an episode where “you looked like you,,,,,but it wasn’t you”. IE, I scared her with just a look. Now in Jan, my pharmacy (private small town owned) subd half my script with the new pink crap. I normally take the 30mg Barr (orange). Since then, I have had several episodes, im not me, and it really scares me. My hair has started thinning, flushing, etc. I had to stop taking it. I can’t afford to talk to the DR. for a while, as I am a poor college junior. The pharmacy I know will be no help, as they ran out mid month Feb and I had to go 2 weeks without it. I have three exams next week, and my 4.0 gpa has already started slipping.
I depend on this gpa for financial aid, I depend on this medication to actually function as a human being. I am also an artist, so obviousely my work has been affected. I am one pisses off 29 yr old, and I used to be a journalist, so if there is anything that I can do, let me know……I have always been the little voice that could. In other words, I speak my mind and will do anything to protect my future in society….

oh, and if anyone would like to email me, jennifer.rendleman@ttu.edu

I am a “recreational” user of adderall. I remember the first time I took one, which was around this time last year. It was a 30 mg, orange, and round. I have NEVER been that into my history book in my LIFE. Obviously as I continued to take it, I am not so excited about every single thing people are saying to me, but I can still focus amazingly on them. I usually take the orange 20mgs but I recently stubbled across the pink ones. I wasn’t sure what they were and I’ve been trying to find out, until I found this site, thankfully. I just wanted to be sure it was adderall. I’m not sure whether or not I see a difference. My friend, who was obviously misinformed, told me they were 40mg. Obviously not true. But I was only taking a half because I thought that was 20mg, and I like to keep my adderall for as long as possible while still taking it everytime I “need” it, so breaking it in half to get what I thought was 20mg seemed smart, until I didn’t really get any result. Now that I know they are actually only 20mg (thank you everyone) I will be taking the whole one. Regardless though, I don’t like to take chances when I am super tired, need to be wide awake, or focused. So I still have a few orange ones for when I really do need the boost. And I’ll take the pink ones when I just kind of need a boost.

Hollie, let us know if you notice a difference.

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M. Frederick Voorhees wrote @ March 5, 2008 at 3:24 pm

John-

CVS still carries the orange, Barr laboratories generic version.

–Thank you. I made a mistake, I received the COR135 pink adderall from Walgreens. I used to go to CVS and got them confused when I posted I double checked with my receipt - Walgreens.

I will try CVS this month, and I will be asking before they fill the script. I do not hesitate to ask the pharmacist what they are selling me and I will go to another store if they do not have what I am looking for.

To anyone else - don’t be nervous. You are a customer with a script, you are not a criminal and should never be embarrassed to make sure you are getting the meds that work best in your situation.

I have taken the Pink all month, They do not seem to work at all I kept falling asleep sitting at my desk or when I was on the way home from work my wife said I would be a sleep within a couple of minutes of getting in the car. So as far as I’m concerned the PINK are not wright and everybody I speak with seem to agree. except those that we need to agree. I’m going to go pick up my Barr orange generic from Walmart after work today and will let you know how the next few days go.

I started on the pink yesterday. Is it normal to be jitty and really hyper? I am having weird episodes on this drug. I’ve never been on ADD meds before. But I am going back up to Kmart and asking for brand name because my doctor wrote down “Adderall” On my prescription slip. But I was given these pink generic ones. My insurance covers brand name. And I thought they usually ask if you want generic or brand name?
I was going to call my doctor in the morning and tell him about my episodes and ask if he knew about these pills? And I was going to mention the reviews on it and the point I cant seem to find it anywhere online. And point out the point he wrote down “Adderall” On the prescription slip.
Any advice?

Sorry about the stinky pinkies. They must be REALLY awful if they compare so poorly to the Barr 20s, which I’m convinced are near useless counterfeits of Shire brand Adderall 20s. Or I WAS convinced. This month I paid the requisite extra for brand, now manufactured, coincidentally, by Barr, the proud new owner of the IR Adderall brand. They look right but they’re not. I paid for brand and got familiar generic “quality”. I’ve never tried XR, but Barr, to me, is a lost cause. I’m asking my doc for the Shire XR on my next appointment.

A world without ’stinky pinkies’ would be great and Goat is right, when they are making Barr look good, they are bad news…

I am 24 and extremely ADD as well as a recovering self injurer. I have been treating my ADD for 7 years now. I was use to getting generics, but Walgreen’s gave me a generic different than my usual generics. They would not switch them out or give me my RX back. I tried taking them for a couple of days. The new pills don’t help my ADD much. They make me anxious and Jittery, My mind races with thoughts that I normally would not have. I can’t sit still and all I can think about is harming my self! I called the pharmacist and he told me to come in. I went in and all he did was telling me he could do nothing! He could have told me that over the phone! He then told me to keep taking them, “All generics are the same.” Well not these! I called my DR but the earliest appointment is in June! I am taking them because I have trouble focusing on a task at work without something. They help in that way a tinny bit, no where near how my original generics worked! I wonder if I double my dose if they will help me focus more. Although I will run out half way threw the month. But I keep thinking about slicing my wrist open, and other ways to bleed so the jitteriness will stop. I have not had thoughts about harming myself in years! I am afraid to keep taking these, I NEED something. But the pharmacist keeps telling me to keep taking them! I can go to work ok on them. I just fell like I need to cut my veins open to let all the jitteriness out. I don’t know what to do! My Dr Office will not give me another RX so I can flush these. Any recommendations? Please! Has any one had this problem before? I don’t want to harm myself, yet I don’t want to loose my job. I fell I need to take these because they help a little, even if they make me suicidal. What should I do? Poetic_dreamer@live.com

i just got the cor (pink) ones after taking the barr (orange) for around 2 years. the first thing that i noticed, similar to everyone else, was that i actually felt hungry, an hour after i took them. also, simlar to everyone else, i didn’t feel as motivated to do anything. however, when i finally got around to doing things, the level of focus i experienced was similar (a bit less actually) to the barr tabs.

i haven’t decided if i like the cor’s or the barr’s yet because they seem to have different (side) effects that are both pro’s and cons.

the definite pro (from the cor’s) is that i’m not forgetting to eat. over the course of the last two years, i have lost over 20 pounds - which i didn’t mind at first, but was starting to worry me as of late.

another positive aspect is that i noticed my concentration wasn’t just for concentration sake - that is, i’m not uber focused on some useless task, thinking it was important - only to find out later that i really didn’t need to rewrite some code after all. this aspect of cor’s is also part of it’s draw back. the razor focus i used to get from barr’s helped me get a ton of good work done - albeit only when my focus was pointed in the right direction. but, as mentioned before, this overwhelming focus made me shove aside the “big picture” while dwelling on the minutiae. the cor’s on the other hand, help in that i’m able to get distracted a little (i’m sure for some, this is a con) - enough for me to reevaluate what i’m doing. still, with that said, the amount of “good” work i used to extract from the barr’s seems to be a bit more than the cor’s - even with the wasted time.

another con of the cor’s is that it doesn’t pop me up as much when i’m tired. now this wakefulness definitely helps you focus on your tasks at hand, especially when you’re sleep deprived. basically, the superman effect from the barr’s is gone from the corr’s.

finally, the biggest con of the corr’s is the frequency of the headaches - god the headaches! if actually feels like ritalin on the headache factor (remember those?).

i think the problem that most people are facing is exactly what another poster said earlier - you’re going through withdrawl! i find that when i stop taking adderall for a bit, i experience EXTREME fatigue, along with the mood swings, grogginess, and the anxiety that accompanies it. i think that this is attributed to the fact that you require far less sleep when on the barr’s. to further convince me that the lack of sleep (rather than the sheer crappiness of the pinkies) is killing your energy/focus is that, after getting a few days of “good” sleep, while taking the cor’s (you can’t help but to fall asleep earlier), the efficacy of the drug increased substantially. however, being a new business owner, i sometimes need the crazy energy to stay up all night and produce quality work - sadly, the cor’s do not seem to work as well in those situations.

it seems that if you’re trying to work 20 hours a day, go for the barr’s. if you’re trying to get some semblance of a normal life, go for the cor’s - just make sure you’re getting enough sleep.

i’m not really making a judgment call (yet), as i’ve only been on the pinkos for about a week and a half. if my position changes, i’ll write up another post. on a side note, my desire to smoke cigarettes increases on both the orange and the pink. my girl is still pissed.

ps. i just received some barr’s from a friend of mine and i’m gonna try 2 things in the coming days. 1. take em after taking 2 days off the cor’s, and 2. mix the orange and the pink together. i’ll let you know the details if i survive.

Drink beer with the pink ones.

(I posted this on another thread, figured is should be poster here too…)

Just wanted to add my 2cents….

I’ve been taking either adderall or dexidriene for what…at least 5 years now. So last week my doc. switches me back over to adderall as the pharmacy (Wallgreens) was evidently concerned about me getting 120 10mg Dexedrine tablets every month..So he switched me back to 60 20mg adderall (same dosage, less # of pills).

So anyway I asked for the generic @ walgreens and then the person at the counter then asked the pharmacist if they had the generic in stock….His response? “Uh…we have something similar”.That should have been a big red flag. But I didn’t inquire any further b/c I’ve been on generic AD’s before, and figured he was just talking about BARR’s version…WRONG!!

Well I got the pink corepharma CRAP…About 3 days later im feeling sick, weak, disoriented and downright depressed….THE POLAR OPPOSITE OF THE WAY I FEEL ON ADDERALL “What in the hell is this stuff?” I wondered. Finally I began to do some research and found like 100’s of complaints about this SHIT! Sorry for my language but THIS IS NOT ADDERALL!! NOT EVEN CLOSE! How on gods earth is corepharma/Wallgreens able to market this CRAP as Adderall!!???? Words cannot desrcibe how pissed I am right now….Come Monday morning im going straight to the pharmacy manager then straight back to my doc…All hell is going to break loose if I can’t get another prescription (TO BE FILLED @ CVS W/BARR) b/c simply put MY BODY CAN’T HANDLE THIS POISON!!

If any lawyers happen to come across this please investigate corepharma’s “Pink Generic Adderall”….Someone is going to make millions on a class action lawsuit against corepharma beacuse THIS IS NOT ADDERALL!

Just wanted to add that I have experienced withdrawal symptoms before and I am definitely NOT experiencing withdrawal symptoms due to the new (corepharmcrap) prescription. I’ve been experiencing the following symptoms: Disorientation, Nausea, Headaches (I NEVER get headaches) twitchy-ness and overall just feel like shit….Honest to god I feel better when Im NOT taking these pills…A couple diet cokes make me feel better than one 20mg copharmcrap “adderal “!!!

Anyway like I’ve said I’ve experienced adderall/Dexedrine withdrawal symptoms in the past. And trust me, these side effects are much much worse than any withdrawal i’ve ever faced. Personally im better off not taking them as they do more harm then good

I’ve taken both and currently have a choice(given to me by my dr.) of the brand name orange 30mg,
the pink 30mg, and adderal xr 30mg. I can assure you they are all the same the only difference is in the cost

Garret how long have you been on Adderal?? My bet is you (along with the other 25% that say it’s “the same”) have been on it for less than a year. Or you work for corepharma and are trying to “balance the scales” in your favor….

Like I said earlier I have been on either Dexidriene or Adderal for 5+ years. Adderal and Dex. both have bascially the same affects on me. They both stimulate my central nervous system in such a way that makes concentration easier. In addition they both trigger the secretion dopamine, which makes me feel remarkably “happy”…A good thing as I have long suffered from a minor case of Bi-Polar disorder.

Now this corepharma “stuff” (I will no longer call it Adderall) does none of that. About 30min after I take one I feel “strange”. Im not sure how else to describe it but I feel like stimulated AND spaced out at the same time. About this time I start to get really bad headaches, specifically in the front right side of my head. After about 30min I feel, well…”ok”: I feel like something is slightly working, but it still just doesn’t feel right. After about an hour everything goes south, in a hurry. I don’t necc. feel a “come down” like I do with ADD/DEX, I just feel extremely agitated, and the headaches increase with severity. I feel shaky, nauseous and overall extremely irritable.

To sum it up the 1st 30min to 1 hour on this “stuff” is ok, or should I say “bareable”. However the next 2+ hours afterwards are a downright nightmare. It’s gotten to the point where im afraid to drive in rush hour traffic as one tiny incident will set me into a rage. Im not a mean person by any stretch of the imagination, in fact im quite the opposite, but for whatever reason this “stuff” turns me into a hormone-fueled 18yo looking to do battle.

Adderal/Dex on the other hand “chills” me out, they allow me to relax and take things as they come. I rarely get aggravated as Im almost always in a good mood, no matter how many hours it’s been since I took a pill. Don’t get me wrong, Adderal/Dex do have “come down” effects too, however they are mild and they def. don’t cause me to get inraged!!

Bottom line is corepharma is using an entirely different formulation for there pink “stuff”. It DOES NOT stimulate the central nervous system (this is why you don’t feel the sometimes nasty side effects you feel with Adderal…Heart palpitations, gas etc) and more over it DOES NOT induce the secretion of Dopamine.

Again it BAFFLES me how the FDA allowed corepharma to sell this “stuff” as a generic for Adderall..Perhaps corepharma altered the formulation after it got FDA approval?? Wouldn’t surprise me the least bit…Have you ever been to there website? Looks like some high school student designed it for $100.

This company is a joke and IMO needs to be investigated by the FDA. I guarantee you this “stuff” will be off the market within a year, and in all likely hood corepharma will be sued.

Add extreme dehydration/cotton mouth to the list of nasty side effects. It’s been roughly 5 hours since I took one 20mg (the only one I took all day) and after about 3 hours the dry mouth kicked in hardcore…Im on my what, 7th glass of water in the past 2 hours.

Worst medication I have taken in my entire life, hands down.

Thought I’d give an update:

Went back to the doc and got another sript which I filled @ CVS. Got the orange 20mg BARR and couldn’t be happier….Finally! real adderal!

I will never do business with Walgreens again, or at least untill they stop carrying ALL corepharma generics.

Walgreens: The pharmacy America trusts”……

I have been taking the orange 30 mg generics twice a day for about 4 months now. I also recieved the pink crap from Walgreens the other day. I thought something was strange, but I just figured it was in my head. Until I found this website. For the past 4 days I have been cranky, irritable, and nervous.. I feel like I”m waiting for something to happen but I have no idea what it is. Anxiety, maybe? I called my DR today and got another Rx, took it to my regular pharmacy, and thankfully, got my “old reliable orangies” back. I don’t understand how 2 medications that are supposed to be exactly the same can be so different. It can’t just be a figment of all of our imaginations, could it? Surely a million people cant be wrong.
I have a strange side effect from the oranges though, a couple of hours after my first dose in the AM, my face feels like its twitching or the skin is really tight. It drives me crazy, but not crazy enough to quit taking them. I was wondering if anybody else experiences this, and if theres anything you do to lessen it.

Hi, I was wondering how you guys take the adderall…. I bite it with my front 2 teeth as much as possible till its basically a dust (not by back teeth cause im afraid it’ll get stuck) and then i swallow the dust with a drink of something (my drink of choice, while facing the parched days is Propel - Strawberry) I have swallowed it before but I don’t feel it works as well or hits as hard… maybe something to do with it getting absorbed faster… or maybe i’m crazy….

Let me know if other people are on my dose, I take generic, 20 mg 4 times a day and I notice a huge difference between the pink and the orange, for one price. The price for generic is as follows< $160.00 FOR 120 pills, and $560.00 for the brand name. yikes, i stick with the generic, it does not last long and sometimes I have to take more. The orange ones I would only need like 2. I hate taking it but if I don’t it is la la land.

No matter the color, everyone’s body make-up is unique…..so each result will vary. More importantly, isn’t anyone afraid of growing dependent on this drug? Especially since it’s cleary noticeable when you skip a day or a dose.
This is not a natural drug…and you’re taking it for recreational purposes???… are you kidding me???… are you not worried that you might have an allergic reaction to it and potentially harm you, since it was not prescribed for YOU? Tell me where that makes any good sense.

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Savon pharmacy has corrupted my life. Without any warning, I was switched over to these neato little pink 20mg Adderall I’d never encountered before. I didn’t think too much of it, but I always check up new brands in the realm of generics. To make a long story short; take every single negative aspect that everyone has commented on and compress it into three days. I didn’t even go into it with a negative attitude, I really thought I was being mislead due to the newness of it’s presence in pharmaceutical land. But… these are not Adderall… OK maybe they’re Adderall, but they are Adderall in the sense that activis brand Klonopin is actual clonazepam. Of course, on a scale more unfathomably atrocious.

I’ve never had issues with Tabb or Barr before, but after three days, the remainder of my pills are currently soaked and crumbling in the glistening morning dew of a muggy Texas morning. They are not just inferior, they are downright lacking of any positive benefit whatsoever. I’ve never encountered a product so utterly devoid of any potential for use outside of possibly poisoning barnyard beasts. (and I’ve taken purepac clonazepam!)

Never mind all of the well documented horrendous side effects, the worst part was that these were intentionally given to me with absolutely no information regarding the change in my prescription information, followed by blatant lying that defies any reasonable comprehension, he intentionally placed a few Barr Adderall in it, and when I called to complain that my head was exploding, he chuckled and pointed out to me in a sardonic manner “Hey buddy, did you notice I put a few Barrs in there!?” (this is well after he said that they no longer carried Barr, only Ranbaxy.)

To top it off, when I returned the following day to pick up my girlfriend’s Adderall prescription, he gleefully shook the bottle and commented loudly “Hey look buddy, all Barrs this time!” Oh, and by the way, since I was the one picking it up, judging from his past actions, he decided to coldcock me and short her six pills. Honestly though, I understand, it must have been quite an arduous task for him to roll his slovenly body to the phone, only to hear my raspy, grizzly voice scratch out “Hey, do you carry Teva Klonopin?”

This is also the same man that accused me of committing a felony by transferring my Klonopin prescription to his pharmacy. Which, I promptly debunked, with a call to my old pharmacist and my physician causing many a laugh and truly confounding befuddlement, as the doctor was never called, nor had my old pharmacist contacted him about the transfer. When I called back, he still said he was going to ‘have to report’ me, which didn’t make any sense because there was nothing to report. It was a nigh ethereal moment that I will cherish forever and beyond.

Ovation, grizzly man.

So, I guess what I am trying to say here is that when one describes Savon pharmacy it should only be referred to in a manner akin to a monastery that wreaks of whores and corruption.

Hey megan i know the tingling twitchy feeling your talkin about. At first it scared me, but ive actually grown to kinda enjoy it now. Its when i know the meds are working.

I’m glad to see I’m not the only one experiencing a uselessness over the new and disproved pink pill. It truely sucks.

Even Corepharma’s website sucks, they don’t offer a product catalog like Barr does, so I have no way of telling hoe or whats in their product.

I talkied to walkgreens and the manager tried to convince me that my script said “may sub” yet my photocopy doesnt say that, and I explicitly asked for BRAND NAME!, they still gave me generic. I found out this afternoon on dose two, thinkiong why am I slow freakin wacked and sleepy.

I got nothing done today Thanks corepharma
I guess the medicine from India is cheaper than the medicine in america, and yet if so, that just means Walgreens is making a HUGE profit over its american generic Barr.

I may have to look for another pharmacy, anyone try walmart?

For me, the Ranbaxy generic brand are the only ones that don’t make me sick. They are more potent so I don’t have to take as much. The orange football-shaped ones make me sick, feeling like i’m going out of my mind! I cannot take them.

They are hard to find in my town (the Ranbaxy brand name)…you really have to ask around to find someone who has them. Typically its the mom and pop stores.

I wanted to let you know that I take orange football shaped generic ones, and that they, too, are weaker than the orange name brand ones.
My doctor is also convinced of this, and since my insurance won’t cover crazy pills other than Xanax, I just pay the extra $100 per 90 for the good stuff. I could always have him just give me 30mg of the generic, but I am as concerned about consistency as I am about potency.
Also, the orange footballs are nice and sweet, so I consider them chewable, or I dissolve them under my tongue for a quicker effect. The pink round ones taste like…well, like medicine. Yuck!

I cant believe how many other ppl know that the pink ones suck. they definetley do! there is a HUGE difference beetween the orange and pink 20 mgs. I take 20 mg a day. 1/2 in the morning and then another half a couple hrs later. Well thats on the orange oval 20s. The pink ones u have to take like twice as much! I found out that walmart has the orange generic 20’s. The oval ones. Almost everywhere else has the new pinks that dont even work. so if anyone wants to know where to get the orange generic oval 20 mg..go to WALMART! and..they r very cheap! i will never go anywhere else again! WALMART IS THE BEST! lol.

All of these postings have really cheered me up.

I thought I was loosing it.

I think its a crime to sell these useless pink pills.

I almost convinced myself one evening that I was subject to a large scale placebo experiment.

This medicine (or recent modification thereof) has caused a chain reaction in my behavioral patterns because I thought something else was wrong with me.

How could something have worked for so long before, all of a sudden come to a grinding halt. It’s as if my tolerance for the generic pink 20’s is near double that of its orange oval predecessors.

Thanks for sharing everyone. It’s nice to know the internet still works.

I keep waiting.

I had to make the change from orange to pink several months ago. The transition was really unpleasant. Eventually I adjusted, and although the side effects from the pink pills are much worse- the severe anxiety and restlessness it brought on had faded away . So, I’ve been on these pink pills for a while and now I am feeling again like I did when I first started. Dry mouth, anxiety, depression. But the pills haven’t changed. Is it possible that there are variations from one batch of pills to another? Is anyone else feeling this way?

I found this extremely helpful

http://www.ahealthyme.com/DrugInfoAction.do?drugName=adderall&getpics.asp&monotype=full&caller=ahme&cpnum=869&gname=Amphetamine;*Dextroamphetamine

It’s a list with pictures of all of the different types of Adderall. It seems as though Barr makes both a generic amphetamine combo AND they NOW make “brand name” Adderall.

http://www.pharm