The Prenatals?

So, after feeling so bad for so long I started to wonder if it was my prenatals rather than just pregnancy symptoms. I was given the generic form of the prenatals I took for the last 3 years a few months before conceiving. They were way cheaper and they were supposedly the exact same thing as the non-generic so I gladly agreed. Then for months I got very sick. It was unreal. I never get that sick that often. But once I conceived, I felt like I never felt before. So horrible, as you may have read in previous posts. The symptoms were many and annoying. So, one day I had had enough and decided to go on the internet and look up the generics and the name brand I was formerly on and see what the difference was. Can you believe that all the "pregnancy symptoms" I was having were listed as side effects of the generic prenatal I was on??? Then I checked the side effects of the name brand prenatal and there were a few small mild ones. I decided to skip my vitamins for one day and see how I felt. I felt GREAT! When I called the pharmacist he told me something that made me wonder. He said that by law the generic form of any drug has to be exactly the same, at least the active ingredients. Hmmm, could that make that big of a difference? ORRRRR, is it that the generics use the same ingredients just a lower quality of them? Then I asked him if I could please get my prescription in name brand form again. He said sure and that it would be good to try it out seeing that I had no trouble taking the name brand for all that time and with my last pregnancy. So I went and traded in my nearly full box of generics that I had just picked up a couple days before for the name brand version.

I began taking the name brands the next day. I did not feel an instant change but a few days later I felt like somebody flipped a switch in me. I had spent the last three months feeling like I had chills, suddenly I was a roasty, toasty sweaty pregnant woman again like last time. Then I felt alot of the nausea leave me. I don't feel like I want specific things to eat all the time like last time (yet, anyways), my appetite is lacking but I do NOT feel like tossing my cookies all day long. My headaches have lessened and are almost gone. It feels like every day that the generics are leaving my system, I feel better? The tinnitus has stopped almost entirely and my energy level has improved dramatically.

I have no idea if anyone out there has ever had a situation like this before with generics verses name brand meds? I have always asked for generics when I go to the pharmacy over the years to save money and because I felt that they were just as effective as the name brands. I'll never do that again with my prenatals for sure.

Feeling much better now. Returning to myself, slowly but surely. Amen! Ooh, think my face is clearing up too? Yeah!