There seems to be a lotof buzz about this one particular drug having a crappy generic. One of the reasons (so says my pharmacist when I threw a fit one day...er....I just admitted I threw a fit at the pharmacy...oh well...whatever) is that various manufacturers make the generic and the formula for all of them varies a LOT. This includes the amount of the active ingredient (which here in the U.S. can be with a certain range of the brand name but doesn't have to be exact; the difference can be pretty significant) and the inactive ingredients like fillers etc. Some months the generic works fine and some months I know I got a dud batch. I have not heard of this with any other meds at all, but this is even getting noticed by medical professionals now. But this may be a U.S. thing....maybe your laws and whatnot pertaining to generic versus brand are better. Don't worry about it. Just see how it goes. Plenty of people have no problem with the generic....and my body truly does act strangely with chemicals, so I'm very sensitive to it, I think.

I'm sure it will be fine! When I first went on Lamictal I was on the generic and it saved my freaking life. I went back and looked at the bottles after noticing changes between the brand name and generic this year, and the first few months I was on it it was the same manufacturer, so who knows...