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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My 12 year old son is on 36mg Concerta and 1mg Intunive. He gets good grades and was doing well when the pharmacy gave him Guanfacine instead of Intunive (which they said was the same medicine, but the generic), so continued on with the Guanfacine and I began noticing his anxiety was higher than normal. (I did not think about the change from Intunive to Guanfacine, because they said they were the same). I thought his rise in anxiety was due only to starting the 6th grade, and all the different classes, new kids, hurrying from class to class, and the fact that he had two teachers who were sarcastic and intimidating and mean. And my son is sensitive as it is, like most ADHD kids. He began to hate going to school, and began having panic attacks. After doing some more research on the web site "ADDitude", I found out that many people have taken Guanfacine and then when going to a new Dr., they were given  Intunive because the Dr. Thought it worked better! I am pretty sure he is right , (in my son's case anyway). I found out that if the Dr. wants the patient to have the Intunive, they have to write that on the prescription so that the insurance company doesn't make the pharmacy give the generic instead. We did go to the school and have a parent /teacher/school counselor, meeting to let them know just what we thought of the sarcastic remarks and embarrassing and intimidating my son, (and other students too from what my son said).
Intunive works on "Emotional Sensitivity", the Guanfacine was not doing the same thing! So don't believe it if they say, they are the same thing! They are not, if they were the insurance companies would care about paying for the name brand because their wouldn't be a difference in price.....but their is! Beware!
                                               
                                                                                              Good Luck and God Bless!
                                                                                                    TakeAStand, NH[/quote]

It is only in the past few months that there has been a generic version of Intuniv.  That explains why the cost of our son's prescription just went down substantially![/quote]

PP again.  It looks like the generic form only comes in 1-2 mg dosages.  Our DS takes 3 mg.[/quote]

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