From:
sukiec@optonline.net
Date: 2005-08-25 17:17:09 UTC
Subject: RE: Generic Lupron Question
To: ferrethealth@smartgroups.com
Message-ID: <7344061.1124990229552.JavaMail.root@thallium.smartgroups.com>
Is there even a generic for Lupron Depot yet? I didn't think it was an old enough med to have a generic. (BTW, you can find info in the archives on the time release aspects of depot medications.)
Here is the Web MD write up on Lupron, which does not mention a generic.
http://www.rxlist.com/cgi/generic/leuprolide.htm
Nor do I see any generic mentioned in Healthsquare
http://www.healthsquare.com/newrx/lup1243.htm
In
http://forums.obgyn.net/endo/ENDO.0409/0877.html
it includes
>It's weird.. under the "generic medication list" under self injected, it has "leuprolide >(non-depot). I wonder what that means??? If you get the self injected version, does >it come in generic?
but that would NOT help you because your ferret needs the depot version.
See: Shoot! I can't find the excellent pharmacist's write-up that Mike Janke once put on the FHL explaining the differences in actions between depot and non-depot. It looks like it may be one of the posts which got damaged in a computer crash. Mike, do you still have that letter handy to share? I sure hope so. If memory serves, it told the mechanism by which using a non-depot version of Lupron might over time be counter-productive.
Author wrote:
> What is anyone's experience with generic lupron vs non-generic Lupron? Has there been cases where the generic lupron was inferior to Lupron (non-generic). Need this info for my Adrenal Boy.
> Thanks in advance for any replies.
> Debra