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Generic for Imitrex????
« on: Oct 4th, 2006, 7:37am » |
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Is there a generic for Imitrex yet? If not has anyone heard when they will make one?
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Re: Generic for Imitrex????
« Reply #1 on: Oct 4th, 2006, 7:51am » |
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Their patent is about to expire so maybe after that there will be a generic. But right now I don't know of one.
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Re: Generic for Imitrex????
« Reply #2 on: Oct 4th, 2006, 8:51am » |
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I don't think most people here use maxalt melt, but they have a generic for that. It's still $9 a disc/tab.
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Re: Generic for Imitrex????
« Reply #3 on: Oct 4th, 2006, 4:40pm » |
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I think it's sumatriptan.
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Re: Generic for Imitrex????
« Reply #5 on: Oct 4th, 2006, 4:49pm » |
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on Oct 4th, 2006, 8:51am, Charlotte wrote:I don't think most people here use maxalt melt, but they have a generic for that. It's still $9 a disc/tab.
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I thought Imitrex was the original triptan, how did the Maxalt patent expire first?
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Re: Generic for Imitrex????
« Reply #6 on: Oct 4th, 2006, 8:42pm » |
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Okay, this gets dicey but the deal is....pharmaceutical comapnies really want to hold a patent as long as possible-let me tell ya the story about fosamax (for osteoporosis) First there was the daily dose-they made alot of money on that and low and behold just before that patent expired they found  a way to make it a weekly dose  Yippee!!extent the patent...Now they have a once a month....again..new patent. The triptans have been around along time, and every change they make- in delivery, in dose-in frequency-in melts in your mouth-gets a new patent....
My gosh, I've wasted my life as a sociologist and philosopher, I coulda been a contenda (I mean a pharmaceutical mogul). 
There are ways around the high cost....go to needymeds.com and see if ya qualify for anything. For real.
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Re: Generic for Imitrex????
« Reply #7 on: Oct 4th, 2006, 8:45pm » |
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I can see them getting a patent on a new delivery method or whatever, but doesn't the patent on the old method still expire?
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Re: Generic for Imitrex????
« Reply #8 on: Oct 4th, 2006, 9:57pm » |
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OK. The little packet says Maxalt-Mlt, rizatriptan benzoate orally disintegrating tablets 10 mg.
However, each tablet contains 14.53 mg of rizatriptan benzoate equivalent to 10 mg rizatriptan.
So it is not sumatriptan, it's rizatriptan, and the generic is rizatriptan benzoate. 14.53 mg is easier to cut into 4 pieces.
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Re: Generic for Imitrex????
« Reply #9 on: Oct 5th, 2006, 7:25am » |
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Thanks for the info, Maxalt didn't work for me, the only thing I found to work is Imitrex injections.
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Re: Generic for Imitrex????
« Reply #10 on: Oct 5th, 2006, 8:21am » |
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sandy and charlotte ... you're going to confuse someone.
Maxalt is NOT the same thing as Imitrex ... nor is it the generic form for Imitrex. Maxalt is simply another Triptan drug. There are 7 triptan drugs in all. Imitrex was the first triptan drug and the only triptan available in an injection form. BTW, Imitrex is the brand name ...sumatriptan succinate is the drug name.
There are no generic Imitrex injections yet.
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Re: Generic for Imitrex????
« Reply #11 on: Oct 11th, 2006, 8:04am » |
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they need/want to keep hold of the lisence as long as thety can to recover research and development costs
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Re: Generic for Imitrex????
« Reply #12 on: Oct 11th, 2006, 10:17am » |
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I still don't see how changing the formula gives them a new patent on the original drug.
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Re: Generic for Imitrex????
« Reply #13 on: Oct 11th, 2006, 4:34pm » |
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It allows them to extend the patent...just takes a bit of a change. anyone check out needymeds?
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Re: Generic for Imitrex????
« Reply #14 on: Oct 11th, 2006, 4:58pm » |
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I believe Cat knows when the patent is up on Imitrex.
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Re: Generic for Imitrex????
« Reply #15 on: Oct 11th, 2006, 7:36pm » |
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on Oct 11th, 2006, 4:34pm, kcopelin wrote:It allows them to extend the patent...just takes a bit of a change. anyone check out needymeds?
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I'm still not getting it. Changing the formula creates a new drug that has a new patent...why would the new patent extend to the old product?
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Re: Generic for Imitrex????
« Reply #16 on: Oct 11th, 2006, 9:57pm » |
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on Oct 11th, 2006, 8:04am, chopmyheadoff wrote:| they need/want to keep hold of the lisence as long as thety can to recover research and development costs |
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I respectfully and VEHEMENTLY disagree, Chopper. The greedy MFers have a drug that WORKS (and, in my opinion, prolongs and maintains the very condition it temporarily relieves). If GSK hasn't recouped the cost of R&D on Imitrex/Imigran many millions of times, I would be very surprised. Funny how they charge around $75/dose in First World countries and around $12/dose in Third World. Which is still way too much. Even funnier that much better relief is found on cowflop....
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Re: Generic for Imitrex????
« Reply #17 on: Oct 11th, 2006, 10:32pm » |
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Re: Generic for Imitrex????
« Reply #18 on: Oct 11th, 2006, 10:45pm » |
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Sumatriptan is imitrex. There no generic yet.
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Re: Generic for Imitrex????
« Reply #19 on: Oct 12th, 2006, 3:09am » |
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on Oct 11th, 2006, 10:45pm, chewy wrote:| Sumatriptan is imitrex. There no generic yet. |
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Re: Generic for Imitrex????
« Reply #20 on: Oct 12th, 2006, 3:37am » |
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on Oct 12th, 2006, 3:09am, Mr. Happy wrote:
Not yet Hap......, most likely there will only be generic Trex in pill form, rendering it useless for us Clusterheads.
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Re: Generic for Imitrex????
« Reply #21 on: Oct 12th, 2006, 6:02am » |
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on Oct 11th, 2006, 9:57pm, Not4Hire wrote:
I respectfully and VEHEMENTLY disagree, Chopper. The greedy MFers have a drug that WORKS (and, in my opinion, prolongs and maintains the very condition it temporarily relieves). If GSK hasn't recouped the cost of R&D on Imitrex/Imigran many millions of times, I would be very surprised. Funny how they charge around $75/dose in First World countries and around $12/dose in Third World. Which is still way too much. Even funnier that much better relief is found on cowflop....
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but imagine how much it costs to pay for all that research and to develop a new drug that is really for a tiny percentage of the population.
its not like asprin where they sell fifteen trillion a day, so i still say they have to recover the cost of what they have done.
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Re: Generic for Imitrex????
« Reply #22 on: Oct 12th, 2006, 7:34am » |
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Re: Generic for Imitrex????
« Reply #23 on: Oct 12th, 2006, 8:39am » |
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The trex patent expires in 2008-2009. After that there will be a generic.
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Re: Generic for Imitrex????
« Reply #24 on: Oct 13th, 2006, 3:22pm » |
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The drug companies like to pretend they're only charging so much to recover research and development, however, if you watch TV at all, you can see they're really trying to cover all their advertisements where they try to convince people this drug is for them and "contact your doctor to see if this drug is right for you". And of course they have to pay all the crooked lobbyists and congressman so they can stay on top of the pile. Just look at the ridiculous medicare drug bill to see where the priorities are.
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