Comments on: Generic Adderall Recall: Oversized Barr Dextroamphetamine/Amphetamine

By: cecily

cecily — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:26:37 +0000

wow…. my husband takes the 10mg generic, and has for years. but in August 09, he took his usual dose…went to mow the lawn and suffered a massive stroke! wonder if it affected the smaller doses to? he is 285 in weight and takes 3 10mg per day. it wasnt heat stroke, was islemtric (sp?)now i am wondering if this had anything to do with it.
although he took it for bi-polar, he had just graduated from school and was 3 days from starting new job. now he cant drive speak pr remeber anything he just learned in school.

By: kimberly

kimberly — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 20:15:47 +0000

I have been informed i recived more than one batch of the tainted aderall,and boy has my life been altered due to these pills ,i thought it was because i became addicted in a MAJOR way and that was the cause to all these problems,(im shure the extreme doses played a huge part too)it made me need a higher dose due to the high dose without my KNOWING!!!!also it has givenme extremeand crippling headaches(to the extremes of thinking I need to stop these at any cost(never thought aderall was the cause since i have been on them for yrs),backpain ,lower back pain,pain in my lungs,ive become what i guess we call bipolar,up then down MOODSWINGS in seconds,my body turns red and i get purple bruise like marks on my back of my arms…My eyesight is causing extreme pain and i cant handle life one molment to the next….What have these pills done to us???IM a young woman whos looks have paid for my meds not to mention my fit not to bad looking BODY,well everyone has noticed a change !!!NOW WE KNOW WHY!!!!

By: Erin O.

Erin O. — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 00:20:57 +0000

What a nightmare roller-coaster I have been on since receiving BARR generic Adderall medication! This last refill (filled 2 weeks ago) was the last time I am going to get anything from them. Their generic Adderall batches are SO inconsistent, and I never know what my reaction will be when I take their medication. The last few days I have been monitoring my blood pressure because I was feeling overly anxious after taking my dosage, and low and behold it skyrocketed after taking it. At the highest point it was 175/119!! Luckily I am prescribed a beta blocker. If I hadn’t taken that I think I might have had a heart attack or stroke! I threw out the rest and will NEVER take anything they manufacture. I am done with them!

By: Rachel

Rachel — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 09:22:02 +0000

I just found out my pills were apart of the bad batch from my pharmacist tonight at food lion’s pharmacy. I have been getting my medicine there for almost 3 months after switching from Kroger’s Pharmacy “witch also get the same barr 20 mg tablets.”It’s Scary to think I wouldnt have known if it wasnt for a tooth I had to get pulled today!! I too have been experiencing all the side effects but thought it was because I had to get back used to my medicine after returning back to it after my pregnancy with my son now 8 1/2 months old. I went back after I quit breastfeeding about 6 months ago and it got so intense that I had to increase my anxiety medication just to feel normal. As soon as I read this, I threw my bottle out and I am calling my physician tommorrow and getting my dosage in the 10mg tablets”like my pharmacist suggested”!! He let me read the recall sheet they faxed him and it was incredably scketchy! I’m a new mom and I should be overjoyed right now instead of feeling Anxious and paranoid all the time.
Barr PLEASE get it together!! People’s Lives depend on it!!

By: gayla

gayla — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 22:35:43 +0000

I just got a phone call today from my Winn-Dixie Pharmacy January 11 2010,telling me of the recall. I have been taken adderall for years now.I have been feeling so bad for the last year. This is just now being told to me. I am so very upset.

By: Zoey

Zoey — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 23:16:23 +0000

This medication caused my friend to weep considerably in a corner for hours, anytime someone tried to talk to her or made any loud noises around her she would start growling and yelling, and disturbing her caused her to go on a rampage and sometimes seriously injure another person.

By: Erin

Erin — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 04:13:41 +0000

I got the call from my pharmacy today. Funny, I got these pills on a Monday and was in the emergency room by Friday night. I was in the midst of a flee infestation and thought bugs were hopping on my skin.

I won’t go into full details, but I will tell everyone, it was by far the worst week of my life. I almost went on FMLA. I experienced a drug induced psychosis. I was having hallucinations and thought people were trying to kill me.I was kicked out of the hospital at 11pm…they knew i didn’t have a car…i was stranded…i walked the streets of Houston at midnight…got picked up by a mexican named oscar…he thought i was a hooker….i heard things…i saw scary things…the next hospital visit said i was maybe bipolar or schizophrenic. I was admitted to a psychitric unit. My mom flew in from Ohio to help me. I thought I literally was CRAZY!!!!

By: Amanda

Amanda — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 21:24:39 +0000

This is the first I have heard of this recall and I too have been a long time adderall taker. My pharmacist JUST called me and asked if I had any left from the last prescription that I had filled which was over a month ago because they needed me to bring them back so they could REPLACE them! I took my medication like I was supposed to and therefore NO I DO NOT have any to give back to be replaced. I too have been going through EVERY SINGLE symptom listed here as well This is absolutely ridiculous! They should have better control over these sorts of things!

By: Danielle

Danielle — Mon, 07 Dec 2009 00:52:46 +0000

I think that BARR generic Adderall is STRONGER than brand name adderall and other generic adderall. I have been taking this medication for the past 10 years and i became addicted to the med and it has caused serious problems in my life. I have taken the brand name adderall and the other generic that is out there (hot pink tabs) and the BARR was always 2x as strong. I urge others who may have had similiar experiences with the BARR generic to come forward and perhaps file a lawsuit against BARR. This drug has really messed up my life and Im thankful to now finally be off the drug, only after months of therapy and a lot of hard work.

By: michelle

michelle — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:43:29 +0000

Not only does Barr make bad adderall but their prozac does not work at all. I looked up their records on the FDA website and they actually failed to get approval several times and were granted some kind of exception. To my understanding, reading the files available to the public they have been unable to meet the requirements but the ok was given. I told my doctor and the pharmacies I use that I do not want BARR products. When you take a medicine that works for you, you know when it’s not doing what it’s suppose to. Shame on you BARR.