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Back in 2012 I went on generic Lexapro, or escitalopram. Low dose, 10mg. tapered off in 2014. CVS charged about $20 to fill 30 at that time.
Recently and reluctantly, went back on escitalopram, same low dose 10mg. Gave me constant headache, the background type that isn't severe it just is there and lingers all the time, a discomfort type not a resounding raging type. I had to taper off. Headaches went away.
This time around CVS was charging only $7 to fill 30. I did some open source research and found lots of complaints about headaches and escitalopram made in either China or India and that CVS and Walgreen's had both begun selling from those sources. Apparently the headache side effect is something related to purity of the fillers/buffers that the escitalopram is blended with. I also noticed that the tablets several yrs ago were smaller, about half the size as the ones CVS was dispensing this time around but both the same mg. That would seem to fit with the info about use of fillers or buffers since the same 10mg is now being dispensed in a tablet about twice the physical size.
I'm wondering if there is a way to ensure you get a med made in North America... US, Canada, or Mexico?
Recently and reluctantly, went back on escitalopram, same low dose 10mg. Gave me constant headache, the background type that isn't severe it just is there and lingers all the time, a discomfort type not a resounding raging type. I had to taper off. Headaches went away.
This time around CVS was charging only $7 to fill 30. I did some open source research and found lots of complaints about headaches and escitalopram made in either China or India and that CVS and Walgreen's had both begun selling from those sources. Apparently the headache side effect is something related to purity of the fillers/buffers that the escitalopram is blended with. I also noticed that the tablets several yrs ago were smaller, about half the size as the ones CVS was dispensing this time around but both the same mg. That would seem to fit with the info about use of fillers or buffers since the same 10mg is now being dispensed in a tablet about twice the physical size.
I'm wondering if there is a way to ensure you get a med made in North America... US, Canada, or Mexico?