Do you take an NSAID?

[Carolina Baptist]

Carolina Baptist and SaggyWoman, is arthritis the reason you're taking an NSAID?

Knee pain. Probably some arthritis. The VA doctor prescribed it.

 

[Marcia]

I am not trying to give this thread an unfriendly tone-- knowing that happens to too many-- but by "other things" you have tried, are these generic/store brands of ibuprofen, or do you mean other drugs like aspirin and acetamenophen? The real test of this would be to have someone else prepare your Advil and generic ibuprofen such that you don't know which you are taking and you record any results. But the big pharmaceutical companies, like Wyeth (maker of Advil) work hard to see that many or most consumers do not even give thought that "cheaper is just as good." So we have all their television ads, like someone with a 'pounding headache' takes the product and is all smiles and playing with grandchildren or something; and the colors and grahics on their cartons or bottles lead the eyes to their product instead of the 'plain' store brands. All this works to keep people brainwashed, and obviously it works well. Until you get a hold on it and do your own testing or research.

I am not that easily brainwashed.

Your continuing hammering at me makes me ask: Do you work for a generic company that is getting upset with Advil?

 

[Alcott]

I am not that easily brainwashed.
Your continuing hammering at me makes me ask: Do you work for a generic company that is getting upset with Advil?

No............

 

[Marcia]

No............

OK. I was wondering there....

 

[SaggyWoman]

Actually, Marcia, I ask people why they take name brands as opposed to generics (or name brands as opposed to store brands) because sometimes the price is more than double.

I do believe some items are of a better quality in name brands, but not usually. I know Ibuprofen works well for me, so I could not even imagine, if Advil were "better", how great it would work.

I will say that I do prefer Peter Pan to store brand (or other) peanut butter.

 

[PJ]

I'm with ya, Marcia and Saggy. We purchase some store brands and some name brands. We picked up a store brand muffin mix last week and it was yucky! Back to the name brand we go.

This happened once with one of my prescribed meds. The generic brand was cheaper but didn't deliver. Going back to the tried and trusted was a no brainer.