colazal

Does anyone have any new information about colazal being produced again? I have a 9yr. old that was diag. at 4 and it is the only thing that has helped her so far. She had been taking it the past four years and within 2 days of running out she started cramping and bleeding. We have tried her on both generic brands but had no luck with either. She just started lialda five days ago and has had minor improvement.



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Are you really sure its discontinued? I know there is a thread about it, that I quickly went through. One of the poster said that the link on Salix website is dead but I can see it now.

http://www.salix.com/products/colazal.aspx

You can order it from their wholesalers http://www.salix.com/products/product-ordering.aspx#colazal

You need to investigate further of course.

The brandname is going to be available again this spring. If one of the generics you tried was Watson, then you have used the brandname once again. It is a approved generic and nothing but the same pill in a different bottle.

If your daughter used the other two generics and they simply didn't work, I would say that the brandname isn't going to work any better. The issues with the generics is additives, dies etc not in the brandname that cause adverse reactions. I have used both generics and am on Mylan now. Work fine.

I would stick with lialda if you have seen some benefit in 5 days. All the 5asas do is reduce frequency and possibly severity of flares. Half UC suffers flare yearly on medication. Half go longer. Half don't go that long. It makes it a very aggravating disease to deal with because you really never know if pills work or if changing meds help.

Sorry I meant to say authorized generic. They are 100% identical and nothing but the brandname repackaged. The watson pills even have the same code on the capsule. The others are approved generics

The watson is identical to the brandname because is manufactured by the same plant on the same line. I am sorry old hat but you have been scaring people away from the generics and you actually have never taken one. It is completely against the law to sell a drug with the same coding on the pill that is not 100% identical.

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An authorized generic (AG) is a drug that is sold by the brand manufacturer, or innovator company, with both brand-name and generic labels.

Authorized generics differ from regular generics in that they are identical to the brand or legacy product in both active and inactive ingredients. Generic drugs need have only the identical active ingredients as the branded drug. Innovator companies do not have to re-apply for U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval of an authorized generic.

Authorized generics are designed to compete with generic competitors to the brand drug on price, quality and availability once the brand drug patent expires.

Thanks, BabeintheWoods. RE generics: the New York Times even reported on problems with generics that were backed up by research studies done on patients with cardiac disorders, epilepsy, & clinical depression. So AZYooper, I wish you would let us have our exchanges on our personal experiences with generics, and if these annoy you, then just don't bother to read them. I have been fighting off UC for over 30 yrs, and brandname Colazal has been the only 5-ASA that enabled me to achieve a remission longer than a few months. My gastroenterologist, who has long experience subspecializing in IBD treatment, agrees that brandname Colazal works better for some UCers than other 5-ASAs, including generics. Furthermore, the fact that the Watson generic Colazal capsule LOOKED the same as the brandname does not prove that the capsule contents were the same. As BabeintheWoods points out, FDA standards are jargon, not purity. / Old Hat (31 yrs with left-sided UC; presently in remission taking brandname Colazal)

What makes you think, AZ, that I'm "out to scare people away from generics"? Maybe you are scared because you can't wait to insult me! Anyone reading and/or posting here is totally free to take whatever meds their MD Rxes. I don't come here to influence anybody's choice of meds, supplements, or whatever, but to share experiences and info. It seems that you are out to pick a fight because you want everybody to take generics-- since that's what you take. UCers need to take the med that works for their particular case. If you read through threads here, you will see that I am not the only person with UC who needs brandname Colazal. It seems that your hostility is misdirected. / Old Hat (31 yrs with left-sided UC; presently in remission taking brandname Colazal)

See the thread "Colazal continued" for latest product availability. / Old Hat (31 yrs with left-sided UC; presently in remission taking brandname Colazal)