So I've been on Metformin 750 mg er manufactured by Teva Pharmaceuticals. It's reddish mottled appearance. It's $15 copay at Target. My employer decided to go cheap and switched to some health savings accounts with a huge deductible so now all my prescriptions are out of pocket.
To save costs, I ordered Metformin 750mg ER on healthwarehouse and they are white pills manufactured by Amneal.
Does anyone take the ones manufactured by Amneal and are they legit as opposed to Teva? I just trust Teva more because I've been on the pink mottled pills for over a year and have gotten used to them. Cost-wise the Amneal ones are much cheaper ($24-ish for 90 pills).
A good resource for understanding the source of your medication and protecting yourself against counterfeit med is http://www.drugs.com/pill_identification.html. Look up your medication and make sure that the number codes and visible appearance match.
I get my metformin from my local pharmacy because they offer metformin and glipizide for free. They often switch manufactuers. I recently refilled a 2 month prescription and I noticed pills looked different, a little bigger and white and no fish odors like the other ones. They also seem to work a lot better. I take 3 x 850 a day. I googled the number on the pill and found out they were made by Amneal. They have an IP 176 printed on them. I specifically asked for that brand now if they have it. My bgs had never gone below 100 and now they are routinely there. Check out your local pharmacies, many have $4 metformin per month or free like Giant. We have a HSA too with a $6000 deductible. Our expensive meds we now buy from a Canadian pharmacy www.northwestpharmacy.com
