[GWN7]

My Dr. perscribed Teva-betahistine 16 mg for a vertigo attack I had end of December. It was 1/2 tablet 3 times a day. It worked well. By the end of the week I was down to 1/2 tab twice a day and week two I was only taking 1/2 tablet once a day. Dr. had said it should get better in 3 weeks. This left me with left over pills. I had another attack last week and started to take my left over pills which helped alot. My regular Dr. is away on holidays so to get a perscription I went to a walkin clinic and the Dr. there perscribed the same med as I was taking. The walkin clinic has a pharmacy next door so I took the script there to be filled. They gave me Novo-betahistine 16 mg. I didn't notice this till I figured out the pills weren't doing what I expected.

They don't work as well as the Teva. I had to take the Nova 1/2 tablet 4X a day for the last three days to be "normal".

Can the same meds from different manufactures be different strenghts even if they are supposed to be the same (16 mg) ?

For those of you who don't know what a vertigo attack is, I can best describe it as you know what it's like to drink far too much? That second just before you throw up? When the room spins around and you have to hold your arms out or else you will fall down? Well that's what it's like when you wake up and you feel like your spinning around for the rest of the day. Not nice.