generic Adderall made me sick? | ADHD Information

Go on straight up Adderall XR. Generics are filled with, well, fillers and those are what make you feel like crud. There is no generic for XR and the extra price is well worth it.

Generics are not all the same.  Unless your dr oks it, never take a generic substitution.  This is especially important with drugs that can effect your haert or blood pressure. 

 

Why don't they have the real thing?  Not sure.  But make the drive if you need to.

Hi everybody! This is my first post here, I found this place when I was searching for adderall-related message boards and websites.  I'm 28 years old, been taking Adderall 20 MG twice a day for about 6 years now, with drug holidays just about every weekend.
The last 6 months or so, when I get my prescription filled, I ask for the brand name and the pharmacist ALWAYS comes back and tells me they don't have it, but they DO have the generic.  This happens at most of the pharmacies in town here, and not until I got the real Adderall at a "nice" pharmacy in an upscale part of town did I notice just how bad the generics were making me feel!  At first I thought it was just because I'd been taking this for so many years, it was just my body's way of telling me it's time to find another treatment option.  I mean the last few months were horrible, I would feel like throwing up, have cold chills, night sweats, feel tired ALL day long, couldn't talk to anybody, etc.  This all cleared up the very first day I switched to the brand name.
So my question is, are the generics either: a) inherently bad, b) old, c) different drug alltogether??  And also, why would it be so difficult to get brand-name drugs?  I mean, I had to drive 45 minutes to find a pharmacy that had it.  And this is a decent-size city (knoxville, TN) I was thinking maybe they had a deal with the manufacturer of the generics (Barr is what it always said on the bottle). But that doesn't really make sense to me...How is it legal to sell "bad quality" drugs? Especially with all the recent talk of how generics are supposed to be the exact same active ingredient, and it makes more sense to buy them? 
Sorry for writing a novel here, anybody have any thoughts on this?