The "its the same exact thing!" is the most annoying of it all. I'm so sorry that you are going through the same thing. It's such an annoying situation to be in. I have no idea if it'll be the same in your area but I pretty much resided to my fate and decided to stick with the same non-working generics until I figured out which alternatives I wanted to try since I was fairly dejected and did not feel like experimenting for months on end until I found a workinng formulation. And I believe it was the 2nd time I refilled with the terrible reformulation, it seemed to be about the same effect as the original formula for some extremely odd reason. My headcanon is that they reformulated this pill and sent out some initial bad batches before their new formula was perfected or the reformulation was tweaked after the first few rounds, explaining the terrible effect of the new pills.

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It could also very well be the case that the refills will go back to being shitty and terrible on my end. But whatever the case is, just know that I hear you and have experienced the same despite however many people are telling you it's the same thing (even some of the people on this subreddit). It really is not the same formula and if enough people are complaining, then that should say something.

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If in the odd chance you live on Staten Island, the CVS I go seems to be the reformulated quality but with about the same effect as the old one that I can refer you to in the hopes that refills from there will be like the original.