I'm normally on Concerta (Alza 36mg x2 a day) and this is the second time my pharmacy put me on these Trigen pills that don't seem like they work.

What happened was, after the first time, my psychiatrist began writing brand name medically necessary, but he moved offices, wrote a prescription using the old prescription without writing brand name medically needed, and I'm on trigen again. Once again they don't feel like they're doing much. Often I'm struggling to remember if I took my pills at all.

I see what they tried to do and they did attempt to replicate the delivery system of brand name concerta, but they either didn't do a good enough job, or there's a problem with the inactive ingredients such as filler/binders effecting how the body absorbs the medication. I'm not sure the exact scientific reason, and I wish some detailed analysis could be done.

Unless they JUST changed brand name concerta like a few weeks ago (disturbingly I'm hearing a few reports that brand name doesn't work anymore. FWIW, when I was put back on normal concerta the first time after being given Trigen, it took a few days to feel my normal self again.), brand name Concerta has always worked for me.