hycosamine, which the doctor and the pharmasist said was EXACTLY the same as the parent drug Levbid mad me sick as a dog and I ended up in the hospital. Generic IS NOT the same as the parent drug. This has happened to me with several other drugs too. But the HMO\'s insist the pharmacies give the generic instead of the original drug or they won\'t pay for it. I am becoming scared to death of any medication.