Eliquis is available around the world in both its brand name, Eliquis, and it’s generic name or active ingredient name, apixaban. The brand named Eliquis is available in countries like the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Turkey, and the United Kingdom, just to name a few.
Generic Eliquis, or apixaban, would be required to have the same ingredient as the interchangeable brand name. Generic medicines in the USA are required to have the same dose, safety, efficacy, strength, stability, and quality. The medicine is required to be taken by the same route such as by mouth for tablets or ophthalmic solution for eye drops. Generic medications will have the same risk profile as their brand-name counterparts.
However, generic pharmaceuticals often contain different excipients. Excipients are the ingredients in a medication that serve various purposes such as assisting with stabilization of the medicinal ingredient, adding bulk or helping bind solid formulations such as a tablet, or change the viscosity or “thickness” of a solution such as an eye drop or oral liquid. Excipients have many purposes in addition to those mentioned above.
The information provided in this article will serve as a comparison between the Canadian and Turkish brand name options of Eliquis as well as the new Canadian generic option.
Canadian Brand Name Eliquis 5mg:
Eliquis 5mg (apixaban) from our Canadian online pharmacy partner are film-coated tablets available in blister packaged form in a small cardboard box. The box has “Eliquis® apixaban film-coated tablets 5mg” written on one side and the same information in French language on the other side. Bristol-Myers Squibb and Pfizer are both listed on the packaging with addresses in Canada. Package size is 3 x 20 tablets or 60 total tablets of Eliquis. Canadian brand name Eliquis is also available in bottles of 180 tablets.
Canadian Eliquis (apixaban) 5mg Tablet Description:
Pink, oval tablets debossed with 894 on one side and 5 on the other side.
Canadian Eliquis (apixaban) 5mg Pictures:
Canadian Brand Name Eliquis 2.5mg:
Eliquis 2.5mg (apixaban) film-coated tablets are available in blister packaged form in a small cardboard box. The box has “Eliquis® apixaban film-coated tablets 2.5mg” written on one side and the same information in French language on the other side. Bristol-Myers Squibb and Pfizer are both listed on the packaging with addresses in Canada. Package size is 3 x 20 tablets or 60 total tablets of Eliquis. Canadian brand name Eliquis is also available in bottles of 180 tablets.
Canadian Eliquis (apixaban) 2.5mg Tablet description:
Yellow, round tablets debossed with 893 on one side and 2 1⁄2 on the other side.
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Turkish Brand Name Eliquis 5mg:
Eliquis 5mg (apixaban) tablets from Turkey have Turkish language on the box and blisters. “Eliquis® 5mg Film Kapli Tablet apiksaban” translated to English is “Eliquis® 5mg film-coated tablets apixaban”. Turkish Eliquis is available in blister packaged form in a small cardboard box. The Pfizer logo is printed on the box and the blister packaging. Package size is 4 x 14 tablets or 56 total tablets of Eliquis.
Turkish Eliquis (apixaban) 5mg Tablet Description:
As you can see in the pictures, Turkish Eliquis appears to be the same as Eliquis from other countries. They appear as pink, oval tablets debossed with 894 on one side and 5 on the other side.
Turkish Eliquis (apixaban) 5mg Pictures:
Turkish Brand Name Eliquis 2.5mg:
Eliquis 2.5mg (apixaban) tablets from Turkey also have Turkish language on the box and blisters. “Eliquis® 2.5mg Film Kapli Tablet apiksaban” translated to English is “Eliquis® 2.5mg film-coated tablets apixaban”. Turkish Eliquis is available in blister packaged form in a small cardboard box. The Pfizer logo is printed on the box and the blister packaging. Package size is 4 x 14 tablets or 56 total tablets of Eliquis.
Turkish Eliquis (apixaban) 2.5mg Tablet Description:
Yellow, round tablets debossed with 893 on one side and 2 1⁄2 on the other side.
Turkish Eliquis (apixaban) 2.5mg Pictures:
Generic Eliquis is Apixaban:
As mentioned previously, the generic versions of the respective branded medications are designed to be interchangeable and provide the same effect. One difference between generic and brand name manufactured medications is that generics often contain different excipients. On very rare occasions, this difference seems to affect people if, for example, they are allergic to one of the excipients in the generic medication that was not found in the brand name medication. For most people, taking the generic works seamlessly compared to the branded product.
Canadian Generic Apixaban:
Generic apixaban in both 2.5mg and 5mg tablets from our Canadian online pharmacy partner currently come in bottles of 60. Packaging includes both English and French language as Canada is bilingual.
Canadian Generic Apixaban Tablet Description:
One of the various generic manufacturers in Canada is a company called Marcan. Marcan describes apixaban tablets as follows in their product monograph:
2.5 mg tablet: Yellow, round, biconvex, film coated tablet, debossed with ‘HP’ on one side and ‘557’on other side.
5 mg tablet: Pink, oval, biconvex film coated tablets, debossed with ‘HP’ on one side and ‘558’ on other side.
Canadian Generic Apixaban 5mg Pictures:
Conclusion:
Canadian Eliquis brand name products are marketed by BMS. Both Turkish and Canadian products have the Pfizer logo on the box. Eliquis tablets from our Canadian pharmacy clearly appear to be the same in appearance as the Eliquis available from Turkey. Pharmacies in Canada pay the second highest drug prices in the world next to the United States and therefore the Eliquis from Canada costs more than the Eliquis from Turkey. When ordering medicines from our Canadian online pharmacy partner, shipping times are generally shorter compared to ordering from other countries simply due to geography. There is clearly a difference in price while the products appear to be the same.
Want to save even more money, we recommend you go for the generic version.
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