25 January 2020 - A woman with bipolar disorder says she was "crying everyday" and having thoughts of suicide after a medication switch.

Sarah Patel, is one of about 11,000 people with mental health conditions or epilepsy who were switched to the generic drug brand Logem in 2019.

​PHARMAC instigated the brand switch, which will save it $30 million over five years, by pulling funding for the two main brands, Lamictal and Arrow.

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