the time is 4am i sleepily lean over and grab the new container of medicine. ' just to day i have been to the new pharmacy to get my prescription filled. actually not a new pharmacy - just a new branch of the old one. bother, i grumble to myslef as i try to open the bottle. i forgot to remind them not to put on a safety cap. i finally extract a pill something i wrong - i put on. my glasses and try and focus. no i'm not crazy, this pill is grey! not pink! i have to take off my glasses again to focus on the print on the label - this is not sinemet cr - this is carb/levodop er 25/100 - mylan then at the bottom of the label in very tiny letters, it says - generic for sinemet cr question 1 'is the pharmacist allowed to substitute a generic without telling you ? question 2 is the generic exactly the same? will it be absorbed by my body at the same rate and in the same way? hilary blue