RLS: more on Slow Release meds

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Just add this to the last email regarding slow release medications. My

sister also wrote, in a subsequent email:

" They had tried me on a slow release high blood pressure med at one time

and that didn't work either!!! Just thought it was the med -- never thought

about the stomach not being able to release it because it was slow release!!!

When I used to get a lot of colds, I tried '12 hr Contact' and it would

work for about 4 hours and then I'd be miserable for the rest of the day --

but I

was afraid to take anything else with it because it was a 12 hour capsule.

Now, I realize that the first 4 hrs must have released, but my system

couldn't release the last 8 hrs of medication. Glad I know the reason why

SR's don't work for me -- now I'll stay away from them!!! "

I'd say it might be important to check your medications and if you have

some that aren't working and they are slow release, you might ask about

changing to a different type of that medication.

Imagine all this meds advice from me, of all people.

Jill, 46

Payson, AZ

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