Guest guest Posted June 1, 2001 Report Share Posted June 1, 2001 Judy, I'm so glad to hear that you are finally feeling a little better while on the metho. It sounds like the dosing changes are helping. Now if we could just get you so that you didn't have to 'lose' ANY days to side effects, that would be great!! By the way, has your rheumy ever considered dividing your dosage even further? As I recall, when I was taking metho a few years ago, my rheumy had me divide my weekly dosage in thirds and take them 12 hours apart. In other words, I was still taking the entire weekly dosage within a 24 hour period (8pm,8am,and 8pm), but it was just spread out into thirds. And I seemed to tolerate it quite well. Just thought I'd mention it!! It might be worth discussing it with your rheumy to see what he thinks. (According to the PDR, this is one of the dosing options that can be used. But in your particular case, it may or may not be right for you.) Take care, Connie R --- JOstry93@... wrote: > So definite improvement, now only writing > off one day a week > (Wednesday) and that beats the heck out of three! > So definitely better. __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 9, 2001 Report Share Posted June 9, 2001 In a message dated 06/01/2001 9:45:13 PM Central Daylight Time, richac4@... writes: << I was still taking the entire weekly dosage within a 24 hour period (8pm,8am,and 8pm), but it was just spread out into thirds. And I seemed to tolerate it quite well. Just thought I'd mention it!! >> \Connie, I will ask him! Last week was really bad because I already was hurting from my graceful dive in church, so I really couldn't tell if this Weds was any better than the last one. We'll see this week. I do take my pills in two groups, 3 or 4 in the morning and the balance of either 3 or 4 at night. He lowered the dose from 20 mn to 17.5 so it's 7 pills instead of 8. I'm sure hoping! I can tolerate the 4 with no problems at all, I think it's the cumulative dose that's bothering me. Hope this works, if not, I'll ask about doing it over a 24 hour period. Thanks for the idea! Love, Judy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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