Guest guest Posted September 13, 2004 Report Share Posted September 13, 2004 Kimber has good advice, start at a low dose and slowly increase it. Also the doctor had my husband take a baby aspirin 30 minute before taking the Niacin. However in his case, he had to stop the Niacin as he was having BIG time hot flashes. ( Now he is very sympathetic with me when I am hot !) Also you can not take Niacin with certain Satin drugs like Crestor etc. But the key is the aspirin and to slowly titrate your Niacin dose up, and I mean slowly like over 6 weeks. I work with a cardilogist about once a month and that is what he advises as well. Just thought that I would pop in while I had a chance. Hope all is well as can be with everyone. I am doing OK, still working fulltime and managing my SOD. Good days and bad days, but feel blessed that I can work. Miss you all, Lily RN from OHio Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 17, 2004 Report Share Posted September 17, 2004 Lily, how are you doing? As you can see from my post, I'm behind in reading and replying to the posts. I hope you are doing okay. I've been having a very bad week this week. Pain has been bad, but not quite bad enough to go to the ER, just bad enough to hurt and have to take extra pain medication. I hope the pain goes down soon or I'm going to have to ask the doctor to increase the pain medication. I hope your family is dong well too. Keep in touch. Kimber -- Kimber Vallejo, CA hominid2@... Note: All advice given is personal opinion, not equal to that of a licensed physician or health care professional. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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