cholinergic crisis is an over-stimulation at a neuromuscular junction due to an excess of acetylcholine (ACh), as of a result of the inactivity (perhaps even enzyme inhibition) of the AChE enzyme, which normally breaks down acetylcholine. This is a consequence of some types of nerve gas, (e.g...
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Quote: Yes, I had the cholinergic crisis due to the doctor increasing my dosage too soon, ...sent me to the ER. That gave me the muscle paralysis.
I did tell my doctor -- on few...
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...that people can overdose on mestinon. He said that he's reviewed all the cases of 'cholinergic crisis' and he believes that under-medicating precipitated the crisis, and the crisis was actually...
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...my neurologist about the risk of cholinergic crisis (and I don't know ...It's strange, because I feel like the Mestinon affects different parts ...out what's causing the dysautonomia, and it ...
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...of bowels, and vomiting, I think about Mestinon overdose. I've read that a cholinergic crisis can be hard to distinguish from a myasthenic crisis.
I'm sorry you've been...
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...convulsions via entering the CNS as a tertiaryamine
By the way edrophonium would help myasthenia but worsen cholinergic crisis and pyridostigmine is the long acting agent for...
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...it's more rare or more commonly missed.
Here's a few that come to mind:
Myasthenic crisis vs cholinergic crisis
Guillain Barre
Serotonin syndrome
Anticholinergic syndrome...
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...thought, what if i dont have mg?
So, I started 10 mg.
A cholinergic crisis is scary, but I dont think you can get it from only 30 ...on 6 x 90 mg now, and still no cholinergic crisis.
Good...
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...such use, by masking signs of overdosage, can lead to inadvertent induction of cholinergic crisis.'
There is a lot of returns on the above search...I guess everyone has...
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...If you have enough acetylcholine getting to your muscles and don't have MG, it can cause a Cholinergic Crisis, where you get so weak that you need Atropine or a similar drug to make you better....
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