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Mestinon Top Concerns
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...had high blood pressure for many ...MG last year. I am on mestinon and 3 meds for high blood pressure. Since I've been taking mestinon, my pressures have b...
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...that a very lose of Propranolol (20 mg) helps calm my POTS related tachycardia. I was also on MESTINON and it landed me in hospital: the hospital internist...
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...I don't know if the numbness is weakness. I have ...it since I dropped my mestinon dose.
I do feel much ...on how to finesse my mestinon.
I leave for Italy on...
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I'm only on Mestinon for the MG, but I take Humira for my Crohn's which is why I have to be careful with steroids and any other immunosuppressants.
I handled the treatment well, other...
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...in 2004. I have probably had undiagnosed myasthenia gravis for 5 years. It's slowly improving after starting Mestinon. I take 60 mg every ...tab at night. I'm also on provigil for fatigue. I am...
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...mestinon for my ocular MG. At first I had double vision for months. I started the mestinon and only one...
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...lost some weight since I have been on mestinon. I am glad, and I ...are contracting better now that I am on the mestinon. The muscle contractions use up energy. It it like exercise in...
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...for 4 YEARS I am on prednisone 20 every other day and mestinon 540 mg daily between ...sense and they mentioned mestinon may cause that. I used to be on higher dose of mestinon but I reduced i...
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The only med's I'm on is Mestinon, and they have given me Radioactive Iodine for my Graves Disease, but I just took that on Jan 26, ...depo provera, which makes me not get my period at all!!!!...
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