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leg pains
My mother had been taking oxprenolol for a long time and was switched to valsartan 2-3 weeks ago. After aboout 10 days she suddenly got very severe pain in one leg, particularly the knee and ankle. After a few nights without sleep, she contacted her doctor who has now switched her to felodipine. Four days later, the leg pain is not decreasing.

I have 2 questions:

How long can the leg pains continue now she has stopped taking valsartan? We assumed the pain would start decreasing as soon as she stopped, but there is no improvement yet. The prescribed painkillers (oral and Ibuleve cream) are not helping, so she has had almost no sleep for over a week and is not coping well.

Joint pains are listed as a side effect of the felodipine. We know that it is in a different category of drug to valsartan (it is a calcium channel blocker), but is it likely to cause the same type of pain (sudden onset knee/ankle pain)? If so, it is going to be difficult to know whether any continuing leg pain is still the effect of the valsartan or due to the felodipine.
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cardizem CD and fluid retention
My father has recently started taking Felodipine and has extreme swelling in both legs, ankles and feet. I just found out that this is a side affect of takig this drug and plan on talking to the doctor about it soon.
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levofloxacin in typhoid fever
You may try some links to information (look at google)
http://www.emedicine.com/MED/topic2331.htm
http://medind.nic.in/imvw/imvw396.html
http://www.travmed.com/features/keystone_levofloxacin.htm
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Production of Trazadone
See answer above. That is how I arrived at this board. But I don't get it. This might not be the manufacturer? Perhaps we need to research Pharmaceutical World or trazodone + .com.
Trazodone is the generic name for desyrel.
I think the drug is so old that whoever manufactured desyrel doesn't anymore as I did enter desyrel + .com and came up with nothing using MSN search. Hmm......

But do check out this cool link which I found here (!) too regarding all generic drugs:
http://www.pharmaceuticalworld.com/generics_links.htm

[ May 21, 2005, 07:00 PM: Message edited by: maryc64 ]
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Sulfamethoxazole - unexpected benefits?
I don't want to worry you but have a look at http://briandeer.com/bactrim-septra.htm
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