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Lovastatin
Hello, Deborah and Fran, I'm new to this forum and have been on the Mevacor for over 2 years. I like it pretty well. I seems to have no side effects. My cholestrol is in control to a degree but I know that it would drop much more if I ate better. Last year I did an experiment and for 3 months ate less carbs and exercised more and all my numbers came down quite a bit. I'm diabetic and also have high blood pressure. Everything came down but it was hard to maintain that level of discipline. My blood sugars came back up but my other numbers are somewhat stable for the time being.. My biggest problem is 'bread' - I love lots of butter on it. If I don't eat bread I also don't eat butter and the numbers come down! I don't use any margarine or other transfat or oil. I only use olive oil for cooking etc. which contains the 'good' cholestrol! I also take Diovan for blood pressure - some of the side effects of this is it's supposed to lower cholestrol as well as blood sugars.. The results should show within 3 months if your doctor wants a blood test scheduled..

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Dave

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Nitroglycerin and systoms of overdose?
Hello,
Since this is my first post,I will try to make it short.I have read the data sheet that came with this medicine and it does talk about what happens if someone overdoses.But I am assuming they are talking about an accidental overdose of ,say,3-6 pills.But what does it do to you if someone ingested 50 or more at one time.No,it is not me.Of course everyone says that when they want to know what to expect.But it just happens to be the truth this time.I am a totally disabled Vietnam vet, with no issues bad enough for me to even think of doing something that crazy.Anyway, I have a very close friend, a Vietnam vet as well,that has some serious issues with his torn up body and no legs & with just one arm.The VA psychiatrists have been working with him almost from day one.They continue to fill him with a handful of pills everyday.I mean he has to take 24 every morning,14 at dinner,and 28 every night.But recently he has just completely given up on himself and told me he plans to take the nitroglycerin in the quantity I stated,maybe more.If I tell the VA or any civilian organization,he would disappear,forever.I have not read him the part about overdose on the data paper,yet.I am trying to scare him out of it by telling him the truth that if he did this, that this medicine would do all those things,not only for a longer period of time but worse,before they let you die.
So,any info that I can use would be greatly appreciated.Oh,the last time I ask this on another forum,last week,they somehow got my home address and sent the Sheriff out to my house,and since my friend lives in 'seeing' distance of me,it spooked him off to another location about 40 miles from me.He only let me know where he was yesterday.
Thank you.
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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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Any risks for children
The pediatrician gave to my daughter 9 months old cyproheptadine 2mg/day for 6 months to increase appetite, it was extremely effective, she ate everything I gave her, before this, it was a continous fight every meal. She was sleepy during the first days but after a week of treatment she was OK. I have noticed that she changed the colour of the skin which became darker (because of the sensitivity of the drug to sun exposure- I guess). Because of that I interrupted the treatment after 6 weeks, I was afraid not to damage her liver. Maybe I was wrong, I don't know.
Coud somebody tell me for how long is it safe to give this drug to a child?

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Mara Anita

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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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