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Pyridostigmine is used to treat muscle weakness in people with myasthenia gravis and to combat the effects of curariform drug toxicity. It also has a military use as a nerve gas antidote (it has been used in particular during the first Gulf War). more at Wikipedia
Treatment Success Rate
| Top 5 Communities | ||
| Condition | Members | Success |
| Myasthenia Gravis | 266 |
88% |
| Depression - Teen | 1 |
100% |
Overall, 88% (267
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Mestinon Reviews
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Some days I take 1 sometimes 5 it all depends
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Does help but had Tummy Troubles like many others so i had to cut back on it.
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not enough, but helps with mucus
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back and forth
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This has worked for me, but I now take 4 180mg time span & between 6 & 9 60 mg regular throughout the day. It's a lot of pills to take. Not to bad with the side effects, for me at least.
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sorta
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it works for a while then stops. upset stomach for side effects
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When I was first diagnosed, it was the only medication I was prescribed and it worked pretty good but as time went by I had to increase the doses until it no longer made a difference if I took it or no
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This definitely works in the short term, but anything after 8 hours and the symptoms come on hard.
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Been on this for ...25 years...still works; some days good some days not.
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mestinon works but sometimes needs a litle help, like prednisone. one can overdose on mestinon which is called a crisis. This is when breathing is a... [More] -
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Where are you located, Tesb? In my country, Mestinon is known as Gravitor and comes as a 60 mg pill. Easy to break. What does one mean by timespan??? [More] -
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Just FYI, both the specialists my daughter has seen at UCDavis and at Stanford say they won't use timespan Mestinon because of the inconsistency of th... [More] -
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i take mestinon and mine is mfg...by Global...i just looked on my pill bottle...If u have a walgreens then u can ask n the pharmecy department... [More] -
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The MG Association here in Kansas sent an alert to all of us about a brand called Glbal. I was getting this brand and found my pills were crumbling al... [More]
