You can find out what people have commented about huperzine in previous posts on this forum by doing a google site search

If you type this line into a google search box:
(dailystrength messes this up and tries to make it a link, but gets only part of it, so you can't just click on the link shown)
type in huperzine myasthenia site: (here you put in the base daily strength link). There are 43 comments as far back as 2010.

huperzine myasthenia site:www.dailystrength.org/

This is a topic that I know little about having said that my curiosity will have me researching this and reading what others have to say.

Knowledge is power.

If mestinon is working for you, I see no reason to even be trying Hup - A other than to experiment. Not much result listed around for MG. People do try to go as natural as possible, but sometimes nature can hurt! Give it a try for a day if you are stable and IF you want to. Let us know. Here is a link to one discussion here:

http://www.dailystrength.org/c/Myasthenia_Gravis/forum/12266562-huperzine

Good luck!

hey my friend unfortunately I too have no knowledge about this topic but when you find out about let us know...I like CJ will research myself and read what others have to say...Good luck and hope you are doing ok..Im on way to my neuro this am as Im still not feeling well so we shall see....keep us posted on what you find out about hyperzine..Hugs

It seems the advantage and disadvantage this drug has over Mestinon is that it more easily crosses the blood/brain barrier. It is also sold as an unregulated supplement. So far as I know it does not help with immunosuppression or correct the unknown trigger that sets off the antibody production against self.

I always prefer the safest, most specific drug, with the longest track record if I absolutely have to take one. For our purposes (for a anticholinesterase) this would appear to be Mestinon. When it comes to experimenting with drugs, I am an old stick in the mud and usually chose to get my excitement elsewhere. :-). b.

Bweeds, I love your comment about finding your excitement elsewhere. So, my research has concluded, and my scientific (NOT!) hypothesis is that, yes, big waste of time for me at this juncture. I have too many other issues to deal with at the current time to be messing around and trying to go all " holistic" in an environment where the huperzine isnt regulated at all and who knows what the end result could be, the online research was not as promising as I had hoped and mestonin, for the most part, works for me. It does NOT take the disease symptoms away entirely and I would like a day, time, moment for the old me to resurface, but perhaps that is just not in the cards today... we will try again another day...

M

I've been taking huperzine for the last few years and it's been great. it works the same was as mestinon as an acetylcholinesterase inhibitor. the effects last much longer than mestinon and I don't get diarrhea. I usually take 100-200 mcg just once daily and they last all day so I don't get the fluctuating weakness that I get with mestinon. I order mine from amazon.com, no prescription needed. huperzine was my only option for a long time when my neuros insisted that my MG was really just my inability to deal with stress. now I have a choice between huperzine and mestinon and my preference is huperzine.

Sally MSN,

Do you take it along with mestonin or "instead" of mestonin?

According to Sally's bio here, she takes Huperzine because she cannot get a Rx for mestinon.

I provided the link from a previous discussion here. I tried to replace mestinon with Hup A before and what a relief it was going back to mestinon. Also, we don't need a drug to cross the blood-brain barrier because MG is in the peripheral, not central nervous system.

CGreens,

Just curious, when you tried Huperzine , what was the "relief" going back to Mestinon ?

Also for everyone, because Huperzine apparently crosses the blood-brain barrier, is that necessarily a bad thing? I never had brainfog pre-MG, so something is going on up in my melon, not just in my peripheral nervous system.

Thanks!!!!! :)