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Greg_A
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I'm currently taking 720mg of verapamil and 450mg of lithium and its not working.
I'm going back to the VA doc next week and i plan on asking him to up both of them to see if i get any results. If not i want to stop taking them.
What kind of doses is everyone else taking and does it work? I just want to get an idea.
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Bob P
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Re: Verap and Lithium Doses?
« Reply #1 on: Apr 2nd, 2002, 8:45pm » |
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Can't tell ya what dose will work for you but I do want to encourage you, and everyone else, to visit the OUCH site, click on "Surveys" in the nav bar and complete the verapamil surveys.
We're working on a number of surveys to get good info on these types of questions.
The O2 survey will probably be up this week.
If you have other subjects on which a detailed survey would help give us some good statistics be sure to let me know.
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Re: Verap and Lithium Doses?
« Reply #2 on: Apr 2nd, 2002, 11:23pm » |
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Here is my routine, works for me 85% of the time.
Lithobid sr (not regular lithium) 300 mg x 2
Verapamil er (generic) 240 mg x 2
Note: I have been informed that plain (not er) verapamil is more effective, however it didn't work for me.
Keep O2 and Imitrex injections around for breakthroughs.
Just my life experience, I still get clusters all the time but not nearly as bad as before. During really bad spells I bump the lithobid up to 300mg x 3.
Hope the V.A. will work with you on all of this, lots of dollars.
Lee
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Re: Verap and Lithium Doses?
« Reply #3 on: Apr 3rd, 2002, 1:30am » |
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I took 900mg of lithium and got 90% relief.
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