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(Message started by: BobG on Apr 2^nd, 2002, 1:26pm)

Title: question for nancyc
Post by BobG on Apr 2^nd, 2002, 1:26pm

When you saw the new neuro at the medical college did you get a chance to ask about the drug Aricept?

P.S.
much more important - WHAT ABOUT THE NEW GRANDSON?

Title: Re: question for nancyc
Post by nancyc on Apr 2^nd, 2002, 2:06pm

sure did....she is going to call the Doctor in Italy if the depakote does not work and start me on it next ...either that or Goadsby's new treatment....AND YES, MY GRANDSON IS HERE! LOL ;D

Title: Re: question for nancyc
Post by Tom on Apr 3^rd, 2002, 1:59pm

Hi Charles,

as Nancy is to busy with her grandbaby now, she asked me by e-mail to answer your question, so I'll try to do so:

Prof. Goadsby's team in London is performing a clinical trial about a possible (abortive?) treatment of CH with octreotide (Sandostatin®), an artificial analog of the human pancreatic hormone somatostatin. The latter is the antagonist of somatotropin, the "growth hormone", produced in the pituitary gland of the brain.

Years ago octreotide was synthesized as a drug for the treatment of pituitary tumors respectively their symptoms. With the time patients and doctors observed an improvement of the severe headaches patients with pituitary tumors usually have, and now somebody got the idea to apply octreotide in the treatment of CH, too.

The preliminary results of the a.m. clinical trial seem to be very promissing, so far. The CH fellows from ch.org.uk probably know more about this argument.

For more informations about octreotide look at www.rxlist.com/cgi/generic2/octreotide.htm and also into the Google.

Thomas

Title: Re: question for nancyc
Post by nancyc on Apr 3^rd, 2002, 4:16pm

Thanks Tom...i ask really because you are so much smarter than me and i knew you could explain it better to Charles..... ;D ;D ;D