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(Message started by: clubmakerbob on Sep 17^th, 2003, 11:20am)

Title: Maxalt-MLT
Post by clubmakerbob on Sep 17^th, 2003, 11:20am

Just found out recently what these headaches I've been getting are and have been given MLT to fight them.

Just wondering if any other users found that if taken with liquid the effectivness is diminished?

Last "10" I got I chased the pill with water and found it took longer to work on the pain than normal. Could have just been a fluke but thought someone out there may be able to shed some light.

TIA for responses.

Title: Re: Maxalt-MLT
Post by Prense on Sep 17^th, 2003, 5:40pm

MLT is supposed to melt in your mouth...not a pill that needs to be chased. A rinse afterwards, I do not think, would have an effect on the med one way or the other.
It never worked for me either way though.

Title: Re: Maxalt-MLT
Post by kim on Sep 17^th, 2003, 7:38pm

I swig it down with hot coffee and plan on continuing to do so until sumpin else woiks. :)

*Note* The caffeine in the hot coffee can speed up the effect of the triptan....

Title: Re: Maxalt-MLT
Post by brewcrew on Sep 17^th, 2003, 8:03pm

Works great for me. Works faster with O2, but works either way. I think the MLT version (the melt-in-your-mouth kind) is supposed to go to work faster, but I've never found a difference between it and the pill form. For me it's 20 minutes, either form without O2, 10-15 minutes with O2. Like Prense, I seriously doubt if a H2O chaser is going to affect it one way or the other.

I will, however, have to try Kim's hot coffee chaser sometime (when it's not a 2:00 a.m. ordeal and there is a decent chance of getting a few more hours' sleep).

Bill

Title: Re: Maxalt-MLT
Post by UnsolvedEquation on Sep 18^th, 2003, 12:46am

Doesn't work at all for me. But I don't think your supposed to swallow it at all. It's supposed to be absorbed by the tongue...it'll get into your system faster via all the blood vessels in the tongue.

Title: Re: Maxalt-MLT
Post by Ueli on Sep 18^th, 2003, 8:53am

Somehow, but probably not un-welcome to the manufacturer, the notion got a foot hold that the MLT version of Maxalt works faster.

But the fact is: the MLT form was made for those people who cannot swallow a pill without some liquid to wash it down.

I have seen reports that claim the MLT is slower than the regular pill.

PFNADs
Ueli

Title: Re: Maxalt-MLT
Post by Prense on Sep 18^th, 2003, 5:43pm

That is correct...according to rxlist, MLT takes like an hour and a half to reach it's full potential vs just over an hour for the pill. Both were at 10mg.

Title: Re: Maxalt-MLT
Post by jmorgan52 on Sep 26^th, 2003, 3:59am

I agree with Ueli on this, and that's a first for me ;D

The MLT is for when you can't chase a pill down.

As for the effectiveness of them - I have tried them on 6 occasions last year, and an hour later I was still writhing in agony every time. I reckon they are useless (for me anyway) and they gave me absolutely no relief.

I was tempted by my Dr's glowing recommendation and their much lower cost than imigran inj but I wasted my bucks.

John