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Old 10-22-2013, 01:22 PM
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There was a person here who did this fairly recently. Do a search with the drug name, and his posts will come up.

I don't recall the poster ID right now. The upshot was that it didn't work for him/her, and the esophageal damage became too great and he/she discontinued with a follow up post several months after starting.

In the decade or so I've been on this board and the previous one, there have been very few who succeeded with this drug. It is very damaging to the stomach and esophagus. Doctors don't prescribe it often. It is sort of a "last resort" type intervention.

This drug is very difficult and potentially toxic. Here are the Medwatch statistics on reported cases of side effects. Notice the low graph at the top of the page....this means not many people using it now.

http://www.drugcite.com/?q=MEXITIL
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