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Originally Posted by suev
The increased weakness 1 hour after pill is of some concern. Perhaps the dose is too much...or too much too soon. My neuro started me out slower..and ramped up with time. I never had any side effects and noticed immediate improvement in my ptosis and duration of muscle duration.
Talk to your doc, but some folks here (myself included) take less. but more often. I take 30 mg roughly every 3 hours....making some time adjustments depending upon how I'm feeling. But I don't recommend making adjustments without your doc on board...and most especially without some experience of how you and Mestinon get along over a week or more period of time.
But....if you have any significant increased weakness after Mestinon....don't fool with that. Stop taking it and call neuro for advice.
Let us know how it goes.
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I had a real bad reaction to my first dose of mestinon. My first neuro had me start at 60mg and it turned out I had to work up to that. I had bad diarrhea and twitching everywhere which I thought was a seizure. I went to the ER and they gave me Lorazepam and I slept until the side effects went away. Then I worked up to the correct dosage. I'm not sure why that didn't just give me atropine except that I went to the standalone ER which I've since learned isn't equipped to handle me and I won't go back to again (even though its supposed to be the same as the hospital ERs).
Anyway, its possible you don't have MG, or maybe you are just on the wrong dose. You're neuro would be the best person to make that call.