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Old 05-23-2013, 05:30 PM #1
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How did you guys figure out when you were taking to much mestinon, the symptoms are the same of an overdose as an underdose.
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I accidentally took twice what I was supposed to. My tongue felt tingly and thick. Then I got screamingly urgent diarrhea. Shall we call it projectile? I had trouble talking. I believe that my pupils were constricted, but I am not sure because my vision was fuzzy. I also had muscle twitches. I was not terribly weak as far as walking as I would be if I forgot my pill. I walked to my car and drove home from work. Within an hour I was ok.
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When my prednisone started to kick in I needed to drop my mestinon dose. I got numbness and tingling in my lips, tongue and roof of my mouth. I also had pretty bad nausea and extreme weakness.
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The maximum amount of mestinon, I was on was 90mg four times a day and 180 at night. I once double dosed by accident and felt no ill effects. In fact, I have never experienced any of the bad side effects from mestinon. My mestinon starts wearing off about 3 to 3.5 hours after dosing. I can always tell without looking at my watch, because I start to experience excessive sweating and weakness like i am going to faint. It reminds me it is almost time to take my mestinon.

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How did you guys figure out when you were taking to much mestinon, the symptoms are the same of an overdose as an underdose.
I took too much my first few days on Mestinon, I also had diahrea, constricted pupils, muscle twitches and spasms.
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When I took too much Mestinon, I got random (painless) muscle twitches.

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