I was pleased that it was not so bad driving the cab last night, I think because the seat leans back a bit. I thought I might need to lash my head to the headrest with a bungee cord (only kidding).

When I was a paperboy in the 1960s, one of the people on my rout had his head on his chest. It was like his head fell down, turned left, and his left ear was touching his chest by his heart. I never knew the cause. Is it possible it was an extreme case of MG?

-Mark-

Has anybody considered the possibility that August Rodin's master work "The Thinker" was not a sculpture of a smart guy, but rather an undiagnosed Myastehenia Gravis sufferer?

-Mark-

Hi Mark,
Iīm confused about your Pred dosage: you write that you are on 60 mg per day but in an other thread, didnīt you say you weigh about 100 kg? That should make 60/100=0.6 mg/kg/d...?
BTW, your symtoms are almost identical to those I had when MG started in 2007. I was treated with 1 mg/d/kg for several months and slowly tapered during 18 months to 5 mg/d for an almost normal life till I relapsed due to a trial to 4 mg/d combined with a pneumo shot which sent me 2 years back. I repeated the whole process with less success as Iīm now on 7.5 mg/d and one PLEX every 7 or 8 weeks.
I was also treated with Cellcept for several years without effect, I coudnīt take Imuran as I am also on allopurinol.
Maurice.

No. My dose has been 60 mg per day, or 1.8mg/kg/day since November 15th. It feels longer. I will see my neuro on Monday the 3rd. I still have 12-days worth of doses. I wonder if my neuro will have me have me finish the whole prescription.

-Mark-

Hello Mark,
Sorry for this but you wrote “To date I weigh (and dropping) 235 pounds or 106 kilogram...“ and since you take 60 mg per day, you are on 60/106 or about 0.6 mg/kg/day and not 106/60 or 1.8 mg/kg/d...
Maurice.

Maurice,

Thank you for finding my mistake. It is a huge difference. I though you needed to divide the weight by the dose. And since I got the number I expected, something between 1.2 and 2.0 mg/kg/day, I stopped there.

I found a great calculator at http://www.medcalc.com/pedidose.html

I won't need to rely on my native intelligence the next time, good thing too.

Take care,

-Mark-