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k s e - 20 Dec 2003 07:16 GMT

Hi Everyone,

It's been months since I last posted and was diagnosed with ADD by my
nuerologist. Since being put on Strattera for the ADD, I've been
prescribed a drug called Aricept which is an alzheimer's medication. I
take it foor my memory (I'm 34).

The reason I'm back is because she prescribed Prednisone for this pain I
have on the top left side of my head. It's one of those bearable pains
that just lingers and gets worse it seems when I move a lot bend up and
down. Why would she give me a steroid? We talked about the fact that my
mother has migranes, but I've never heard of a headache that lasts for
months. This pain is dull, but constant.

If anyone has feedback about Prednisone and what it's for I'd appreciate
it. You see, she told me to contact her within 4 or 5 days of taking
this regime of pills which has me slightly concerned.

Thanks.

Karen

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gaross - 22 Dec 2003 00:47 GMT

I e-mailed you a couple of links (tonight) that I just found within the
General Medications Glossary, with 2 addresses specific to each pill. I had
to do some tinkering within http://www.webmd.com/
There's a Teenie word 'sitemap' at Bottom of page, click that and you can
get somewhere along there to the Medications glossary, click the alpha
letter of each of the 2 meds you asked about (below). They're both in
there, with a printer friendly option for each page.

Write me Direct if those didn't get delivered O.k.

From what I was able to read on them, they Look a lot like Other AEDs in
that Alcohol messes them up, Prompt withdrawal should be avoided, and dose
rates up or down should only be done w. the Doctor's supervision.
With respect to 'other things' a med. might be used for, I use Tegretol
CR (for one), and it's also used in some cases for people who have had
Strokes or some Heart Conditions, so just because what you found might be
the First Use that researchers found for a medication, sometimes there's a
synergy that allows a particular pill to be used for more than one
condition, in our case seizures. G.R.

> Hi Everyone,
>
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> Thanks.
> Karen

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M - 23 Dec 2003 13:03 GMT

> With respect to 'other things' a med. might be used for, I use Tegretol
>CR (for one), and it's also used in some cases for people who have had
>Strokes or some Heart Conditions, so just because what you found might be
>the First Use that researchers found for a medication, sometimes there's a
>synergy that allows a particular pill to be used for more than one
>condition, in our case seizures. G.R.

Sitting here, watching the raindrops find their way down the window, I
feel like being pedantic:

Seizures are not a condition, they are a symptom.

How many people here are being treated for the condition, and how many
for the symptoms? AFAIK, VNS and surgery are the only current treatments
for epilepsy, all the rest are for seizure control. Epilepsy is more
common than many high-profile conditions, but the money is poured into
high profile research, and curing epilepsy gets swept under the carpet.

How about us all coming off our meds for a week next year for a "Show
the public what epilepsy's like" demo? No doubt many would argue that
would be dangerous, because epilepsy kills. But is the general public
aware of that, or is it more interested in designer babies? Maybe it is
a sad fact that some of us have to die to promote public awareness, and
get something done.

Sometimes I can't help feeling that we are a silent majority when it
comes to debilitating conditions.

End of pedantic / provocative mode. Off to have another attempt at
getting round Sainsbury's (I gave up last night and walked out empty-
handed).

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gaross - 23 Dec 2003 20:35 GMT

*** Parts of below have comments or phrasing that are somewhat 'snarkier'
that even *I* might be this time of year, but I have one of those 'low air
pressure' headaches someone said didn't exist earlier this year. So read it
with that in mind, as often these types of replies I might Either hit Delete
and they never appear, OR I'd spend another 40 minutes cleaning up text so
that some word, hyphen or comma can't be misinterpreted by Someone,
Somewhere on the Planet.
It's late in the P.M., my ISP is going online and offline for whatever
reason, and I can't be bothered rewriting what's already below. Sorry for
anyone who might think it's too negative for this 'time of year'. Maybe I'd
be more mellow if I had been Naughtier this year.... :-<

Alternatively, scroll past All the Text stuff, to last 2 lines only.
// G.R.

> > With respect to 'other things' a med. might be used for, I use Tegretol
> >CR (for one), and it's also used in some cases for people who have had
> >Strokes or some Heart Conditions, so just because what you found might be
> >the First Use that researchers found for a medication, sometimes there's a
> >synergy that allows a particular pill to be used for more than one

*****************************************************

> >**condition**, in our case seizures. G.R.

*************************

> Sitting here, watching the raindrops find their way down the window, I
> feel like being pedantic:
>
> Seizures are not a condition, they are a symptom.

****G. ** Go ahead- be pedantic. My post above was reply to someone asking
about a medication I have used (and is used for Heart conditions **and Ep.)
It wasn't intended as 'bait'.
You cut out the context of what my reply was *to, during editing, and left
one word to worry about, out of a total post of probably 300 words. That's
not even a statistically significant percentage. /G.

> How many people here are being treated for the condition, and how many
> for the symptoms? AFAIK, VNS and surgery are the only current treatments
> for epilepsy, all the rest are for seizure control. Epilepsy is more
> common than many high-profile conditions, but the money is poured into
> high profile research, and curing epilepsy gets swept under the carpet.

*G* Wherever the Worldwide figures are, more people (and children) die each
*day from starvation, SARs and Aids than likely die in a Year from Epilepsy
or side effects. I don't have the figures to back that up, but I thought
you might have had some background with statistics, during Teacher training.
/

> How about us all coming off our meds for a week next year for a "Show
> the public what epilepsy's like" demo? No doubt many would argue that
> would be dangerous, because epilepsy kills. But is the general public
> aware of that, or is it more interested in designer babies? Maybe it is
> a sad fact that some of us have to die to promote public awareness, and
> get something done.

***** G. Why would you think it necessary that 'the public cares', or for
that matter, that one of us has to die to raise general awareness wrt
seizures?
Ahead of Christmas over here, it's 'condition Orange' at all the major
edifices, Government buildings and airports. Why would someone who doesn't
Know anyone touched by a particular condition care at this time of year?
How many people do you know that will succumb before year end to some
*other 'condition' (my neighbour, across the street, was one, last week --
let me **call it whatever I want).
My 'little Sister' was 50.5 Dec.23/97, when she collapsed into my Mom's
arms of a Heart Attack. /

> Sometimes I can't help feeling that we are a silent majority when it
> comes to debilitating conditions.

****************************

> End of pedantic / provocative mode. >

G. Then you were going out shopping..... how debilitating was that? -- /

> Malcolm

****************************************************************************

Better to end like the Charlie Brown Christmas program ---> "Merry
Christmas Everyone",
or Have a Safe, Healthy and Happy 2004 ....... G./

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Dave ???? - 23 Dec 2003 22:59 GMT

Howdy Malcom!

No thanks...

My newyears resolution is to give up masochism!

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"Noli illigitemi carborundum decendus"

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> Sitting here, watching the raindrops find their way down the window, I
> feel like being pedantic:
[quoted text clipped - 20 lines]
> getting round Sainsbury's (I gave up last night and walked out empty-
> handed).

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M - 24 Dec 2003 01:17 GMT

>Howdy Malcom!
>
>No thanks...
>
>My newyears resolution is to give up masochism!

Betcha can't stick to it :)

Happy Xmas,

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