Health Boards
Fri-25-04-2014, 19:46 PM
Hello Cindy,
Welcome to the forum and very nice to meet you.
I read my name already in above posts, so well, hi hi, that gives obligations
, but I am happy with that.
Nice that you are going with fumaderm, although I prefer to mention the working substance dimethylfumarates, as both Jim, Bill and I use it in different forms.
Jim uses it just alike you, Bill is using the real tough approach and I am using a specific slow release medication.
Unlike Bill, I am more for the gradual approach, do a slowly build up. Get used to the stuff and the effects.
It is important to realize that it is a slow working medication, so don't worry, it still may start working, maybe it is even working already without you noticing it. 70% of the users benefit from it, so there is a good chance that it works for you also.
I made a little graphic for you, it represents 3 phases of use, the building up phase, you continue increasing until it starts working.
![[Image: 14006527802_d8603569f1_o.png]](https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7034/14006527802_d8603569f1_o.png)
Then after that there is the stabilization phase, which is as long as the building up phase, so when you are really stable (assuming that it works for you). Then again there is a phase in which you can try to reduce. Do that very slowly and controlled. Go down until the first signs appear again, and then go one step up again.
Maximum of using fumaderm is 6x120 mg.
There is a maximum, because of the additives that are in fumaderm.
Eg Bill's approach and mine do not have this limitation. I know people that use triple of the max fumaderm dose.
Be sure to have your blood levels on specifically lymphocytes checked regularly, they may not go too low.
Well that is the main line of what I have to tell.
Please keep us posted.
Btw, this is a nice forum, so do look around a bit.
Caroline.
Welcome to the forum and very nice to meet you.
I read my name already in above posts, so well, hi hi, that gives obligations
, but I am happy with that. Nice that you are going with fumaderm, although I prefer to mention the working substance dimethylfumarates, as both Jim, Bill and I use it in different forms.
Jim uses it just alike you, Bill is using the real tough approach and I am using a specific slow release medication.
Unlike Bill, I am more for the gradual approach, do a slowly build up. Get used to the stuff and the effects.
It is important to realize that it is a slow working medication, so don't worry, it still may start working, maybe it is even working already without you noticing it. 70% of the users benefit from it, so there is a good chance that it works for you also.
I made a little graphic for you, it represents 3 phases of use, the building up phase, you continue increasing until it starts working.
Then after that there is the stabilization phase, which is as long as the building up phase, so when you are really stable (assuming that it works for you). Then again there is a phase in which you can try to reduce. Do that very slowly and controlled. Go down until the first signs appear again, and then go one step up again.
Maximum of using fumaderm is 6x120 mg.
There is a maximum, because of the additives that are in fumaderm.
Eg Bill's approach and mine do not have this limitation. I know people that use triple of the max fumaderm dose.
Be sure to have your blood levels on specifically lymphocytes checked regularly, they may not go too low.
Well that is the main line of what I have to tell.
Please keep us posted.
Btw, this is a nice forum, so do look around a bit.
Caroline.