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Thu-20-08-2015, 13:00 PM
Everybody who is using Fumaderm, or DMF, seems to speak of stomach cramps.....
But are you sure it is your stomach?
The fumaderm tablets have a coating that should prevent them to falling apart in the stomach. They should fall apart in the intestines. So I would expect you have belly cramps....
If I have troubles, then it is never in my stomach, but mostly in my intestines. And than also limited in the sense that I have to stay close to the toilet, with me it can last for an hour or so. In the form of "cramp" ... toilet: yes or no ... no, then later another cramp (if you can call it a cramp, it is mostly a feeling that you have to go to the toilet quickly, sometimes not always possible and than it expresses more or less like a cramp to prevent inconveniences....
) etc. until it is out.. Then the cramps are gone.
Difference, I am using a different medication than Fumaderm. This medication releases the DMF slowly in your intestines, which makes it much easier to deal with. Also Fumaderm contains additives and monoethylfumates, which my medication doesn't have.
As DMF seems to be more and more a useable product for psoriasis, PsA, Crohns, Lichen scleroses, MS, open wounds with elderly people, etcetera, one should expect that better medication should be invented. There is one drawback, the medication is too cheap and therefore not interesting for big pharma.
Caroline. "trying to spread some light in the complex world of DMF reactions "
But are you sure it is your stomach?
The fumaderm tablets have a coating that should prevent them to falling apart in the stomach. They should fall apart in the intestines. So I would expect you have belly cramps....
If I have troubles, then it is never in my stomach, but mostly in my intestines. And than also limited in the sense that I have to stay close to the toilet, with me it can last for an hour or so. In the form of "cramp" ... toilet: yes or no ... no, then later another cramp (if you can call it a cramp, it is mostly a feeling that you have to go to the toilet quickly, sometimes not always possible and than it expresses more or less like a cramp to prevent inconveniences....
) etc. until it is out.. Then the cramps are gone. Difference, I am using a different medication than Fumaderm. This medication releases the DMF slowly in your intestines, which makes it much easier to deal with. Also Fumaderm contains additives and monoethylfumates, which my medication doesn't have.
As DMF seems to be more and more a useable product for psoriasis, PsA, Crohns, Lichen scleroses, MS, open wounds with elderly people, etcetera, one should expect that better medication should be invented. There is one drawback, the medication is too cheap and therefore not interesting for big pharma.
Caroline. "trying to spread some light in the complex world of DMF reactions
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