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Not at all, John. The amount I take poses no risk and by donating blood I will be able to keep an eye on my blood iron. To harm myself I would have to take a gram a day for several months. Wont happen.
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(Tue-21-08-2018, 09:08 AM)Bill Wrote: Not at all, John. The amount I take poses no risk and by donating blood I will be able to keep an eye on my blood iron. To harm myself I would have to take a gram a day for several months. Wont happen.
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I think it is very funny that you just can buy piles of the stuff in a hardware store for a low price, while in a drugstore you pay lots for it and only for a limited set of pills. Really amazing.
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Thank you Caroline. For things you inject there is no question of having very high purity, but the digestive tract has a greater tolerance. That being said, it is quite simple for me to remove over 90% of the impurities in the dimethyl fumarate that I have. It would be interesting to see if a higher purity product is noticeably different.
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(Thu-27-09-2018, 09:31 AM)Bill Wrote: Thank you Caroline. For things you inject there is no question of having very high purity, but the digestive tract has a greater tolerance. That being said, it is quite simple for me to remove over 90% of the impurities in the dimethyl fumarate that I have. It would be interesting to see if a higher purity product is noticeably different.
What kind of impurities are in your DMF, Bill?
Indeed if the digestive tract can cope with it, it is sufficient.
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The stuff I am using has 99% purity. About half the impurity is water, so per dose there would be around 4mg of non-water impurities. The main one would be dimethyl maleate, which is pretty noxious. However, the ld50 in rats is 1410mg/kg, so I am not terribly worried. Still, it might be doing something, so it might be worthwhile making a bit of high purity stuff to test.
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Love reading your posts Bill. I still think you're nuts, but at least you do keep coming back and updating.
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(Thu-27-09-2018, 13:56 PM)Fred Wrote: Love reading your posts Bill. I still think you're nuts, but at least you do keep coming back and updating.

Luckily Bill is not the only nut on this forum.
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Fred! My self-treatment looks so wrong but works so well. Look at all the members here under expert care and the problems they have. I have no justification to do otherwise, and at least I have excellent support from my GP.
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(Thu-27-09-2018, 19:09 PM)Bill Wrote: Fred! My self-treatment looks so wrong but works so well. Look at all the members here under expert care and the problems they have. I have no justification to do otherwise, and at least I have excellent support from my GP.
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You are absolutely right Bill. (And a very serious guy) And you know I am standing fully behind you.
Your DMF story is the big example I often use as an example for others on how cheap and easy it can be fighting Psoriasis with DMF,
One question I got from a small pharmacist (the Psorinovo producer) is, that how is it possible for you to work with this very irritating material. They themselves have a production facility where the person working in it is wearing some kind of astronauts high pressure costume.
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I only handle the dimethyl fumarate for a very short time, Caroline; on the palm of my hand for a bit over a minute each week. No irritation or visible change is evident. There might be a difference related to particle size: In my experience a smaller particle size causes more gastric upset.