Has anyone taken Ranitidine 150mg?
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Hi All, had to see doc yesterday (just a review of medication I'm taking). Well I was fit to be tied. I think I have done pretty well - Started Nov '14 on 20mg and am at present on 3.5mg - and not had any flares ( fingers crossed). Gps opinion as follows - I really should be off pred by now and also should decrease 1mg every time I am reducing. Also said not to believe everything I read on this forum. Only for this forum I don't know where I would be. I was asked who is managing my PMR and my honest answer was myself. Am too angry to go into details now grrrrrrrr.
Yes has anyone taken Ranitidine 150mg twice a day - if so could you let me know how you got on with them? I couldn't take omeprazole as I had been on them 10years or more and they were ineffective for reflux - dr. changed me to lansoprazole - can't take them due to severe constipation. So am now on my second day of Ranitidine and feel ok. Any information would be gratefully received and thanks in advance.
Acid reflux long before PMR
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cb72360 pat38625
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Good luck!
pat38625 cb72360
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susan29426 pat38625
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You make me grateful for my doctors! My rheumatologist is particularly respectful of the information I bring from this discussion. Everyone except your doctor seems to agree that one should decrease by 10% or less, especially under 10 mg of prednisone. I agree, you're doing great on the taper. Wish I were having those results. Best wishes.
Michdonn susan29426
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You, are lucky. I won't even tell my Rheumy that I am on a forum, never mind share information!
BettyE Michdonn
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What we need is a backlash against closed minds ans self interest.
EileenH BettyE
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Michdonn BettyE
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Yes, yes, but unfortunately big money is in control of the world medical supplies and as long they control, they will continue to make more and more money. The cost of some meds here is as much as a thousand times higher than elsewhere. I can understand, twice as much, maybe even 3 or 4 times as much, but it is crazy here. One of my diabetes drugs, the government, Medicare? negotiate a price insurance pays like 80% and I then $50 plus for a month's supply. I do not know how people without insurance do it!
Anhaga Michdonn
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How about this (from BBC website) The head of a US pharmaceutical company has defended his company's decision to raise the price of a 62-year-old medication used by Aids patients by over 5,000%.
Turing Pharmaceuticals acquired the rights to Daraprim in August.
CEO Martin Shkreli has said that the company will use the money it makes from sales to research new treatments.
The drug treats toxoplasmosis, a parasitic affliction that affects people with compromised immune systems.
After Turing's acquisition, a dose of Daraprim in the US increased from $13.50 (£8.70) to $750.
Michdonn Anhaga
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EileenH Michdonn
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But the point is Michdonn - that drug is no longer branded, like other drugs that pharmaceutical companies have raised the price for. The price of 20mg tablets of hydrocortisone (in the UK at least), a drug predominantly used for patients with adrenal insufficiency, was increased in price by 1200% after the UK company making it was bought out. The cost of making it hadn't gone up, the company had no development costs to justify it. It was GREED.
These cost increases are for GENERIC drugs.
BettyE EileenH
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EileenH BettyE
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pat38625 susan29426
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Thank you so much Susan - I think you're half way there when you have got good drs/rheumies behind you - it makes such a difference - she is not my regular dr. Also I discharged myself from the hospital Rheumy - I am more than a hospital number. Good luck to you Susan on your journey.
Michdonn EileenH
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manufacturers? So they just the price? Can the drug be bought in
Canada? Many Americans are now purchasing their drugs in
Canada!
EileenH Michdonn
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The NHS negotiates large supply contracts - and this company had been providing it for some years. They were taken over - and put up the price they were demanding. I don't know what is happening - but they have to be assured there is a supply until they can find another supplier. This is life-and-death medication - you can't just say, use something else.