Health Boards
Tue-14-03-2017, 12:18 PM
Hi Mac and welcome,
Did you have any disease when you started cutting back on the dosage? And if you were clear, how long had you been so? I found that after about six months a dose of 3*240 mg a day started losing effect.
As I am a self-medicating guinea pig I have even more scope to experiment than your dermatologist. The short of it is that I found greater efficacy with doses of 800 mg taken two or three times a week. This dose has not lost efficacy, and the longer I am on the drug the less rebound of disease I seem to have when I stop treatment.
I am currently testing 600 mg doses taken twice weekly. Like Jim and Caroline I get arthritis as well, so I think I will always need to take a fair whack. But I hold on to this little hope that my disease will keep reducing on the larger doses and eventually accord me option of a smaller maintenance dose.
Cheers,
Bill
Did you have any disease when you started cutting back on the dosage? And if you were clear, how long had you been so? I found that after about six months a dose of 3*240 mg a day started losing effect.
As I am a self-medicating guinea pig I have even more scope to experiment than your dermatologist. The short of it is that I found greater efficacy with doses of 800 mg taken two or three times a week. This dose has not lost efficacy, and the longer I am on the drug the less rebound of disease I seem to have when I stop treatment.
I am currently testing 600 mg doses taken twice weekly. Like Jim and Caroline I get arthritis as well, so I think I will always need to take a fair whack. But I hold on to this little hope that my disease will keep reducing on the larger doses and eventually accord me option of a smaller maintenance dose.
Cheers,
Bill