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At 06:06 PM 1/8/97 -0500, you wrote:
>will johnston wrote:
>>
>> Which is better for you? Different people respond
>> differently to different drug delivery systems. The
>> active ingredients are the same. I am committed
>> to using the standard Sinemet for the duration of
>> the Entacapone drug study I am in.
>> There are also different strengths of Sinemet
>> available: 10/100, 25/100, 25/250 in the standard
>> Sinemet and 25/100 and 50/200 in the CR. All
>> tablets are scored to make it easy to break them
>> in half, effectively almost doubling the choices.
>> Which should you use? Standard? CR? CR with
>> a standard boost in the morning? The choice is up
>> to you and your physician.
>>
>
>Will,let me first congratulate you for your excelent contributions to
>this list.
>
>Secondly,I would appreciate if you would explain a little bit about the
>units of measurement in the case of use of tablets meds in the USA.
>
>In most countries in the ocidental world uses the unit mg (miligrams) to
>indicate the amount of a product in a med tablet.
>In this way we say each tablet contains 100 mg of levedopa,etc.
>
>Then I ask you,how to interpret the units 10/100 and 25/250 of
>Sinemet,standard or CR ?
>
>Regards,
>
> +----| Joao Paulo de Carvalho |------ +
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Joao,
You are correct as to the units. The first number is the weight of
carbidopa in milligrams, the second number is the weight of levodopa in
milligrams. The total weight of a 25/100 regular [instant release] Sinemet
tablet is about 165-170 milligrams - the extra weight being filler.
Today we are getting our first snow of winter. Guess you are headed into the
hot weather of summer. Your English is not perfect, but it is far better
thany Portugese I ever knew. There is a term for idiomatic non-standard
Americanese: Slanguage, a mixture of slang and language. I suppose it would
equate with the "langue vert" [not sure of the spelling] of France which
translates literally into "green language" in English.
I speak southern USA English, but the accent does not show much in writing.
Will
And here's to long "ons" and short "offs"
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