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How much 6mp do you take? I'm 5'9 155 and I take 75mg every night.

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Posted 11/29/2010 3:39 PM (GMT 0)
My doctor is always trying to raise my dose but I'd prefer not to.

What dose do you take?
Posted 11/29/2010 3:58 PM (GMT 0)
im taking 4 5mg a day for a week then 2 5mg a day for a week then 1
Posted 11/29/2010 4:01 PM (GMT 0)
so you are tapering off of 6mp?

sounds like really low dosage.
Posted 11/29/2010 4:49 PM (GMT 0)
I think they base the original dosage on your weight and then they tweak it depending on how your body is metabolizing it. I was taking 100mgs Mon, Thur and 50mgs rest of the week. But since I could never get into the therapeutic range, I am now on Allopurinol (which boosts the positive effect of 6mp while reducing the bad) and 25mgs of 6mp.

Have you been having your blood tested regularly? What about the Prometheus Metabolites test? Do you know what range you are in?
Posted 11/29/2010 5:01 PM (GMT 0)
I currently take 50mg but I was taking 75mg for a while.
Posted 11/30/2010 3:16 PM (GMT 0)
I take 125 mg. (2.5 tablets). I weigh around 112 lbs.
Posted 11/30/2010 11:56 PM (GMT 0)
I've been taking 75 mg (1 - 1/2 tablets) every day for the past year or so. The 75 mg 6mp does the trick and I'm in remission. I started at 50 mg and after three months of not change the doc increased the dose to 75 mg. I hate slitting the tablets in half so I dropped my dose to 50 mg without telling the doc. After two months I started to lightly flare again. I went back up to 75 mg and I'm back in remission. I've only gotten my white cell counted three times, maybe four times since I’ve been on 6mp and there has been no problems. How often do other people get the blood tested?    
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