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Posted 8/19/2014 12:10 PM (GMT 0)
I tried to start smoking several months ago and just couldn't do it. Made me sick, lol. Giving the lozenges and patch a try. Why not. Would be nice to pair something with the humira that actually helped.
Posted 8/19/2014 12:35 PM (GMT 0)
Veggies have fiber tho don't they? Or do you mean you mostly eat
Meat and just a little veggie lol
Posted 8/19/2014 1:28 PM (GMT 0)
Dr a, you still might get sick doing the lozenges too. I definitely felt off when i started them but that went away when i switched to the patch.

Yes, veggies definitely have fiber.
Posted 8/19/2014 6:23 PM (GMT 0)
lol, just popped my first one. The tingling in mouth feeling is a little weird. No nausea just odd sensation.
Posted 8/19/2014 7:45 PM (GMT 0)
ahh good ok!! I had some dizziness and acid reflux but i got used to it. I used 4 mg cherry flavored. At first, they tasted like complete butt but i started to look forward to them after my first week!!!

Good luck!
Posted 8/20/2014 2:52 AM (GMT 0)
On my third for the day. Second one did cause some nausea but subsided pretty quickly. Gets 12 mg of the stuff into me. Who knows how much of that actually gets absorbed. Taking it the first day has been just a little less enjoyable than drinking the thick fiber crap but it is still more enjoyable than crapping my underpants. Not that I have done that lately, but I try and keep that at the top of my mind. Hopefully I can adjust to this and get up to the 21 mg patch.
Posted 8/20/2014 3:11 AM (GMT 0)
I hope u see some improvement, dr a! What are your symptoms like now??

I cant remember how quickly i increased but i think i got to 21 mg after 3 weeks or so. I got sick of eating five lozenges a day. The patch is way more convenient for me. I just forget to take it off before bed sometimes and i dont fall asleep at all. I will notice it on my arm at 7 am after being up all night and i get ticked off!
Posted 8/20/2014 3:19 AM (GMT 0)
Also, if anyone needs lozenges and cant afford them, i can mail you my extra bottles if u wanna give it a try (no charge). I know it is expensive living with this disease. I still have three bottles of cherry lozenges 4 mg.
Posted 8/21/2014 6:30 PM (GMT 0)
Yesterday got through them pretty easily. Today ramping it up to 4. Things take forever to dissolve.
Posted 8/22/2014 4:10 PM (GMT 0)
Cautiously optimistic, probably just a good day. Been down that road before. We shall see. Last 2-3 weeks have had increasing trips to the bathroom in evening before leaving work with just little mucous and blood. Frequency and urgency have been on the increase. Have woke up through night several times which is always a sign of things to come. This seemed to be inevitable after coming off a pred taper, which I had done great on until I stopped the pred. Then the same ole 2 weeks later things going south continually. I am on Humira every week which seems to do something but just not enough. Immuran also used in conjuction. Last doctors visit 3 weeks ago prescribed Uceris but still waiting on the insurance thing. Started this Tue, Wed, Thursday no trips to bathroom at office in evening and none at home last night, slept through night last night, didn't have to get up and semi good morning. Had 4 or 5 of the lozenges yesterday.... lost count. Don't know if nicotine or not but also slight mood improvement. Slight energy increase. Didn't pass out in chair yesterday evening, lol.
Posted 8/22/2014 10:30 PM (GMT 0)
i surely hope you have many more good days ahead of you, dr. a!!! glad you don't get any side effects from the nicotine. i noticed that 21 mg was really the sweet spot and that is what i needed to get things under control.

it was the same with prednisone for me, too. i could not get off it even being on simponi and imuran. just didn't work for me enough.
Posted 8/22/2014 10:38 PM (GMT 0)
Seems ebay cheapest place to get some patches. about 24$ for months supply of 21mg.
Posted 8/22/2014 11:03 PM (GMT 0)
no freakin way!! i never thought to look on ebay! i will have to remember that.
Posted 8/25/2014 1:15 PM (GMT 0)
I'm definitely starting nicotine once I get out of the hospital. Can't wait to try it.
Posted 8/25/2014 4:14 PM (GMT 0)
What the heck is up with all the gas with the lozenges. Does the patch do that?
Posted 8/26/2014 5:35 AM (GMT 0)
lozenges gas could just be from sucking extra air.
I doubt you'd get that with the patch :)
Posted 8/26/2014 1:46 PM (GMT 0)
These types of lozenges just sit in your mouth. Not like a cough drop lozenge where suck on it. Definitely not from that.
Posted 8/28/2014 4:32 AM (GMT 0)
Nicotine is a stimulant... nothing like a cup of coffee and a smoke to make me crap my brains out... if I still crapped... or had brains ;)
Posted 8/28/2014 12:37 PM (GMT 0)
Goodbye again 12 y/o little troll.

Now attempting to smoke a cig would make me go to the toilet. This stuff hasn't had that affect. Had the gum last few days. Patches came in mail yesterday so I'll get one of those on today. No changes worth posting about.
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