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Dosages for arthritis are pretty low, though.
Based on my experience, the standard dosage for rheumatoid arthritis is 400 mg/day vs 600 mg/day for COVID-19. To start with, anyway. I opted for 200 mg/day, and my rheumatologist concurred.
Works great for my autoimmune condition.
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Based on my experience, the standard dosage for rheumatoid arthritis is 400 mg/day vs 600 mg/day for COVID-19. To start with, anyway. I opted for 200 mg/day, and my rheumatologist concurred.
Dang. 400mg made me freak out. I have to take half that and can barley tolerate it. Works great for my autoimmune condition.
I can only stand it at night.
In the right corner we have the Yale School of Medicine which recommends HCQ for both the mild and severely ill patients: https://files-profile.medicine.yale.edu/documents/7801c631-3...
Let's see who will win.
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You could technically say that about Tylenol, but I doubt there’d be anyone jumping up and down about how dangerous it would be for a Covid 19 patient to take 500mg of it daily as part of a treatment regimen. There’s literally NO drugs approved specifically for Covid 19, but there are drugs, like HCQ, which are promising and well-understood in general.
Tylenol is an odd choice of example here given that it poses a risk of liver damage and for some subsets of the population it's actively dangerous to take it. We literally lace some drugs with Tylenol to make them "abuse-deterrent" because we know taking too much of it would harm you.
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> doesn't mean it's universally safe _Table salt_ is not safe. Eat 100 grams of it and you will die. This does, however, mean that it's not as "dangerous" as the mainstream press wants you to believe. It's a 50 year old drug used all over the world. If it was "deadly", we'd know it by now. CDC itself recommends taking it _as a prophylaxis_ when heading to the areas where malaria might be present: https://www.cdc.gov/…
This drug is not administered to everyone though. It's only been tested and verified for people with I believe lupus and malaria. So we don't know the implications of rolling it out to millions of people worldwide. That's why you do clinical trials.
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I think we can all intuitively see the distinction in risk tolerance between table salt consumption and HCQ consumption.
> I think we can all intuitively see the distinction in risk tolerance between table salt consumption and HCQ consumption. Good thing we have doctors that can decide the best course of treatment via HCQ then.
Except in New York.
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Tylenol is an odd choice of example here given that it poses a risk of liver damage and for some subsets of the population it's actively dangerous to take it. We literally lace some drugs with Tylenol to make them "abuse-deterrent" because we know taking too much of it would harm you.
500mg of Tylenol daily poses a risk of liver damage?
caloric undernutrition
acute liver failure
liver problems
severe renal impairment
a condition where the body is unable to maintain adequate blood flow called shock
acetaminophen overdose
acute inflammation of the liver due to hepatitis C virus
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Dang. 400mg made me freak out. I have to take half that and can barley tolerate it. Works great for my autoimmune condition.
What symptoms from it do you have? I can only stand it at night.
If I take it at night, I will toss and turn all night. Also a lot of vivid dreams.