Posted by Ritch on June 19, 2003, at 0:07:16
In reply to Dilantin - anyone ever use?, posted by Barbara Cat on June 18, 2003, at 21:58:08
> I've read the Dreyfus book "A Remarkable Medicine has been overlooked". It's an anti-convulsive and according to the book, the best thing since dark chocolate. Any experiences?
Hi Barb,
My Mom was on 100mg Dilantin 4x daily with phenobarbitol for seizures. I never took any of her pills or was prescribed Dilantin. Do you still have your teeth or have you gotten dentures? She lost all her teeth to gum disease/overgrowth in her late 30's indirectly from long-term Dilantin use. Eeek, I remember her coming home from the dentist (or surgeon) after having all of them extracted when I was a kid. Not to say that lower doses would be OK, or if you monitored it closely you could prevent it, but that is what happened to her. Just an FYI.
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