I don't prescribe it but suggest to patients - most ask about it - that if
they want to try it they should try 1500mg od for 6 weeks as this is the
length in most of the rcts - there aren't many but most are positive and
only one (good one) negative
Lesley
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From: GP-UK [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Iain Hotchkies
Sent: 01 July 2004 08:40
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Subject: glucosamine
Anyone here regularly prescribing glucosamine to OA patients.
One of our local rheumatologists is dead keen on the notion and hardly a
letter escapes his signature without a comment that the patient would
benefit from this.. er... supplement? Extract? Protein?
For a long time, I thought it wasn't prescribable, but now, having asked the
PCT prescribing jobsworth, I find that it *is* prescribable, but
*unlicensed*.
Nice.
Or, should that be NICE!?!
So, I've been prescribing a bit of glucosamine & chondritin (because I can
spell it) recently.
Am I very wrong?
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