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Old Sun Nov 12, 2017, 06:48 PM
Meri T. Meri T. is offline
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Joseph,
I take cyclosporin every 12 hours : 9 am and 9pm.

In the booklet I received from the hospital wrote that it should be taken on an empty stomach to absorb better. So I checked it with the nurses, they said, I could take it after breakfast together with my other meds.

I checked with 2 separate pharmacists. They both said spacing is what matters, the doctors want cyclosporin to be in your system all the time, hence 12 hours apart.

I'm 50kgs and I take one 25mg pill at 9am, and another 25mg pill at 9pm. If I go in for a blood test, then I take cyclosporin after the test so that it doesn't fake the results. The spacing should at least be 6 hours apart (according to the pharmacist).

So, just to let you know that at my hospital went with, food or without food should be OK, preferably without food, just as long as you space it for 12 hours.

Meri
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