Folic Acid Treatment Report
See also: Folinic Acid
What is Folic Acid?
Folic acid is an important nutrient which may be useful in the prevention of atherosclerosis and neural tube birth defects. In addition, it has been used for anemias, depression, and osteoporosis. It is available in prescription and over the counter preparations.
Reasons taken & Efficacy
| Reasons taken | # of patients | Major | Moderate | Slight | None | Can’t tell | # of patients evaluated by |
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| General health | 48 |
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3 | ||
| Other | 19 | 0 | |||||
| Support another treatment | 12 |
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5 | |
| Brain fog | 6 | 0 | |||||
| Pregnancy | 3 |
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2 | |||
| Slow my MS progress | 3 | 0 |
See all 114 patients currently taking Folic Acid
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Dosages
Top 10 dosages based on patients currently taking Folic Acid. See all 22 dosages ►
| 0.8mg as needed | daily | 0.8 mg daily | 1 daily | 1 mg daily | 1.6 mg daily | 2 mg daily | 2.4 mg daily | 3 mg daily | 3.2 mg daily | 5 mg daily | 6 mg daily | 11 mg daily | 100 mg daily | 400 daily | 400 mcg daily | 400 mg daily | 500 mg daily | 600 mcg daily | 800 mcg daily | 1200 mcg daily | 1600 mcg daily | ||
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16
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34
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6
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13
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5
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3
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1
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1
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1
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2
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1
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1
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1
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4
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8
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5
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2
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1
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5
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2
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1
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Stop Reasons
| Reason | # Patients | Percentage of patients | |
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Other
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7 | 54% |
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Course of treatment ended
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3 | 23% |
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Did not seem to work
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2 | 15% |
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Doctor's advice
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2 | 15% |
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Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼
See more information, including instructions, precautions, side effects, and interactions.
Patient Evaluations
See all 10 patient evaluations
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- klunzig
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Mild
- Cognition: none
- Vision: none
- Speech: none
- Swallowing: none
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: moderate
- See profile
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- klunzig
- 1 mg daily
- since Oct 15, 2009
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Efficacy
Major
for Support another treatment
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips The combination of Folic acid with Methotrexate works wonders for me. I was nauseous most of the time, but the folic acid solved that problem completely!! See full evaluation
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- nysteelerfan
- Sex: M
- Sensation: Moderate
- Overall: Moderate
- Cognition: moderate
- Vision: moderate
- Speech: moderate
- Swallowing: moderate
- Upper limb: moderate
- Walking: moderate
- See profile
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- nysteelerfan
- 1.6 mg daily
- since May 10, 2009
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Efficacy
Slight
for General health
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Side Effects
None
- Advice/Tips just another pill to take everyday... See full evaluation
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- DUB
- Sex: F
- Sensation: Mild
- Overall: Mild
- Cognition: mild
- Vision: mild
- Speech: mild
- Swallowing: mild
- Upper limb: mild
- Walking: moderate
- See profile
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- DUB
- 0.8 mg daily
- since Mar 21, 2009
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Efficacy
None
for Pregnancy
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Side Effects
None
- See full evaluation
See all 10 patient evaluations
Report created on November 22, 2009.