But I had this idea to take it in maintenance doses whenever there were signs my cancer was coming back.

The duration of this treatment and the post-treatment maintenance dose is not known.

The initial and maintenance doses should be reduced in patients with severe liver disease.

Maintenance dose reached in 1 to 8 days.

Other ways to get this treatment are called cluster or rush immunotherapy, in which you reach the maintenance dose more quickly.

Corticosteroids are tapered to a low maintenance dose, 5-10 mg/day.

Once the maintenance dose is reached, the injections are administered less often (every two to four weeks), still on a regular basis.

Continuing the maintenance dose for about 4 to 5 half lives (t) of the drug will approximate the steady state level.

There has been discussion inside the Government about letting reliable patients leave a clinic and continue their maintenance doses under a physician's care.

But women who have been receiving desensitization shots can continue to do so at a maintenance dose during pregnancy.

After the loading dose, take a maintenance dose of two to five grams a day.

To be on just a maintenance dose?

The dose is increased each time until the maintenance dose is reached.

Routine blood work is necessary in the initial stages until a maintenance dose is established.

There are different schedules for the shots that try to achieve a maintenance dose more quickly than standard immunotherapy.

Mr. Snow said he planned to have intensive treatments for four months, then go on maintenance doses.

Some believe the results could be due to differences in aspirin maintenance doses, which are higher in the United States.

Allergen is given in gradually increasing doses until a maintenance dose is reached.

One or more doses higher than the maintenance dose can be given together at the beginning of therapy with a loading dose.

The required maintenance dose may be calculated as:

This is called the maintenance dose.

As long as the maintenance dose is continued, the cells will remain saturated with creatine, these experts say.

Though harmful effects at usual doses have not been reported, some healthcare providers decrease the maintenance dose by half during pregnancy.

All other doses (maintenance doses) are smaller and are given over 1 hour if tolerated.

After her delivery the symptoms did not decrease and a maintenance dose of oral prednisolone, 12.5 mg/day, was also prescribed.