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Acetazolamide for altitude sickness?

I know that Acetazolamide can be used to treat altitude sickness but has anyone heard of it being used to prevent it until a person has acclimatized by decreasing the amount of bicarb reabsorbed from the proximal convoluted tubule?

i was put on it for a acute glaucoma attack, i constantly feel tired and nausea is very bad .is this a side effect of the acetazolamide ? i have heard you are not usually on this medication long,does anyone know about it?

at the er room to bring down the raised pressure how long would you be on it for before laser treatment only i heard that they did not keep you on acetazolamide for long

or help with this or even the many yahoo members who know anyway .i have had chronic glaucoma for years ,which has been well managed with eye drops,but last week i felt really ill and had sore eyes , and very nauseas i went to eye emergency,and doctor said i had glaucoma attack, and would need surgery,he gave me acetazolamide and said ;you wont be on them for long; but when i went to my consultant 2 days later he said; stay on them for 3 weeks ; then come back,those pills make you feel terrible and the thought of this feeling for 3 weeks ,i thought i was getting the lasor treatment there and then ,not being kept on pills, the worst thing about this glaucoma attack is the terrible nausea why is this what is causing the nausea has anyone else been on those pills and for how long,and when they came off them and got lasor treatment did they feel any better

and how long would you be on it for is this the on going treatment for it to keep the raised pressure down or would you get something else

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Magaslati betegs?gek - Szuper H?r

Magaslati betegs?gek Szuper H?r, Hungary Megel?z?sk?nt lehet alkalmazni tov?bb? az acetazolamide nev? v?zhajt?t (2x250mg, vagy 1x500mg hossz? hat?s?), mivel cs?kkenti a t?d? ?s/vagy agy?d?ma kialakul?s?t, vagy dexamethasone nev? szteroidot (6 ?r?nk?nt 1x4 mg, vagy 8 mg-ot egyszerre).