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Does anyone take more than 200mg as an individual dose? If so how long between doses?

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I'll take (4) c/l 25/100 in the morning to rid my dystonia and remove the possibility of full body tremors without any dyskinesia and it usually only lasts 2.5-3 hrs.

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What do you do for the rest of the day?

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That's when all h*ll breaks loose and I take 1-2 c/l every 1.5 hours. I try to stretch the timing out as much as possible but my wearing off dyskinesia, tremors, or dystonia starts

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