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I have been prescribed this drug for a heart condition. Has anyone else been prescribed this drug for a similar condition.

Depends on a lot of things. If you have cardiac amyloidosis after chronic inflammation or familial Meditteranean fever, this sounds entirely appropriate. Otherwise, it is not normally used in heart disease. JFW | T@lk 02:35, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC)

Edits by Gzuckier

I like the edits recently done by Gzuckier, I think they add to ease of read. But I think they add a bit of redundancy and repitition to the affected sentence. The repeated bits (chromosome seperation) were originally added by me, but I prefer gzuckier's edit, but i don't feel worthy to fix the flow of the article, perhaps someone can step up to the plate?

Adenosine | Talk 02:11, July 14, 2005 (UTC)

I recently was prescribed Cholchicine for FMF that I had for 20 years before any doctor could figure it out. However now that I take the pill everyday I am afraid that it could be causing detriments to my body. Any suggestions to counter them?

Blakeslee and Avery

[1] Samsara (talk • contribs) 02:22, 11 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Correction about use early in gout attack

I removed the sentence "Starting the drug early during an attack of gout can exacerbate the symptoms" because it's probably wrong:

1. There was no reference.

2. It's contrary to what I've heard and my experience.

3. See http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/406509_6 and http://www.rheumatology.org/public/factsheets/gout_new.asp which say it's good in early gout.

4. Some other drugs such as Allopurinol are bad early in an attack which is possibly the source of the confusion.

5. I could be wrong and would be happy to read references saying that colchicine is bad in early gout.

Stevechelt 17:21, 11 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I would agree with the above -- in fact I begged my doctor to give me allopurinol in the start of my gout attack (after a break in medication due to various reasons). But he said that could cause a flare up and said this has to be taken. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.167.92.39 (talk) 16:17, 1 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Grammar/Syntax Correction

The reference to the IV colchicine that was implicated in patient deaths indicated that the preparation was 10 times as strong as indicated on the label. I edited the article to reflect that fact. Justus R 12:32, 2 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Colchicine as an FDA approved drug

I edited the text as Colchicine on its own is not FDA approved, it belongs to a group of drugs prescribed prior to FDA enforcement. I do know however that URL is submitting or have submitted a 505 b 2 application to the FDA for approval.

http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/unapproved_drugs/industry.htm#unapproved_drugs_coordinator

TT—Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.9.100.40 (talk) 17:21, 19 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]