I have a prescription for Salagen. The pills are very tiny and coated so they are easy for me to swallow. I am thinking of changing over to Evoxac with my doc's approval. However, I don't know what size the pills are for Evoxac. If any of you are taking Evoxac, can you tell me if the pill size is small like the Salagen? I cannot take large pills by mouth yet. I can take tiny pills ok though. Looking forward to hearing from someone. Thanks!

The Evoxac that my husband takes is a capsule. It's not huge, but I'm sure it's bigger than what you are taking now. If you go to this web site you can see the actual size of the capsule:

http://www.walgreens.com/library/finddrug/druginfo1.html;jsessionid=D38C22C77A86AA9B5E42B45099D9A9FC.a_00?particularDrug=Evoxac&id=16331

My husband is very happy with the Evoxac.

Good luck with whatever you decide.

Hi I just noticed your post on Salagen. My husband was given a scrip for that today. The doc advised to start taking it a few days before treatment. Is there a particular reason you are wanting to stop taking it? Anything we should watch out for?
THANKS!!!!

Michelle, I have taken salagen for 2 and 1/2 years. It helps the little salivary function I have produce more saliva. The only problem is I kind of get a burst of saliva after taking it and sometimes have to much (spit a little when I talk--hate that) but then I get very dry again before it's time to take another.

Salagen can have some serious side effects for some people-sweats, blurred vision and other stuff but I have never had any of those effects and I take the maximum dose(once ina while if I take it on a completely empty stonmach first thing in the morning I will feel a little sweaty for about 5-10 minutes once it gets in my system, not a big deal).

I am now curious whether Evoxac is only in a capsule form. If that's true, I can't swtich to it since I have to grind up my medications. I guess I should be glad the salagen works!

Nelie

I took Salagen for 2 1/2 years starting when I started radiation. I believe it worked because I have fair amount of saliva despite having had one of my major slaiva glands removed. The only side effect I experienced was perspiring for about 5 minutes a half hour after I took it. The tablets were tiny and I took a very low dose 3 times a day. Was allowed up to 6 times a day. The only major problem I had came on a day when the humidity and the temp were both at 100. I had no A/C and was perspiring like crazy. Stopped the pill and problem went away. Since I didn't seem to lose any saliva, I never started taking it again. Try it. If he starts perspiring too much, cut back the dosage. It's worth it to maintain some saliva.

Thanks Eileen - doc said in his experience his patients report the bad side effects are week one and then they level off. He did tell us about the sweating. He didn't mention the humidity factor and since we live in Alabama we have about 6 months of humidity never lower than 80% and often reaching 100%. I'll just have to keep the air going extra strong!!!

michelle, it's just that i had heard that evoxac wasn't supposed to have as many side effects as the salagen. but i'm going to continue to take the salagen because i am not having any side effects from it except a little sweating once in a while. i think it works good.

I finished up treatment in August 2007. I started taking salagen around November 2007 and have not had any side affects. I finally started getting some saliva back in late January 2008 - 5 months after treatment.