Acyclovir and antibiotics
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Soar throat is cause by bacteria, I think you need antibiotics, but my best advice is to have a check up to your doctor first. Because, you have allergy to some antibiotics and so that they can give you the right antibiotics for your soar throat.
I started having very mild genital herpes outbreaks about eight months ago, and for this outbreak (only one small blister) I decided to take acyclovir tablets and acyclovir cream. I have no pain or itching. I have taken it for a day and a half, 200 mg every 4 hours, omitting the nighttime dose. My blister is pretty much gone, and Im wondering, would it be okay to stop taking the acyclovir? I read everywhere that Im supposed to take it for 5 days, but is it for the same reason as antibiotics?
You'd have to have a risk and test positive for these or any std's to be prescribed medication and your doctor would easily be able to do that. Syphilis is treated with antibiotics with penicillin often given. Herpes does not go away although people with herpes take medication to end an outbreak and often to suppress future outbreaks. These are antiviral medications like Acyclovir. But from your previous posts, you were told you didn't have a risk.
i had only 1 risk sexual contact and this person was also tested after 1 week of exposure and found negative for hiv and hcv and hbsag. the test that was used was elisa test 4. generation for bouth of us. is it possible that the result is false negative because of the acyclovir use (this person did not take any medicine at the time)?
Should I start taking my acyclovir? Can antibiotics trigger an outbreak? Is it harmful or ineffective to take antibiotics and acyclovir at the same time? Is it possible to be having a yeast infection and herpes at the same time?
any advice is appreciated. Thanks!
My daughter was diagnosed with Behcet's in 2008. Then in 2009 she contracted herpes (hsv2). She is now having an outbreak of herpes (starting to get under control after 2 rounds of valtrex, back on acyclovir for 2 days) and a flare of Behcet's. Prednisone will make the painful vaginal Behcet's lesions go away but will cause another outbreak of herpes.
Does anyone have any suggestions? She's about to leave for a required college trip.
Thanks.
When I started prophylactic treatment with acyclovir, I saw a reduced occurrence for a few months, then they came back to about 4-5 outbreaks/year. I recently switched prophylactic medication from acyclovir to famciclovir, and had a 18-month period free from outbreak. Come yesterday, I had another terrible outbreak (worse than usual)... will these become more commonplace now? Is this a sign of HSV-resistance to the drug? Are there any other courses of action I can consider?
My doctor was referring to a study wehre Acyclovir slowed disease progression in HIV by reducing viral load. And so he thought Acyclovir might have a direct effect (even if it is low) on HIV. Maybe he thought that by decreasing viral load antybodies would show up later than in the absence of Acyclovir?
t look like herpes (more likely staph infection), but took hsv antigen swab test and gave me some antibiotics and acyclovir pills. After I started medication (both the antibiotics and acyclovir) the symptoms started to disappear quite rapidly.
HSV antigen swab result came back positive. Unfortunately the test result was non-specific about HSV1 or HSV2. I was shocked, but eventually just continued with my life. The symptoms did not come back.
- Then on my fifth week (around 2 weeks after I stopped the above antibiotics because I am taking acyclovir for 2 weeks). I developed oral candidiasis in the form of median rhomboid glossitis. I applied nystatin drops 4 times daily, and the lession heals to around 80 percent in a day. But there's another new lession seemed to be developing right now.
- I have also been having persistent productive cough for almost a month now and have been feeling nasal congestion often times.
one day i went to go check the pills she gave me because i was on birth control and wanted to know if it would affect it so i looked up the name acyclovir to find out it was for the herpes simplex virus....i freaked out and called and asked them why they gave me a pill for herpes if i didn't have that and the nurse on the phone told me that its for more than one thing and that its best not to google things cause it give me false indications.....
The amount you were prescribed is for a first herpes ob ( the full 10 days ). It's not a recurrence dose.
The easiest way to use acyclovir for oral herpes is 800mg 3x/day for 2 days. It's not FDA approved as a dose but the literature backs it and it's become generally accepted as a dose ( acyclovir has been a generic for a long time so it's doubtful anyone is going to pay for the studies to go for fda approval of this dose ).
Once and awhile I will get a migraine often accompanied with with a scalp breakout and I stop taking the Acyclovir and lysine until the pain goes away. Then I resume my acyclovir and lysine. I now rarely have any problems. But I always have to go a week once and a while without my Acyclovir and Lysine. Is the herpes virus simply one of my triggers or is the herpes virus the root cause off all my migraines, I don't know. The pain and breakouts are always hemispheric in nature.
At this point I started feeling a tingling and oozing feeling. Went to ER and was told it was herpes but gave me antibiotics because I said that I was diagnosed with impetigo.It went away weeks later but kept having the tingling and oozing feeling. Went to doctor about 2 months later and he said that I came back positive for hsv1. Prescribed me acyclovir. Have been taking it for about 3 weeks now and am still feeling tingling and oozing affects.
Due to the fact the she was taking acyclovir and not experiencing an outbreak, your risk was low.
Lymph node swelling can be a symptom of HSV, but on and off burning is not. To solely experience pain without any other kinds of manifestations (lesions, ulcers, etc) is rare.
Taking acyclovir may delay development of antibodies, so it may be in your best interest to quit taking them so your blood test at 3-4 months will be more accurate.
Good luck.
Few Lesions (pimple like with red base) come and go everywhere in my body (cheeks, forehead, ear pinna, eyelids, chest, arm, forearm...). I have took acyclovir only for 10 days in October and am suffering a couple of lesions coming up and clearing in few days every now and then. This is companied by random itching occurring in different parts of the body without visible lesions, I also felt some shooting pain for a few seconds (rarely) into my penis.
acyclovir for recurrences is 400mg 3x/day for 5 days or 800mg 3x/day for 2 days. both doses heal ob's at the same rate.
definitely return to your provider this week or next and get a proper test for yeast and bacterial infections. make sure neither of them are triggering frequent recurrences for you.
why not suppressive therapy if you are having monthly ob's? even if they are "mild", isn't that just a pain in the butt to go through?
I was seen last week and given oral antibiotics and oral yeast infection meds (one dose). On Thursday, I ended up at the ER because of the pain associated with urination. It felt like someone had a razor blade on my vuvla when I went to the bathroom. The ER doc changes my antibiotic and gave me vaginal cream to use for 7 days. As of yesterday, I still have extreme pain when I would pee. I went to my family doctor and she checked my urine again and I still have a bad UTI and yeast infection.
thank you but it wasn't even my lymph node... I went to the ER and I had a huge abscess in my groin area thanks to a misdiagnosis from my campus clinic (yay!)...I had to get it drained and it hurted so bad and now I'm on a bunch of antibiotics because it was so huge....
I am really concerned as I engaged in deep tongue kissing with a man I'd just met and was on antibiotics so my tongue was raw from thrush. What is the risk of contracting HIV or Hepatitis with a raw tongue? I also noticed from about an hour afterwards that I had a bad taste in my mouth and my lips and tongue starting burning and still are burning a week later. What could be causing this? My doctor suspects Herpes and I'm on oral Acyclovir. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
the doctor prescribed acyclovir to her and claimed she had a bacterial infection. ive done the research on acyclovir and know its mainly used for the treatment of herpes but seeing as how she has been tested and the results were negative, i'm wondering if these symptoms i am experiencing are just a cause of a bacterial infection from uncleanliness from the constant sexual activities. i plan on seeing a doctor just in case but i am just a little worried about it.
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