Acyclovir and diarrhea

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Avatar m tn These are the most common side effects from Acyclovir. I would suggest that you visit a pharmacist and see what alternative medication they can offer. It may be that they will prescribe you with something to combat your side effects.
Avatar n tn In early October of this year, I made a stupid decision and had unprotected sex with someone that I trusted. She didn't realize that she had herpes and neither did I. As a result, I now have HSV-2. I had an initial outbreak in October that included visible signs as well as some pretty swollen lymph nodes in the groin.
Avatar m tn Hi , I have been diagnosed for herpes HSV1 after having protected sex with sex worker, I am having night sweats yesterday and today with diarrhea and I am on medication for ACYCLOVIR, I still have one blister.
Avatar m tn Dear Doctor, I posted the following in the HIV Prevention Community and received the standard reply. I'm having a hard time completely believing that what I did was no risk at all so I thought I'd ask again and I'm hoping a more thorough explanation will help me: I'm a 40 year old male who was diagnosed with HSV 1 and HSV 2 about 15 years ago. I've had recurrent outbreaks of both, and they've become less and less frequent over time.
Avatar m tn 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.
Avatar m tn Doctor, since my risky exposure, I took 2g or azythromycin and a doe of 1g azythromycin for 3 days, followed by an IV injection of what I suspect to be tetracycline and some unknown antibiotics for 3 days, followed by a week of 100g of doxycyline. - On the fifth day since exposure, I have diarrhea along with gassy stomach that persisted till today (almost six weeks). - Then on my fifth week (around 2 weeks after I stopped the above antibiotics because I am taking acyclovir for 2 weeks).
Avatar f tn 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?
Avatar n tn 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.
Avatar n tn 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.
Avatar m tn The reason I asked if this is herpes is because I have been taking Acyclovir for more than 5 days now, and what is suspected to be small herpes bumps on my genital still have not seemed to burst. And I have never experienced any kind of pain from the infected site. I wonder if you can tell me if genital herpes outbreak will always hurt? And when would herpes bumps usually burst considering that I took Acyclovir daily?
Avatar n tn She said it started tingling 6 days before our encounter and she immediately took her Acyclovir and started using the prescription cream. She said it never "oozes" or gets that big and that the dry skin had already fallen off. All that was left was a little pink patch roughly the size of a tic tac. I am fairly certain that my penis did not touch that "pink patch". It was under the lip and not on it. They might be irrelevant. Can you catch HSV from other parts?
Avatar m tn I use acyclovir to and you must know that it doesnt take effect spontaneously especially the first time your using it. It helps relieve the pain though but might take some time to take effect. Just continue use it and youll see the sore will go away within 3-4 days instead of the usual 7-8 days they take to go away.
Avatar f tn s more about your genes as to how often you get recurrences than anything you are doing as far as diet, stress reduction and exercise. Eating healthy , exercising and keeping stress low are always a good idea but honestly they have little to do with how often you get recurrences :( no reason to stop eating chocolate!! It won't decrease your ob's and if you are anything like me, you eating chocolate is some days what keeps you from stabbing people....
Avatar m tn I am taking L-Lysene as a suppressor and only take the Acyclovir at the first sign of an outbreak. I was taking 1000mg Valtrex at onset and then 500mg twice a day and everything was clear in 3 days. To get the same effectiveness from Acyclovir how much should I be taking daily during out breaks? I have tried 600mg Acyc 3 times a day but it takes 7 days to clear up. Please advise.
Avatar n tn correct - he's negative and so are you so no reason to take acyclovir. You don't have any reason to think that you have genital herpes.
Avatar f tn I was told I had genital herpes 3 days ago. The outbreak started about 6 days ago. This is the first outbreak and it's extremely painful. The Dr gave me Acyclovir to take for 7 days. How long will it take for it to stop hurting? How long will it take for the Acyclovir to work?
Avatar f tn I have been getting outbreaks Quite regularly, I have tried MMS, Hydrogen peroxide and DMSO and oxygenated water, even silver have. Nothing worked and on top of that things were getting worse, more outbreaks. So if you try to respond and convince me to try the things (I mentioned here), please don't waste your time. It appears that all these things that I mentioned and tried, were just aggravating the virus. I have been on acyclovir for about 1 year now. So far no outbreak.
Avatar n tn developing weird lesions and bumps few days and weeks after starting acyclovir and it is now more than two months and lesions come and go everywhere in my body, although I have took acyclovir only for 10 days in October. Unlike you, I was never diagnosed with herpes; indeed i was just taking acyclovir hoping to inhibit a potential risk exposure that i was not sure about. My anti herpes antibodies came back all negative last week (both IgG and IgM).