Acyclovir and headaches

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Avatar m tn Does Acyclovir make anyone else feel completely terrible? I get terrible headaches, dizzy, diarrhea and feel just awful. im not sure which is worse sometimes.
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 f tn I have genital herpes - confirmed by culture and blood test. After initial outbreak, I was prescribed Valtrex to use for a recurrence. Very bad headaches resulted. Was discontinued. With next occurrence, I asked for another anti-viral and was prescribed Acyclovir. This one caused headaches, backache, confusion and fatigue. Was stopped. I am now having a recurrence and didn't take anything. After about 7 days, I felt it was almost over, then wham....
1302779 tn?1287405029 I don't even read pm's unless they appear to be asking a question about deleting a post or how to use the forum. this is posted in the read before posting post on this forum. if you are having monthly recurrences you should be on daily suppressive therapy. it works much better than treating ob's as they occur. if your insurance doesn't make valtrex affordable, switch to acyclovir. typically headaches get better after you've been on suppressive therapy for a week or two.
Avatar n tn Dear all, My condom was broken 5 months ago with a CSW and at 3 months mark I had a oral HIV test and came back positive. I waited another 2 weeks and at 3 moths and 2 weeks I had a rapid blood test at a clinic and came back negative. Then I at 3 months and 3 weeks I got Chicken pox doctor gave me acyclovir anti viral. Then at 4 months I had another rapid blood test at the clinic and came back negative. But my fears were too much therefore I had another blood test at 4 months and 3 weeks.
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 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 What mad eyou start suppressive therapy? You might want to consider switching to acyclovir or famvir instead and see if you do better on either of those. You can even start off at a low, subtheraputic dose and gradually increase your dose over the course of 2-3 weeks and see if you tolerate that better too.
Avatar m tn like Herpes.... attacking my brain. I started on Acyclovir once a day and the headaches went away for awhile as did the back to back outbreaks but after a few months the outbreaks returned .. and now the headaches have come back so I have to increase my dosage. I am worried that these brain events have impaired my cognition.. I am almost 100% certain it has. My question...
Avatar f tn This is no way to live! I feel scared and awful. Should I just persevere with the headaches on the acyclovir? You mentioned in a previous post - expect to have side effects for awhile until your body gets used to the drug. Have you tried L-Lysine supplements for herpes? If so, do you feel it is worth buying?
Avatar f tn Thank you for getting back to me- i forgot to mention he has seen his Doctor and is on 4000 mg acyclovir a day-( since Wednesday today is Sunday and is to continue taking it for 10 days) the swelling has gotten worse- both eyes are swollen as is the bridge of his nose-he has a catlike or lion like appearance swollen and flat between the eyes- the area where the tear ducts are- is swollen his eyelashes get caught on the bridge of his nose-hsi eliptical folds are disappearing-he can see clearly-
Avatar f tn I started on the prevention course but stopped today as I started to feel horrible with body aches all over, terrible headaches and slight fever (flu like symptoms). I did get a flu shot. I have now decided to stop taking the med and advised my doc of my decision. I cannot walk around feeling so ill all the time. If I do get another outbreak I'll just live with it and wait for it to go away on it's own. Since I stopped taking this med I'm already feeling better.
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 f tn I feel like I am going to throw up, my body aches, and I had a fever the other night. Plus have really bad headaches and my body feels so weak that I can barely move and struggle just to move around. Is this normal with these pills? I have to take them for the rest of my pregnancy and 6 weeks after I have my baby. I hate feeling like this. It's starting to make me feel really depressed because I just don't have the energy to do anything.
Avatar f tn Three months into recovery I got very ill again, they did not do another lumbar puncture as said its too soon and I am still recovering, has several different rashes going on that they were not sure on what they were and my own doctor said its viral rashes after the meningitis again, (rashes have now gone) but now it is January 08, I am still not right, I know something is wrong with my brain, my concentration is still not back fully, I have mild headaches constantly and I cannot do too much or
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?