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No real outbreaks before this. I went to family doctor and he gave me 500 mg famciclovir. Sores scabed and went away after 1 week. Now the blisters are back in the same place. He has given me zovirax this time. Do outbreaks happen so close together? After 10 years without ant noticeable outbreaks now I have 2 in 2 months?
Thanks.
Im a little terrified and dont know why else my finger would feel weird. It seems long for a prodromal but perhaps the famciclovir kept things at bay. I took 500 mg 2x day for a week.
My questions: Do you think contractions was possible (anything possible!) I didnt have cuts on my hands.
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If I test my blood in 4 months and it is negative: will that mean I do not have herpes ? Does the body need an outbreak to develop antibodies.
Im a little terrified and dont know why else my finger would feel weird. It seems long for a prodromal but perhaps the famciclovir kept things at bay. I took 500 mg 2x day for a week.
My questions: Do you think contractions was possible (anything possible!) I didnt have cuts on my hands.
and
If I test my blood in 4 months and it is negative: will that mean I do not have herpes ? Does the body need an outbreak to develop antibodies.
I was wondering what is the difference between 0.5 mg and 1mg in regards to resistance. Will 0.5 mg of entecavir cause resistance in patients who never have been on any nucs and no polymerase resistance detected vs 1mg. My doctor wants me to take 1mg vs 0.5 mg but I have been been on any nucs and show no resistance to any nucs during genotype testing.
grace i retested herpes 1 and 2 type specific 1 month after takin 10 days 250 mg famciclovir
and the results were below the negative margin. this time the values wer (hsv1 30.4)(hsv2 36.1).
will the drug effect still be in my body or after a month the tests are accurate.
or shall i retest in coming time?
Just 1 week before sexual exposure, I had finished taking Famciclovir 250mg for HSV-1 outbreak. And it cured.
After 123 days(4 months) from last risky sexual exposure and 130 days from FAMCICLOVIR completion, I took HSV2(IGM and IGG) test and it turned out negative. I did not got any symptoms on genital area.
Can I consider this as confirmatory for HSV-2 in my body?
Should I need to go for more test? if so when to take the test? It is 4 months now completed from risk.
Friday my PA made a quick telephone diagnosis based on symptom report. I have been taking 500 mg tabs of Famvir, 2/day for about 1 wk, then infection came up Thursday, Itching around labia majoris, bumps/ knots in the skin the size of lentils but I could not see them. Can not see vesicles. They burn on urination and hurt (pressure) but there is no nerve pain. I had sharp pains in my groin on Thursday night which have subsided.
The chances of a postive test while taking famciclovir are very, very low. Famciclovir resistant HSV is rare, occurring in less than 1% of persons with HSV but, if you were culturing a resistant HSV lesion, the culture would be expected to be positve.
For taking a swab test, all one needs to do is firmly rub the lesion with a swab. The lesion does not need to open or fluid filled.
How were you diagnosed as having ocular herpes and whitlow?
Acyclovir (Zovirax) and famciclovir (Famvir) are similarly nontoxic. The official prescribing information for valacyclovir indicates a 1% chance of minor abnormalities of liver function in people taking valacyclovir, which was slightly higher than 0.5% for placebo. That difference was not statistically significant and there is no suggestion even for routine liver tests in people taking the drug.
Famvir and famciclovir are the same thing, as are Valtrex and Valacyclovir. One is the brand name, one is the generic.
I'd stay on the valacyclovir. The last thing you need right now is another outbreak, and stopping antivirals can trigger an ob.
I can't advise you on the amiltriptiline. If it's not working, maybe you shouldn't continue it, but PLEASE talk to your doctor before stopping it.
I am currently taking 250 mg of Famvir twice daily. I was previously on acyclovir 400 mg twice daily and my PCP changed to the famivir to see if it would work better. Before the acyclovir I was on 500 mg of Valtrex once daily but my insurance made me change to acyclovir. So far it has not. The Valtrex was working well and so was the acyclovir (I was having outbreaks about every other month) until about 2 months ago.
Oral acyclovir or the recently developed drugs, valacyclovir (Valtrex) or famciclovir (Famvir), lessen the symptoms and frequency of fever blister recurrences for some patients. These drugs prevent HSV from multiplying and are effective when taken in pill form prior to an outbreak of the virus. Topical antiviral creams containing acyclovir (Zovirax) or penciclovir (Denavir) may also help in limiting the extent or duration of lesions if applied promptly to affected areas.
[5][6][7] A review of human subjects treated for five days with Famciclovir 250 mg three times daily during their first herpes episode found that only 4.2 percent experienced a recurrence within six months after the first outbreak, a five-fold decrease compared to the 19 percent recurrence in acyclovir-treated patients.[8]
Despite these promising results, early Famciclovir treatment for herpes in this or similar dosage regimes has yet to find mainstream adoption.
acyclovir (Zovirax), famciclovir (Famvir), and valacyclovir (Valtrex)
The rabbit hole of "natural treatments" and remedies is never ending and fraught with peril, proceed cautiously.
4) If I additionally take famciclovir 250mg tid, does this significantly reduce my risk of communicating the virus through fellated ejaculation? 5) Does a hot soapy shower in fact temporarily (1-3 hrs.) reduce possible shedding? 6) Lastly, how do I test for shedding, or, viral load in my semen? I know that's a lot of questions to ask; please let me know how I can help any organization you like working with HSV or STI awareness or treatment. I have already donated to PP.
Then after some 2 weeks I developed some small blisters and doctor put me on Famciclovir 500 mg tablets (for herpes simplex) which cured me. No tests were done at this time. Later I went to a specialist STD doctor and he got IGM /IGG tests done which were negative (IGM - 0.08 and IGG - 0.13), This was after aboout 29 days of infection and 12 days since I started taking herpes medicine.
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