Viread tablets
Common Questions and Answers about Viread tablets
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Also, how do they decide if you should be on viread tablets or on the injection (peginterferon)? If your on viread do you have to take it for life? And if you take the peginterferon injection then after one year if hbv dna is undetected can you stop taking all medication?
Finally, is the coast of viread tabs close to a 1000dollars a month? Thats damn expensive.
There are no data to recommend use of VIREAD tablets 150, 200 or 250 mg or VIREAD oral powder in patients with renal impairment.
No dose adjustment of VIREAD tablets 300 mg is necessary for patients with mild renal impairment (creatinine clearance 50–80 mL/min). Routine monitoring of calculated creatinine clearance and serum phosphorus should be performed in patients with mild renal impairment [See Warnings and Precautions (5.3)].
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My doctor suggests me to take viread, fortunately cost of 30 tablets viread is around 40 euro and free for HIV patient on Indonesia.
Viread is new for my doctor because on last February he asked me to take sebivo.
My guess, many doctors decide to give drug to hep B patient as per approving from his institution/(after collective decision).
Sometime agree to say “you go to doctor it same you go to junk food”.
On the other hand, it is generally considered safe for mothers on Viread to breakfeed - concentration of Viread in breast milk is minimal and experiences from HIV mothers on Viread indicated no significant side effects on baby. So it may be an option to delay switching until breastfeeding is over.
Just my understanding.
Hopefully we can find doctors here that is mature enough in this situation. Entecavir (30 tablets) is equivalent of 2 months of generic tenofovir. And from studies, tenofovir is most potent drug for hbv. I have an upcoming appointment with a new doctor, she's a hepatologist, i'll ask her about this. I hope she knows about tenofovir disoproxil fumarate. I'll let you know what will happen.
I got a prescription from my GP for a sleeping tablets...I took those tablets and had no side-effects. Then few months later I stayed few nights working very late and again lost the sleeping pattern so I again asked the GP to give me the very same medicines and he gave me the same prescription. So that second time I went to the pharmacy and they asked me whether I would like to use a generic version which is chemically identical to the original prescription but almost twice cheaper.
There is a rare side effect of lactic acidosis on Viread that you may call and ask your doctor about, or others like stef will have better advice hopefully.
I'm almost done with my first month on Viread and no issues, but if I had what you did I'm thinking I would call the doctor just to be on the safe side. Hope you feel better soon.
a little higher than normal(lower than 80), the new normal alt level is 19 for women from 2009, 80 is by far abnormal
active DNA detected
why did you stop viread without any knowledge of your drug and illness, viread is safe for the baby, restart it immediately also to protect baby from hbv
there are other pregnant women taking viread here and since viread is also used on hiv the number of babies borne while taking viread is very very high and no problems at all
restart viread as soon as poss
just try intf+viread and see if hbsag lowers, viread mono will not work on hbsag but intf+viread has high percentages of response
Stefano and others, thanks for your help. As I posted before, 2 of my relatives are currently undergoing Hepsera monotherapy. I went to a new doctor for a second opinion and the Hepsera-prescribing current doctor for an explanation of treatment choice.
The first doctor agreed that Baraclude and Viread are to be dispensed per current AASLD guidelines but, once you've started with Hepsera, there is no need to change. He felt that the resisitance rate for Hepsera (vs.
No don't stop viread and wait for a couple of month till taf arrives completely in market and then switch to it as is renosafe. Stopping viread will flush ur 8 years of virus control and chances to lose hbsag in future may go in vane.
yhi i'm on combo viread + interferon i'm 27 yo and still eag+..
you should take viread+interferon like other members in the forum, chances to clear hbv once and for all are 24% at 48 weeks.
Renal impairment, including cases of acute renal failure and Fanconi syndrome (renal tubular injury with severe hypophosphatemia), has been reported with the use of VIREAD [See ADVERSE REACTIONS].
It is recommended that creatinine clearance be calculated in all patients prior to initiating therapy and as clinically appropriate during therapy with VIREAD. Routine monitoring of calculated creatinine clearance and serum phosphorus should be performed in patients at risk for renal impairment.
I also started on Viread in March 2011. Before taking Viread i had absolutely no symptoms. Upon resuming viread i started experiencing the same symptoms as you have. I checked out the viread site to see if these symptoms were normal and from what i read they seemed to be quite usual and covered in the broad range of possible symptoms experienced by patients while taking viread.
However i would like to hear any contrary opinions if anyone has any.
1. Should I take VIREAD immediately as suggested by my primary care doctor? And why?
2. Will VIREAD change my life style, i.e. make me exercise less, no more hiking / skiing trip?
3. Am I correct that I will take VIREAD for life?
4. When will VIREAD develop resistance? Any known data / study on this?
5. What is the life expectancy can I expect?
Thank you again for sharing your information.
God Bless.
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I started feeling sick, tire, trouble sleeping, mild stomach pain. My doctor put me on viread 1/15 and experience severe acid reflux, heartburn, nausea, dizziness, back pain and cant eat or sleep. on 1/18 i stop viread and called doctor and agreed for me to be off viread for a few days to see if the symptom i experienced are side effects from viread. I'm not feeling any better and decided to go see my primary doctor.
no you must keep viread until you develop a good quantity of hbsab, some researchers stopped viread after 6-12 months of hbsag negative but unless hbsab is detactable you may relapse to hbsag reactive
check your hbsab
I am a healthy carrier of HBV and have been taking viread for more than 1 year. The latest blood test showed that HBV DNA was below the detection limit. I came to malaysia to work recently and after I came here, I tried to get viread and seems i could not find it anywhere. My doctor recommand that I can take Baraclude, but I am a little worried. I saw in the old post, that people take both, but for my case, by just pure change from one to another, will there be any side effect?
is viread a cure for liver transplant? what happens after he takes the viread?
I am Hep B e negative with a viral load of 77000 IU. My doctor prescribed me Viread 4 days before and now It was my 4rth day on Viread.
Till my third tablet I did not noticed any side effect. Today i felt some pain in my joints and muscles. Some burning in my hand and feet palms.
Is this somthing I should be very concerned or all this ok or just causal side effects which they will eirther be adopted by me or will go away?
Please share your expereince about viread?
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