anti-virals valacyclovir

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Hello group,

Testing out my theory and a different generic valacyclovir is working just fine.

It is a blue coated tablet.

The pharmacist has committed to ordering this brand every month now for me (and

other patients that prefer this brand as well - I was not the first to complain

about the white tablet made by Roxane).

The brand I am on now happens to be Greenstone but really, I don[t think it

matters as long as it not one of the three companies that doesn't add the

suspension agents.

Thanks for all the help and conversation. This has been illuminating.

Once I stabilize, I would like to play with plain acyclovir and valine to see if

that translates to valacyclovir (there are many people who cannot afford

valacyclovir).

Being on the Roxane wasn't like not being on anything -it did work a little bit

which is why I took it for 2 months before deciding something was wrong. I did

have breakthrough sore throat, fatigue, aches and pains.

I guess if it had been at another time instead of right after my son left, I

might have figured it out sooner. I attributed my symptoms to just being in a

crashed state from the busy visit. Or, if it had worked a little bit less, I

would have had stronger symptoms to force me to think about what was going on.

It was a perfect storm but I have learned a lot.

By the way - my POTS was remarkably worse. I was near-fainting while lying in

bed, nystagmus, virtigo, lower blood pressure. My head felt like there was a

balloon in there being inflated daily.

Within 2 days of restarting, Valtrex, I felt like I could think, I was able to

be upright for longer in the day, remembering to pay bills, etc. Still

homebound and sort of bedbound but I feel more confident driving to the store

once a week.

I sometimes feel that POTS is the same illness as ME/CFIDS not a subset.

Marti

> > > Hi ,

> > > Do you find that the valacyclovir works as well as the brand name?

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> > > I recently was switched from the Brand name Valtrex to generic

> > > valacyclovir and it did not work for me. Seriously went downhill.

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> > > I am now back on Valtrex and within two days, I was so much better.

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> > > I thought regular generic acyclovir was better than generic

> > > valacyclovir. I was very disappointed.

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> > > I order my Valtrex for about $30 a month from India.

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> > > I am sure acyclovir is cheaper, even. I have tried adding Valine to

> > > my dose of acyclovir but haven't been on it long enough to see if it

> > > would be the same as Valtrex.

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