crushing/dissolving valtrex pill

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Hey all. Dr. R prescribed valtrex for our daughter. She has a g-button and so

the first time we had it filled, he wrote it as a suspension. Well, turns out

our insurance won't cover it as a suspension, so we had to pay $130. That was

after we found a pharmacy that could even do it. Our usual pharmacy that has

compounded everything for us for the last 2 years couldn't even do it because

they " didn't have a recipe " . I also tried a walgreens that compounds, but they

wanted $218.

Anyway, we're going to try just getting the pills and crushing them ourselves.

Dr. R said he's had good luck then sprinkling the powder in applesauce, yogurt,

etc. This might work, but I'm also thinking we could just mix it with 15cc of

water and push it with a syringe. I've mixed meds that came as a powder, like

nexium, but we haven't crushed our own yet.

Has anyone here done this? Is valtrex soluble once you get the coating off?

Thanks!

Ft. Worth, TX