Re: Pulsing the anti-viral?

February 6, 2011

I remember reading in the newspaper a good many years ago, of a man who

defeated AIDS back when then just started treating it. He says he

pulsed the antivirals. I think it was 6 weeks on and 6 weeks off for a

couple of years. It was pretty amazing, since at the time everyone was

dying of AIDS. I think we can theorize this to death, but I would think

the answer would be learned by doing a bunch of Googling to see who got

results with pulsing versus not.

Love and prayers,

Heidi N

I was talking to our DAN the other day about using anti-virals and he

explained that there are different schools of thought about anti-viral

usage.

He initially suggested pulsing it (5 days on and then take a break and

then go another 5 days). What he said this does is that it doesn't allow

for natural selection to occur inside the body and leave the

super-resistant virus to multiply. He said that by pulsing it, you leave

some of the weaker bugs to breed with the stronger bugs and it weakens

the " gene pool " of the virus in the long-run.

Then, another philosophy I've heard people talk about on here is going

months straight until it's all gone.

Our DAN admits that there is no one be-all-end-all answer to this. That

no one is really certain about viruses.

This discussion has probably gone on before but I wanted to start it

again. What's your take on this? I just want to hear people's different

thoughts about this. What are people's experiences with one way or the

other of using an anti-viral like valtrex?

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