Re: Insurance won't cover Valtrex, natural antivirals?

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Bummer. If you find you need it, contact me. I'll see if I can help you find it cheaper. You shouldn't need to take out a loan.

Cheryl ~http://www.gryffins-tail.blogspot.com~~@Gryffins_Tail~

The insurance sent a letter saying that will only cover antiviral therapy for immunosuppressed patients or with HIV. We've done a basic immune panel with an allergist and nothing showed up, perhaps b/c he was on valtrex for 6 months at that point.

Anyway, I think they are probably going to blacklist us now. My son has always been stimmy and it comes and goes in waves even when on Valtrex. He has really good days and really bad ones even when we haven't added anything new. We have never been able to pinpoint it, and I suspect it is food related (we are on GFCFSF but I think he may have other sensitivities even though his food allergy test came back ok.)

The things we saw Valtrex really help with was strengthening the immune system, getting rid off small red dots around the mouth, and more physical awareness of his environment. But he is still very much autistic and it doesn't seem to have made a significant improvement in that area after 9 months. He still stims and repeats sentences all the time and says things out of context and makes inappropriate noises.

We started AC chelation and want to see where that will take us.

But I guess right now we have to watch him closely to see if he regresses without the Valtrex or doesn't respond to natural antivirals. If that's the case we'll have to get back on it and take out a loan We'll keep you updated if we succeed!

Thanks again!

Shiri

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> > Hi all,

> > We've been on Valtrex/diflucan or Nizoral for the past 9 months. 2 days ago our new insurance began refusing to cover Valtrex. At $5 a pill 3x a day we cannot afford to pay out of pocket for it since we have been paying out of pocket for so many other interventions. So we decided to see how he does off of it. So far a little more stimmy but no regressions yet.

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> > We would like to try a natural antiviral instead and wanted to know what people have had success with. We are looking into Virastop, OLE or Lysine. My son was the kind of kid who was sick all the time last year and since starting Valtrex his immune system has really gotten much stronger and now he rarely gets sick and fights off viruses much faster. Which natural antivirals can help keep his immune system strong? We are already on Vitamin C, Zinc and Colostrum. Also, can I go off rx antifungals and switch to natural antifungals as well?

> >

> > Thanks so much for your input!

> >

> > Shiri

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Have you looked at what it would cost to buy it in cash from Canada? Just a thought....To: mb12 valtrex Sent: Thu, February 3, 2011 1:22:38 PMSubject: Re: Insurance won't cover Valtrex, natural antivirals?

The insurance sent a letter saying that will only cover antiviral therapy for immunosuppressed patients or with HIV. We've done a basic immune panel with an allergist and nothing showed up, perhaps b/c he was on valtrex for 6 months at that point.

Anyway, I think they are probably going to blacklist us now. My son has always been stimmy and it comes and goes in waves even when on Valtrex. He has really good days and really bad ones even when we haven't added anything new. We have never been able to pinpoint it, and I suspect it is food related (we are on GFCFSF but I think he may have other sensitivities even though his food allergy test came back ok.)

The things we saw Valtrex really help with was strengthening the immune system, getting rid off small red dots around the mouth, and more physical awareness of his environment. But he is still very much autistic and it doesn't seem to have made a significant improvement in that area after 9 months. He still stims and repeats sentences all the time and says things out of context and makes inappropriate noises.

We started AC chelation and want to see where that will take us.

But I guess right now we have to watch him closely to see if he regresses without the Valtrex or doesn't respond to natural antivirals. If that's the case we'll have to get back on it and take out a loan We'll keep you updated if we succeed!

Thanks again!

Shiri

>

> > Hi all,

> > We've been on Valtrex/diflucan or Nizoral for the past 9 months. 2 days ago our new insurance began refusing to cover Valtrex. At $5 a pill 3x a day we cannot afford to pay out of pocket for it since we have been paying out of pocket for so many other interventions. So we decided to see how he does off of it. So far a little more stimmy but no regressions yet.

> >

> > We would like to try a natural antiviral instead and wanted to know what people have had success with. We are looking into Virastop, OLE or Lysine. My son was the kind of kid who was sick all the time last year and since starting Valtrex his immune system has really gotten much stronger and now he rarely gets sick and fights off viruses much faster. Which natural antivirals can help keep his immune system strong? We are already on Vitamin C, Zinc and Colostrum. Also, can I go off rx antifungals and switch to natural antifungals as well?

> >

> > Thanks so much for your input!

> >

> > Shiri

> >

> >

>

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LDN is not an anitiviral but it is an immunemodulator. It is very inexpensive but does require a script. The transdermal cream makes it easy to apply to our kids. It helps to boot/regulate the immune system(LDN is low dose naltrexone).

Subject: Insurance won't cover Valtrex, natural antivirals?To: mb12 valtrex Date: Thursday, February 3, 2011, 11:29 AM

Hi all, We've been on Valtrex/diflucan or Nizoral for the past 9 months. 2 days ago our new insurance began refusing to cover Valtrex. At $5 a pill 3x a day we cannot afford to pay out of pocket for it since we have been paying out of pocket for so many other interventions. So we decided to see how he does off of it. So far a little more stimmy but no regressions yet.We would like to try a natural antiviral instead and wanted to know what people have had success with. We are looking into Virastop, OLE or Lysine. My son was the kind of kid who was sick all the time last year and since starting Valtrex his immune system has really gotten much stronger and now he rarely gets sick and fights off viruses much faster. Which natural antivirals can help keep his immune system strong? We are already on Vitamin C, Zinc and Colostrum. Also, can I go off rx antifungals and switch to natural antifungals as well?Thanks so much for your input!

Shiri