Tuesday, February 14, 2012

The New Famvir Regimen

Is the new double dose of Famvir the best way to go instead of Valtrex? How should it be taken? Last year, the FDA approved a new regimen for treatment of genital herpes outbreaks in people with healthy immune systems that consists of 1000 mg of Famvir twice daily for one day at the first sign o...
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Anonymous
11/13/08 6:28pm

Is this safe?? And how does it do with Herpes symptoms and is there any side effects to taking such a large amount??

9/ 8/10 1:20am

This protocol doesn't sound effective.  I would expect that the blood plasma concentration of medicine would need to remain high beyond a single day.  HSV is dynamic, so I think any treatment should also be dynamic.

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