ACYCLOVIR Reviews (ACYCLOVIR)Average Rating: 2.9 (212 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare ACYCLOVIR with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR ACYCLOVIR | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | Oral hsv-1 | Headaches. A significant increase in acne that subsides after stopping the medication. | Hate the acne outbreaks but it's better than having a blister on my lip. | F | 37 | 10 days 200 5X day | 6/4/2017 | 5 | Chicken pox | Sleepy n headache | Blisters dried overnight n no itching at all...worked very well | F | 40 | 5 days 4×5 days | 4/2/2017 | 5 | HSV 2 | Constipation and headaches | It worked within 4 days of me being diagnosed with HSV 2. | F | 25 | 10 days 800mg | 2/8/2015 | 5 | Genital hsv-1 | No noticeable side effects | I was taking Valtrex for nearly six months at different dosages and it barely taking away any of my symptoms so finally I decided to go with a different medications and even through the first few days of taking this I can already tell that it is working much better than any other treatments I was recieving. With my constant unending breakouts and symptoms I thought that I would have to deal with this bull for the rest of my life, but it seems that things are becoming better. Seriously good luck and if you're having any trouble have no fear in speaking to your doctor about it. I know I did, but that's their job and if they don't like it dump them and find a new one. Good luck. | F | 18 | 4 days 3 daily | 6/1/2015 | 5 | shingles on face | Headaches dire, loss of appetite. V tired and uninterested. Light head. | All worth it. Shingles can blind or deafen permanently. Halted it so far. | F | 50 | 3 days 800mg | 2/14/2015 | 5 | shingles | Insomnia,diarrhea,headaches,slight aggression | This was my first shingles outbreak I would pair thus with some type of sedative if you have insomnia like me | F | 23 | 10 days 400 | 2/22/2015 | 5 | Shingles | Improvement in 3 days | F | 54 | 7 days 1 gr 3xday | 12/4/2015 | 5 | Shingles | Had to take 5 times a day and made me very tried. As soon as I was ok took it and became very tired again.so I took every 4 and half hours, the last 30 mins before having to take again felt fine,the n after taking so tired. Helped my shingles just didn't like sleeping all the time. | F | 61 | 7 days 800Mg, | 10/18/2015 | 5 | Shingles | I have felt very tired the entire time taking the drug. No other side effects other than being unproductive because of being so tired. | Cleared my shingles up in about 4 days. Very helpful | F | 27 | 7 days 5X day | 11/14/2015 | 5 | hsv 2 | severe GERD with tablets vs. capsules; generic for both- Severe sun sensitivity and outbreak of large red bumps on skin- initially thought it made me tired but I think that was the herpes because it did go away with ongoing treatment | works great at 400 twice a day for genital herpes (female)- Valtrex analogous dosing didn't work at all- Struggling with horrible GERD now that pharmacy switched from capsules to tablets despite using double doses of Aciphex (ppi) | F | 52 | 2 years 400 mg 2X day | 1/15/2016 | 5 | shingles | It just made me very sleepy to the point where I was just a zombie | As soon as I started taking them I noticed my shingle blisters getting bigger. Hopefully this will clear them | F | 21 | 7 days 800G 5X a | 3/23/2016 | 5 | Eczema Herpeticum | I get stomach aches occasionally from it. Possibly from not drinking enough water. | Without this drug my face would be covered in blisters. I have been taking this medication with flare ups for 10 years. They happen frequently so luckily this medication is pretty inexpensive even without insurance. It was 4 or 5 dollars for a bottle at the Walmart pharmacy. | F | 28 | 5 days 400mg 3X day | 4/1/2016 | 5 | Shingles | Took within three hours of outbreak on chest and back. Reduced the pain at once , no itching or seeping from rash. Was very tired could have been caused by shingles rather than tablet. Did have some shooting pains in arm and head. | This drug has made the outbreak a lot more bearable. | F | 63 | 7 days 800 | 5/18/2016 | 5 | HSV 2 | Initial headaches, but none now. | I have been using it to prevent outbreaks for 3 years. It just works. Tried Valtrex and it made me dizzy, and it costs a lot more. So I am sticking with generic Acyclovir. It is a pain to have to remember to take it twice a day, but it is so worth it. | F | 52 | 3 years | 11/23/2009 | 5 | genital herpes | Worked great in suppressing breakouts. Took for a long period of time everyday. I started noticing a very significant amount of hair loss. I had very long hair. Hair loss ( alopecia ) is a side effect. Wish I had found out about that side effect before I almost went bald. Doc has now put me on Famvir. Don't know much about it, but seems to work good and hair loss is not a side effect. | F | 25 | 7 years | 8/10/2009 | 5 | herpes | sluggishness, mild indigestion, loss of appetite, looser stools, occasional gas with oily discharge, general increase in flatulence | Helped clear the rash after an initial two days of "why is it getting worse?" and then everything being gone within a week. The side-effects annoying but they beat having nasty sores for more than a few days that make sitting down very uncomfortable. Eating something with the pills do help as does keeping well-hydrated. I'm hoping I don't get anymore outbreaks but I know if I get another one, there's some good stuff to relieve the worst of it. First time I took it was 10 days, subsequent times have been 5 days by the way. | F | 29 | 10 days | 12/22/2008 | 5 | genital herpes two | funky stinky urine smell and gas. stupid the tingling I feel at the site of outbreak. | F | 27 | 1 days | 1/24/2014 | 5 | Oral and Genital herpes | Got this drug from my primary care Dr. in capsule form and was fine. Then I went to Planned Parent Hood and got it in tablet form same dosage. I had the most horrible head pressure and went to the hospital twice. Now I'm having tremors, head pressure, tingling all over my body, facial spams. I'm so upset. I'm convinced that the lab that made the tablets mixed something wrong. I had no effect with the same drug in capsule form. This seems strange. Please be careful guys. I'd take the herpes symptoms over these neurological ones any day. This is horrible! | F | 35 | 4 weeks 400 2X day | 5/20/2014 | 5 | SHINGLES*(on back and chest) | The drug made me feel tired, and I was constantly thirsty--but my doctor warned me of these likely side effects, so I expected to be tired and drank lots of fluids/water. I noticed that my urine was dark yellow every time I peed, no matter how much water/fluids I drank--that was mildly disquieting, as I worried about kidney function, but it returned to normal the day I stopped taking the drug, so it's temporary kidney stress. I would not use the drug if I had kidney disease, and many elderly people have that without knowing it. *(perhaps that's a really good reason for elderly people or people with kidney disease to get the new live shingles vaccine--to prevent needing to use a kidney-stressing drug)** | This drug(generic ACYCLOVIR) is MUCH cheaper than many other anti-virals, and it really worked to reverse the wicked shingles on my back and chest----and it did so in 5 days! I have never had oral or genital herpes, and this was my first episode of shingles, but from what I've read and been told, my shingles episode was really minor compared to ones not treated with Acyclovir. i heard horror stories about shingles lasting 6 months in some people! OUCH-UGLY-NO THANKS! I have very minor pain in the area where the shingles lesions have healed, but i don't really expect this to bother me even if it takes a while to disappear. I was told that untreated shingles often lead to horrible post-herpetic pain and that the drug is mostly used to prevent that--thus, the reversal of the painful and ugly blisters is just a superficial side-benefit and not the main goal. I would definititely recommend this drug to anyone with shingles, unless they have kidney disease. I am young and healthy so could use it in the strongest oral(non-IV) dose as needed. I was warned that even with use of the drug, I remained "highly contagious for Chickenpox" to any baby or other non-immune person, so I didn't let it's effectiveness allow me to forget that. I had to be careful who I was in close proximity to until the lesions were healed. I can see the effectiveness of the drug being a negative--persons might be so happy with the results that they accidentally forget they have a contagious di | F | 47 | 5 days 800 mg 4X day | 6/26/2010 | 5 | herpes simplex 2 | none yet | I like this drug. and my bf does also. he never would take valtrex because he seen how it made me feel. i wish i would have known about it before i spent 230.00 on valtrex. it works better anyway i'm not tired and we don't have outbreaks anymore. | F | 23 | 1 months 400 mg 2X day | 7/16/2010 |