User Reviews for famciclovir oral

My daughter was given this medication at urgent care because she got sun poisoning on her lips and blistered up. After a few days of taking it, she began to have panic attacks and was in a total state of confusion. Luckliy she was not taking the pills every 8 hours. Instead she was taking it only two times a day at most. I came here and read the side effects and instantly took her off the meds. I would never think an antibiotic would have such horrible side effects.

I woke up in the mid of the night with intense soreness in my upper left gum area and my upper left lip was extreme sensitive even a gentle breeze could send tingling and burning sensation. At first I thought this might be casued by my hay fever. On the third day I went to the ER for extreme pain and a visible track of redness from my upper lip towards to the side of the nose and then to my cheek and then to my temple. I found out I had shingles on my facial nerves. I was given this antiviral medication and pills for pain. I found taking the antiviral did help to stop the spread, minimized the blisters sizes and numbers. It also helped in controlling the pain and cut down the time of infection. After completing the 7 days course, my scabs were all heal up well without scarring. In controlling the pain, ice pack had worked wonder for me, much better than the strong pain medication that was given to me. Drawing from my own experience seeing the doctor on the first sign of shingles and take the antiviral medication did cut short the time of infection and control the pain. Read More Read Less

I have had genital herpes for 30 years. This product works for me. (2 outbreaks in 11/2years instead of monthly)I am finding I must be vigilant with timing(I am on a 12 hour cycle, 2X per day)I do find I get headaches

Not ever having had a shingles outbreak before, I didn't know how long it would take the drug to work. I thought 5 days was much too long... guess that was due to the overall misery of the disease. Sudden sharp (and deep) pain, severe stinging, some burning, and lots of itching. I was crying for relief. Thankfully, the doctor also put me on Prednisone and Vicodin. These definitely helped. To prevent a recurrence, I'm getting the Zostavax shot.

I TOOK THIS DRUG FOR A FEW DAYS BUT HAD TO STOP BECAUSE IT CAUSED A RAPID HEART BEAT, I ALSO FELT WEAK.

I had been taking Valtrex for years and found it very effective if taken immediately when I felt the "tingle sensation" in my lip. However, I changed doctors and he prescribed Famciclovir. Although skeptical, I was very pleased with the results. My lesions had already started to form and did crack open so I used the topical Abreva as well. Usually once they form and crack it's automatically ten days before lesions are gone again. I could tell a huge difference in 48 hours after taking Famciclovir. The burning and pain disappeared and you could really see the lesions healing more quickly. The full blown lesions were gone in five days.Read More Read Less

Once again, I take this for my Shingles. It seems to be working better in conjunction with the hydroxyzine and prednisone. I havent had to take any Lortab at this point. I think I caught the onset before he had a chance to take over. Maybe this will be my magic cocktail. For those of you that have suffered through out the years maybe this cocktail will help you out also. But you have to catch it before the physical symptoms flair up.

When I first used it, it was so bad by the second day it turned me off of food. I kept getting indigestion from it. I used the whole seven days and I still have some shingles.

I have shingles in my ear and was put on this medication along with a pain pill. It has made me tremendously sick. After 3 days of being sick, I was reading more on it, and people with glactose or glacose-galactose absorbtion problems should not use. I am lactose intolerant and it has severly effected me. I was never asked if I had these issues by the doctor or the pharmacist.

i take 3 pills at the first sign of an outbreak and the cold sore never really develops. i usually end up with a tiny scab.it is totally healed within a few days. i have been suffering from cold sores for decades. this is thr first real treatment that actually works.

Took 3 pills immediately with the onset symptoms of cold sore. Halted outbreak and pain. Cold sore never erupted and healing began.

This drug works but it is not covered by BC/BS on their Medicare Suppliment. Its very expensive for those on fixed incomes!

36 year old with healthy immune system. Within 2 days of full dosage, the pain has great decreased, the rash has stopped spreading and appears to be drying up. No side effects that I can tell.

I am being treated for a form of leukemia which lowers my white cell count. That in turn allowed a mild form of herpes virus to be active so my oncologist precribed Famciclovir. The only problem is that it is VERY EXPENSIVE. $165 for one week supply.

Did not work at all to treat or help speed up the healing process.

The medication worked, but caused unmanagemable migraines shortly after ingesting each pill.

Condition returned within 2 months, but effective for short term.

Famvir seems to clear up my outbreaks quicker than Valtrex.