Question:
my doctor has me on the 2 tabs of the half gram valtrex per day. sometimes I forget to take one in the morning, is this bad??

should I double up both pills in the afternoon?? or can I just take both at once at one time per day and not have to spread them out??

I'm just wondering since the commercials say "once daily valtrex" and stuff like that, yet I'm taking two pills a day....sigh.

also, should I continue taking the pills after an outbreak is over?? doing this will prevent another outbreak right??

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my doctor has me on the 2 tabs of the half gram valtrex per day. sometimes I forget to take one in the morning, is this bad??

should I double up both pills in the afternoon?? or can I just take both at once at one time per day and not have to spread them out??

I'm just wondering since the commercials say "once daily valtrex" and stuff like that, yet I'm taking two pills a day....sigh.

also, should I continue taking the pills after an outbreak is over?? doing this will prevent another outbreak right?? This is not medical advice! :)
It's not the end of the world to forget a dose of Valtrex. It's not "bad" or anything - just not as effective as getting it in your system every 12 hours (during an outbreak...from what I have been told).
I'm on 500mg a day for suppressive therapy and then 1000mg a day (500mg every 12 hours) during an outbreak. After the outbreak it i back to the standard 500mg once daily.
You might want to have a talk with your doc if you're unsure how she/he wants you to be taking it. I know some people who do take a 1000 mg pill once daily and some who only start the pills when an outbreak happens. I'm not sure what plan your doc has for you, so you probably want to double check if you are unsure.
Hope this is of some help.

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so wait?? you can still have an outbreak even while taking valtrex?? I thought it stopped the replication of the virus itself??

if it prevents it from replicating....how can it start an outbreak??? I mean, it has to replicate a few billion times in order to form enough of a cluster to make a blister....

not to question this at all but it doesnt make sense to me.

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valtrex does not prevent the virus from replicating(this is why it doesnt make sense)

the only thing valtrex does is help "reduce the number of outbreaks, and reduce the risk of spreading it"

so yes, you can still have outbreaks while on it, and can still spread it doesnt stop anything 100% it just "helps"

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oh, I was under the impression that valtrex suppressed the viral rna's ability to replicate??

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So what does Valtrex actually do then? Im confused... I know it is supposed help reduce the risk of transmission and reduce the frequency of OBs but how?

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I was reading the wiki on it and it does about what I was thinking it does. it gets processed in our bodies into the active form which attacks the viral rna's replication process so yeah, it does actively go after the virus.

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Yes it stops number of outrbeaks and stops the risk of transmission, but it does this by stoping the replication of the virus just as svo stated above

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and see this is where I get confused...

I'm taking the medication twice daily now as it says on the bottle but even with that, I still got another outbreak??

I mean, how can I get an outbreak if the damn things cant replicate due to the medication??

unless the replication cycle is faster than the method the active chemical uses to bind to the transcriptase and terminate the chain replication?? I dunno, just irritating is the end result lol.:-x