Yesterday I moved Famvir to the AM (9am) and took 750mg. 750mg lasts in blood serum for 13 hours, so that's plenty to get through the day, of course it's below the IC50, but I cannot sleep if I take any after 9am, and if I go below 500mg a dose it simply isn't active or effective enough.
Long story short I've stopped Famvir today because even though I slept better I got a very bad sore throat in the night and while I think the Famvir is actually working for me!! The side effects are just too much. Once blood serum hits peak at about 90 to 120 minutes, I become incredibly dizzy for about an hour or so and then just really tired and unable to do any work for about 3hours after that. This means I loose 4 working hours a day unable to concentrate or work due to feeling so tired and dizzy.
Of course the tiredness might go with time, but I think the dizziness is highly likely to be the drug hitting my CNS.
So now I am hoping to keep all of my gains on Famvir by moving back onto the joshua leisk protocol. I've added copper and zinc in 3mg/50mg ratio to try and increase my copper and zinc, as both are chelated by oat bran and I had no idea, which makes me think my copper and zinc have been going rather low pretty regularly for ages. Nune first pointed this out to me as a possible cause of my neutropenia. I would really LOVE it if that was the case, as the neutropenia could be caused by a virus or a bacterial infection and treating the viruses is going to be difficult without a new drug with less side effects (there is possibly one on the horizon) and bacteria prob requires bactrim or an equivalent broad spectrum antibiotic (there's another one starting with t that's much safer). Alternatives would be to take doxy as well and see how that went down.
But I don't want to really nuke my gut flora again so I am going to try and stay away from these ideas.
Famvir was much better tolerated and if I didn't work I'd absolutely take it for 6 months at 500mg twice a day.
My throats really sore today, no idea why, could be pollen but it does hurt a fair bit.
Long story short I've stopped Famvir today because even though I slept better I got a very bad sore throat in the night and while I think the Famvir is actually working for me!! The side effects are just too much. Once blood serum hits peak at about 90 to 120 minutes, I become incredibly dizzy for about an hour or so and then just really tired and unable to do any work for about 3hours after that. This means I loose 4 working hours a day unable to concentrate or work due to feeling so tired and dizzy.
Of course the tiredness might go with time, but I think the dizziness is highly likely to be the drug hitting my CNS.
So now I am hoping to keep all of my gains on Famvir by moving back onto the joshua leisk protocol. I've added copper and zinc in 3mg/50mg ratio to try and increase my copper and zinc, as both are chelated by oat bran and I had no idea, which makes me think my copper and zinc have been going rather low pretty regularly for ages. Nune first pointed this out to me as a possible cause of my neutropenia. I would really LOVE it if that was the case, as the neutropenia could be caused by a virus or a bacterial infection and treating the viruses is going to be difficult without a new drug with less side effects (there is possibly one on the horizon) and bacteria prob requires bactrim or an equivalent broad spectrum antibiotic (there's another one starting with t that's much safer). Alternatives would be to take doxy as well and see how that went down.
But I don't want to really nuke my gut flora again so I am going to try and stay away from these ideas.
Famvir was much better tolerated and if I didn't work I'd absolutely take it for 6 months at 500mg twice a day.
My throats really sore today, no idea why, could be pollen but it does hurt a fair bit.
