Hi Sasha
My daughter was prescribed artesunate at Breakspear for HHV-6 and HCMV, She also had an ongoing strep infection for which she was on injected penicillin. She did significantly improve for 3 months last year, after about 7 weeks on these. We then got diverted onto having a tonsillectomy as the ENT doc thought the tonsils could be the source of the strep infection.
As an adult she is now under Dr Bansal. He doesn't reckon Artesunate does much...There are articles about it being an antiviral at least in vitro. It's easy to take and didn't have noticeable side effects. Unfortunately we haven't been able to replicate the improvement and she has since been diagnosed with antibodies to certain receptors in the basal ganglia.
Hope this is useful
Hi MEMuM,
I'm sorry to trouble you. My name is Daniel Im from Ukraine and have HHV6 , EBV. I have now following symptoms - fatigue, swollen lymph nodes, pharyngitis, problems with sleeping and many others awful symptoms. I would like to try artemisinin or artesunate. Your and other posts about its significant action gives me a hope, that I can recover. Unfortunately Ukrainian doctors haven't experience with the artemisinin/artesunate. If it is possible, could you answer me on following questions:
1.May be your daughters doctors told you about the difference between artesunate and artemisisnin? Are both drugs effective, or artesunate is more effective than artemisinin? It is easier for me to buy artemisin than artesunate.
2. If it will be artemisinin , I want to buy this -
www.amazon.com/Nutricology-Super-Artemisinin-Vegicaps-60-Count/dp/B000KIK6C4 . Its ok?
3. Please let me know if this is the usual dosing guide that doctors recommend:
1) 200 mg of Artemisinin or 50 mg of Artesunate once a day before meals (approximately for 30 minutes before meal)
2) I have to take the dosage 5 days, then 2 days break
3) Did your doctor advise you that you could take artesunate/artemisinin safely for more than 4 weeks? I have read, that long-term artesunate use can be dangerous. Did the doctor prescribe long term use?
4) Did a doctor recommend cyclic dosing or did they say that one cycle would be enough? I mean first 1(3) months cycle, then break for example for two weeks, then again 1(3) month's etc. Or a doctor said one cycle is enough?
5) In case if you daughter had side-effects, what did her doctor suggest to do?
6) Did your daughters doctor tell you about any harmful interactions between art/arm and any other drugs or supplements?
7) How you as mother can estimate an effect after treatment? I hope results are stable?
8) Did the doctor prescribe valtrex after art/arm?
Thank you in advance for your answers and please excuse me for a lot of questions. Your answers are very important for me.
Best wishes Daniel