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I'm waiting on an order of Valtrex at the moment (hopefully no customs issues arise).
I ordered it from ADC, so 2 months worth of pills at 3 g a day is the maximum I could do in one order. Assuming I don't have any adverse reaction to it upon starting, I was going to order another 2 months and just take it for a 4 month period to assess my response.
However, I was looking over the past discussions on here, and @Hip mentioned that Lerner would make people take it for up to 2 years before making a decision on whether or not it was effective for them..
Is that also what people are doing these days.? It seems like an extreme time and monetary investment for testing out one potential treatment. Is there a minimum duration that people have generally settled on for assessing response?
I'd be fine to take it for 2 years (or whatever) if I gradually improve while on it, but if it seems like it is doing nothing I can't see myself committing that much to it - especially as it would be so difficult to isolate it as a single variable over such a long duration.
I very much welcome insights/advice.
I ordered it from ADC, so 2 months worth of pills at 3 g a day is the maximum I could do in one order. Assuming I don't have any adverse reaction to it upon starting, I was going to order another 2 months and just take it for a 4 month period to assess my response.
However, I was looking over the past discussions on here, and @Hip mentioned that Lerner would make people take it for up to 2 years before making a decision on whether or not it was effective for them..
Is that also what people are doing these days.? It seems like an extreme time and monetary investment for testing out one potential treatment. Is there a minimum duration that people have generally settled on for assessing response?
I'd be fine to take it for 2 years (or whatever) if I gradually improve while on it, but if it seems like it is doing nothing I can't see myself committing that much to it - especially as it would be so difficult to isolate it as a single variable over such a long duration.
I very much welcome insights/advice.