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Reviewer: J13185, 25-34 Female on Treatment for 1 to 6 months (Patient)
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I took the generic form, Terbinafine. It worked very well. You take it for 3 months. I started seeing a change in a month, and now it's been four months since I've taken it. I had the infection in 3 toenails, now 2 of the toenails have completely healed and my big toe has just the tip that is still healing. My doctor says it could be a month till it's all gone. But it's not even noticeable. I didn
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Reviewer: sb, 45-54 Female on Treatment for 1 to 6 months (Patient)
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I took Lamisil for 6 weeks. At first, I suffered diarrhea and nausea but didn't connect it to the drug. Then, I started getting an intermittent tingling in my hand. After about 3 weeks, certain foods didn't taste good. Then finally, I couldn't taste food at all, my tongue tingled and I had a very nasty salty taste in my mouth. I also felt very irritable and edgy...just not well. I stopped tak
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Reviewer: billietabor@att.net, 55-64 Female on Treatment for 1 to 6 months (Patient)
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I took Terbinafine for 5 to 6 weeks and completely lost all sense of taste. I had severe stomach cramps, diarrhea and nausea constantly while taking it. At my doctor's advice, I stopped taking it so it didn't have time to help my nail fungus. It's been almost 3 months since I have been able to taste anything. This is very depressing with Thanksgiving and Christmas coming up. I have lost 10 p
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Reviewer: 45-54 Female on Treatment for 1 to 6 months (Patient)
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Toenails started looking better after just a few weeks. But started loosing hair after 4-5 weeks. Finished out the 90 days and still loosing hair. Hope it stops soon.
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Reviewer: FeeLilly, 25-34 Female on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)
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I took Lamisil tablets for about 2 weeks and then realised that I was feeling really depressed. Stopped taking them and took Sporonox as alternative which I felt fine with. " weeks of the Lamisil did clear up ann extremely stubborn area of athletes foot though.
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