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Reviewer: BB, 65-74 Female on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)
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When I first used it, it was so bad by the second day it turned me off of food. I kept getting indigestion from it. I used the whole seven days and I still have some shingles.
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Reviewer: 25-34 Female on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)
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I have shingles in my ear and was put on this medication along with a pain pill. It has made me tremendously sick. After 3 days of being sick, I was reading more on it, and people with glactose or glacose-galactose absorbtion problems should not use. I am lactose intolerant and it has severly effected me. I was never asked if I had these issues by the doctor or the pharmacist.
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Reviewer: 35-44 Male on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)
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36 year old with healthy immune system. Within 2 days of full dosage, the pain has great decreased, the rash has stopped spreading and appears to be drying up. No side effects that I can tell.
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Reviewer: 25-34 Female on Treatment for less than 1 month (Patient)
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The medication worked, but caused unmanagemable migraines shortly after ingesting each pill.
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Reviewer: kaylamay, 45-54 Female on Treatment for less than 1 month (Caregiver)
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My husband took this medicine and is now in the hospital with Pancreatitis, which I belive is directly related to taking this medicine. It may have helped with the Shingles, but the side effects are definitely not worth it.
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