Lamasil

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Just been prescribed Lamasil tablets 250mg for fungal nail infection...

Anyone any information that I'd find useful.

Ta.

mathepac

I think you might mean "lamisil" or "Terbinafine hydrochloride"

Download the official PIL (product information leaflet) from the site - http://www.medicines.ie/searchresults.aspx?term=lamisil&searchtype=AdvancedSearch

OUTDOORLASS

Hi,
my OH used them for a few months. He had v bad fungal infection on his feet and his hands....
he had no side effects that I can think of.....

locum-motion

Talk to your pharmacist.

Do not ask for advice from random Internet idiots.

testicle

locum-motion wrote: »

Talk to your pharmacist.

Do not ask for advice from random Internet idiots.

Maybe some of the idiots are pharmacists...

not yet

locum-motion wrote: »

Talk to your pharmacist.

Do not ask for advice from random Internet idiots.

Unless the Pharmacist has actually used the product I'd prefer some details from someone who has,but thanks all the same.

not yet

mathepac wrote: »

I think you might mean "lamisil" or "Terbinafine hydrochloride"

Download the official PIL (product information leaflet) from the site - http://www.medicines.ie/searchresults.aspx?term=lamisil&searchtype=AdvancedSearch

Not being funny, but I could download all day and still not get first hand info on how the people feel about it.

sam34

locum-motion, 3 posts deleted. please don't dish out personal abuse or post in an unnecessarily sarcastic manner.

mathepac

not yet wrote: »

Not being funny, but I could download all day and still not get first hand info on how the people feel about it.

With all due respect, before you can ask for feed-back on a prescription drug, the first thing you need to get right is either its commercial name or the name of the "active ingredient".

After my post now you have the basics in place. If you read the PIL you will know the what common / rare side-effects to look out for.

As to how people who have used it feel about it, as with any drug, this may vary widely.

locum-motion

sam34 wrote: »

locum-motion, 3 posts deleted. please don't dish out personal abuse or post in an unnecessarily sarcastic manner.

PM sent.

locum-motion

I answered this already, but my answer was deemed to be too sarcastic and was removed by the mods. So I'll try to answer in a way that doesn't get me in trouble.

This medication has very serious potential side effects, and specific measures have to be taken to ensure that you don't have problems if you're on it long term.

I wasn't being facetious when I said talk to your pharmacist. Your pharmacist and your doctor are the persons whose job it is to take care of you.

Random persons on the net - about whom you know nothing - are not the right persons to give you advice.

Asking about such matters online is something that I would consider to be a very stupid thing, but I'm aware that not all people think of that at first. In other words, asking does not necessarily make the person stupid. Edit: the mods objected to the next sentence I put here, so I have removed it.

locum-motion

testicle wrote: »

Maybe some of the idiots are pharmacists...

Some of those that use this forum are idiots.

Some of them - including me* - are pharmacists.

Whether or not some of the idiots and some of the pharmacists are the same people, I'm not in a position to say.


* : You only have my word for that.
However, the OP either recently has walked or soon will walk into a pharmacy with his prescription. Given the certificates on the wall there, the OP can be sure of the bona fides of the person he finds there. THAT is the appropriate place to get advice, not here.

locum-motion

not yet wrote: »

Unless the Pharmacist has actually used the product I'd prefer some details from someone who has,but thanks all the same.

I had a patient with a mental age of about 5 who used this medication.
Choose any one of the approx 2,500 pharmacists in the country, each of whom has 5 years of education and training, and the vast majority of whom will not have used this medication.

Who do you think is likely to give you better advice?

tbh

locum-motion wrote: »

. However, if a person were to persist despite having been told the above, then I would consider that to be very stupid behaviour.

"The things you consider to be stupid behaviour" has neither relevance nor value in this thread or in this forum. You're as welcome as anyone else to comment on the topics raised in this forum, and your experience as a pharmacist indeed does add value. However recent posts of yours would suggest that you possibly think this value gives you license to attack posters and the moderation of this forum.

Let me be as clear as I possibly can be: it doesn't. This is the last time you'll be told this: if you continue to post in a way that is detrimental to this forum and it's posters, then your ability to post here will be removed.

If you have a problem with that, I suggest you raise it with the admins, I'm not getting into a pm discussion about this.

locum-motion

tbh wrote: »

...If you have a problem with that, I suggest you raise it with the admins, I'm not getting into a pm discussion about this.

Perhaps then you might be good enough to let me know precisely who are the right people to contact (or where is the correct forum) to take this further.

not yet

<SNIP>

Funny enough the GP never gave me any advice on the drug nor did the pharmacist, I do admit at the time I never asked. But when I got home and goggled the drug and side effects I decided to use this forum to see what peoples experiences had been with the drug...........Shoot me if that's not the thing to do.

sam34

not yet, post edited. leave out the personal abuse please.

mathepac

not yet wrote: »

... But when I got home and goggled the drug and side effects ...Shoot me if that's not the thing to do.

It just strikes me as odd that you'd bypassed the three most reliable sources of information available to you, the first two most valuable as they know you and your medical history better than some randomer on an anonymous internet website -

• Your doctor
• Your phamacist
• The PIL that should be contained in the packaging of your drug - the same PIL I directed you to. These are written in plain non-tech language as they are meant for lay-people, not medics or pharmacists

I am not having a go or criticising, just relaying what I find strange about your post and many others out there in internet-land.

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mathepac wrote: »

It just strikes me as odd that you'd bypassed the three most reliable sources of information available to you, the first two most valuable as they know you and your medical history better than some randomer on an anonymous internet website -

• Your doctor
• Your phamacist
• The PIL that should be contained in the packaging of your drug - the same PIL I directed you to. These are written in plain non-tech language as they are meant for lay-people, not medics or pharmacists

I am not having a go or criticising, just relaying what I find strange about your post and many others out there in internet-land.

So tell me then does the PIL give first hand accounts of how the drug affected them, no it does not, so once again the reason I posted looking for information was to get the very same first hand accounts I am talking about.

The fact that firstly the doctor and then the Pharmacist did not give me any information whatsoever about the drug speaks more about them then It does me not asking.

locum-motion

not yet wrote: »

So tell me then does the PIL give first hand accounts of how the drug affected them, no it does not, so once again the reason I posted looking for information was to get the very same first hand accounts I am talking about.

The point I was trying to get across to you was that such personal accounts are useless.

not yet wrote: »

The fact that firstly the doctor and then the Pharmacist did not give me any information whatsoever about the drug speaks more about them then It does me not asking.

Do you know what, I'd be inclined to agree with you there!
ps. (Elaboration about what I said above) There can be a tendency to assume that the doctor has already spoken to you about the issues. However (and I'm saying this with only the limited information you've supplied) it would be my opinion that the pharmacist should have said to you something like "Did the doctor already speak to you about this medicine?"

My advice to you is this: return to your pharmacy. Say to them "I understand that there can be potential side effects with long term use of this medicine. Can you advise me about them?" The advice you then get will be better than any "personal experience" info you might get here.
Any more specific advice is forbidden here, for the reasons that I outlined in previous posts (both deleted and undeleted!)

Desolation Of Smug

Soak yer feet in a strong solution of warm water and mouthwash. Any old mouthwash will do. Job done. No lamasil. One shot and it's sorted. Years on wet building sites in wet boots makes you an expert on this stuff.