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Does Prolonged Intake Of High Dose Medication Affect Health?

I have had herpes in my eye for 20 years...major flare ups over over past 18 months have resulted in me being on a maintenance dose of 2000 mg of acyclovir per day plus pred forte steriod drops every 3 hours. I am wondering if there are potential problems with maintaining these high dosages for the foreseable future? Numerous attempts to lower them have been unsuccessful (flare up of herpes).
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Thank you for following up .It is very smart to ask this query.You should pay attention on your liver. I suggest-
1.Give liver test.
2.Do ultrasound of liver, pancreas to rule out parenchymal reaction and medicamentation hepatitis.
3.For protection of liver you can use LIV 52 2capsules 2 times after 15 min before meal for 1 month.
4.Follow Pevzner's diet 5
5.For boosting your immunity drink Tulsi juice,take Chyawanprash,multivitamins-Revital,Zincovit 1 tablet once a day for 1 month
Recovery soon.
Once you take the complete treatment all your infection will be cured.
I will be happy to answer your further concern.
Thank you,
Dr.Sagar Gaurav Shrivastva
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Does Prolonged Intake Of High Dose Medication Affect Health?

Thank you for following up .It is very smart to ask this query.You should pay attention on your liver. I suggest- 1.Give liver test. 2.Do ultrasound of liver, pancreas to rule out parenchymal reaction and medicamentation hepatitis. 3.For protection of liver you can use LIV 52 2capsules 2 times after 15 min before meal for 1 month. 4.Follow Pevzner s diet 5 5.For boosting your immunity drink Tulsi juice,take Chyawanprash,multivitamins-Revital,Zincovit 1 tablet once a day for 1 month Recovery soon. Once you take the complete treatment all your infection will be cured. I will be happy to answer your further concern. Thank you, Dr.Sagar Gaurav Shrivastva