Dr Derebery at House Ear Clinic LA

I agree I am sure it works well as I stated before, studies don't always get accurate results for various reasons.

but the study didn't say it was not proved it said it had little affect on vertigo

SIGNIFICANCE:

Famciclovir may suppress the fluctuation of hearing in Meniere's disease, but had a minimal effect on vertigo or dizziness symptoms in this study.

 

but my question and interest was what other trials are there involving famvir and MM? It would be good for us to have them to show doctors along with Dr Gaceks and The other abstracts. The more current studies that we can show doctors from different researchers the better the chances are for people to get them to prescribe an av for MM.

Some doctors are under the impression Dr Gacek is the only one believing MM has a viral cause.

 

One question.

If one is on val, and it is working well, and switch to fam for hearing benefits in future, will that make the val ineffective if he switches back to val?

 

Who writes the abstracts? The study doctors or someone quickly reviewing the literature?

 

the doctors I believe, they submit their abstract for publication, and after being reviewed it gets published. At least that's my understanding of it.

 

I wonder if there is a full article for that abstract and says the same.

 

In scientific journals, article abstracts are written by the article authors themselves; are a recorded part of the entire research report. Journal editors may ask for revisions or changes by the researhers before the article is permitted to be published (same for peer reviewers; who may also ask for revisions or changes before publication).

--John of Ohio

 

Thanks JOH

 

My point here is that in the case of this particular study, it seems that failure to prove efficacy has been interpretted as proved non effective. They are two different things entirely. Especially in a case like this where there were no cases of vetigo. True it was not more effective than placebo but when there were no cases .... She told me that she used famvir because according to the maker it was most effective at crossing the blood brain barrier of all the similar antivirals. I got outstanding response to acyclovir and famvir both. Perhaps it depends on the exact location anf persistnce of the infection.

 

I know June I was not doubting famvir effectiveness with MM, But we cant really use that abstract as it is written, to convince doctors to prescribe av's for MM. Like I said before the more current and known doctors besides Dr Gacek having abstracts that support antivirals for MM the easier it will be for people with MM to convince their doctors to prescribe it.

I have seen many studies saying famvir is as effective with treating herpes as acyclovir and val..but that's the only study I have found with famvir and MM. I hope she does more studies so people have more ammunition with their doctors, or if there are more studies I would love to see them.

 

What can be used is that dr derebery of the House Ear Clinic currently uses it and has used it for a long time. That will be meaningful to any ent. I dont think the studies, any of them at this point, 'prove' much of anything. They are sparse and some not placebo controlled etc. I think getting a dr to work with us will usually be accomplished by asking them to let us try a treatment that they know is generally well toleratd, non addicting, less destuctive than the more commonly prescribed things and which is used by some of the foremost doctors in the field. I think that is more honest than claiming any of the studies prove we know the origin of mm. Just sayin'

 

I think the reason famvir is used less than acyclovir is because it is more expensive, not because it is less effective.

 

I agree its the cost.

 

You might want to send a check to cover the cost of the study. I think that is why there arent more.