| Renal Impairment: No dose adjustment is necessary for patients with creatinine clearance above 30 mL/min. In patients with a creatinine clearance of less than 30 mL/min, it is recommended that the dose be reduced to 75 mg of TAMIFLU once daily for 5 days. The drug has not been studied in patients with renal failure (creatinine clearance below 10 mL/min); therefore, caution is advised when administering the drug to those patient populations (see CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY: PHARMACOKINETICS: Special Populations). |
| After seeing how sick my husband was last year with true influenza, I have no desire to go through that. I took amantadine for a few days (one of the precursors to Tamiflu that has been around awhile) and never got it. I dont know whether that did it or my flu shot but I was thankful. My husband also got the flu shot, proving it doesnt always work, depending on the persons immune system and/or the strain of influenza going around. |
| I would find it hard to believe a doctor would write you an rx for Tamiflu when you dont actually have the flu. The point is that you have flu like symptoms as determined by the doctor and he/she writes the rx. |
| I spent the centennial of flight sick as a dog with fever and obvious virus. Thursday I gradually got better and felt quite human by evening. I woke up this morning (Friday) feeling groggy but by mid morning was bounding with energy and ran around all day feeling almost euphoric. Very, very different from the usual "run over by a truck" feeling after being as sick as I was. Great stuff. Of course it probably was just a mild (relative to flu) virus and Tamiflu was overkill. |
| TAMIFLU is indicated for the treatment of uncomplicated acute illness due to influenza infection in s who have been symptomatic for no more than 2 days. This indication is based on studies of naturally occurring influenza in which the predominant infection was influenza A, and influenza challenge studies in which antiviral activity of TAMIFLU was supported for influenza A and B (see CLINICAL PHARMACOLOGY: CLINICAL STUDIES and PRECAUTIONS). |
