Symptoms may include: skin rash, fever, swollen glands, flu-like symptoms, muscle aches, severe weakness, unusual bruising, or yellowing of your skin or eyes. This reaction may occur several weeks after you began using terbinafine. Some people taking terbinafine have developed severe liver damage leading to liver transplant or death. It is not clear whether terbinafine actually caused the liver damage in these patients. In most cases, the patient had a serious medical condition before taking terbinafine.
Call your doctor at once if you have symptoms of liver damage , such as nausea, upper stomach pain, vomiting, loss of appetite, tiredness, dark urine, clay-colored stools, or jaundice yellowing of the skin or eyes. These events can occur whether or not you have ever had liver problems before. This is not a complete list of side effects and others may occur. Call your doctor for medical advice about side effects. Avoid exposure to sunlight or tanning beds.
Terbinafine can make you sunburn more easily. Wear protective clothing and use sunscreen SPF 30 or higher when you are outdoors. Use Lamisil Terbinafine exactly as directed on the label, or as prescribed by your doctor. Do not use in larger or smaller amounts or for longer than recommended. Follow all directions on your prescription label. Do not take this medicine in larger or smaller amounts or for longer than recommended.
Terbinafine granules should be sprinkled into a spoonful of pudding or mashed potatoes do not mix with applesauce, fruit juice, or other fruit-based or acidic foods. Swallow this mixture right away without chewing. Do not save the mixture for later use. Terbinafine is usually taken for 6 weeks to treat scalp or fingernail infections, and for 12 weeks to treat a toenail infection.
Use this medicine for the full prescribed length of time. Your symptoms may improve before the infection is completely cleared. Since fungal infections may be very slow to clear up, you may need to take this medicine for several weeks or months. If you stop taking this medicine too soon, your symptoms may return. This medicine works best when there is a constant amount in the blood. To help keep the amount constant, do not miss any doses. Also, it is best to take the doses at the same times every day.
If you need help in planning the best time to take your medicine, check with your doctor. If you are using the oral granules, you may sprinkle the contents on a spoonful of pudding or other soft, non-acidic food such as mashed potatoes.
This mixture must be swallowed immediately without chewing. Do not use applesauce or fruit-based foods. If you will need two packets of oral granules with each dose, you may sprinkle the content of both packets on one spoonful or two spoonfuls of non-acidic food. Avoid caffeine coffee, soda, chocolate while you are using this medicine.
Terbinafine may cause caffeine to stay in your body longer than usual. The dose of this medicine will be different for different patients. Follow your doctor's orders or the directions on the label. The following information includes only the average doses of this medicine.
If your dose is different, do not change it unless your doctor tells you to do so. The amount of medicine that you take depends on the strength of the medicine. Also, the number of doses you take each day, the time allowed between doses, and the length of time you take the medicine depend on the medical problem for which you are using the medicine.
If you miss a dose of this medicine, take it as soon as possible. Have you seen any signs of improvement? I too have ringworm on my chest, neck, jaw and forehead and I am on about pill 20 terbinafine mg 1 a day and don't see much improvement. It seems the edges of the circles are getting redder and more defined, but drying out and getting flakey.
I hope your condition has improved, any updates? Any updates? I sure am having a hard time finding anybody who says "I took terbinafine for 6 weeks and everything cleared up". Maybe when it does clear up, people just don't follow up with a post I hope you have had success, let us know! I can taste salty but not sweet. Posted 3 years ago. Posted 2 years ago. Join this discussion or start a new one? We want the forums to be a useful resource for our users but it is important to remember that the forums are not moderated or reviewed by doctors and so you should not rely on opinions or advice given by other users in respect of any healthcare matters.
Always speak to your doctor before acting and in cases of emergency seek appropriate medical assistance immediately. Use of the forums is subject to our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy and steps will be taken to remove posts identified as being in breach of those terms. How long does Terbinafine take to work Follow. New discussion Reply. Is the Terbinafine topical a cream or oral a pill? It's the pill and i just cant see any difference. Steven, Any update?
Doctors have put me on a steroid cream now as the pill should have worked and after using the cream three times I can already see a difference. I'm going to finish the tablet course just in case as fortunately I haven't had any of the loss of taste side effects.
At least not yet anyway. Hello Steven Don't take the pills. I've taken Terbinafine for 4 weeks and then I lost my sense of taste. I searched on this site and I noticed that many people have suffered the same problem. It's awful and takes from 6 to 13 weeks to come back. If you have questions you can message me!! That's my advice! I noticed it has faded slightly but not much. Tonight will be dose 9.
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