FLUCONAZOLE vs FLUCYTOSINE

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Hi can someone give some recommendation about this interaction. I am talking about fluconazole the single 150 mg dose with the statins that metabolized by CYP450 ( SImvastatin and Atorvastatin) is this a major interaction? and what would you tell your patient to do if they are taking them together?

Thought it might be interesting to see what common mistakes my fellow pharmacists have encountered. Maybe we can learn from eachother and help eachother catch little problems that might otherwise slip through the cracks? Two examples that readily come to my mind are Macrobid-Macrodantin conf

Patient in amiodarone 400mg daily for rate control with positive blood culture for candida susceptible to fluconazole. ID recommended fluconazole. Colleague recommended dose decrease amiodarone to 200mg due to the drug interaction (increased amiodarone exposure) with ekg monitoring for qtc prolongat

I am a fairly new pharmacist (graduated 2022) so I don't know proper etiquette or whatever it may be for reporting nurse practitioners, physician assistances, or facilities.. Background: I have been working at a community pharmacy located in Virginia for a little over a year now. My pharmacy team an

This forum really helped me and I thought I’d add my own experience in case it can help others. Below is an overview of my experience as well as things I learned from doctors / wish I knew way earlier. I got a UTI in November 2023 and a yeast infection after that (irritation, discharge, painful peei

Female, 26. As the title suggest. I have resistant yeast, been having it for 7 months now. (Did everything I could and now I’m just waiting for my doctor to tell me the stocks for flucytosine and amphotercin B cream have arrived and is ready for me to begin treatment). So this is not self diagnosi

I wanted to share how I treated my C. Glabrata as Reddit was extremely helpful throughout my whole experience. From the time I started having symptoms to almost complete resolution it has been 6 weeks. I started off with the typical fluconazole, I did 4 days of that and it didn’t work. Did Monist

First of all Thank ALL OF YOU that have shared your experiences, struggles, uncommon symptoms, and methods of treatment. I’ve read so far back into this sub, I think as old as 5 years to help figure out what’s going on. Because of this sub I was able to voice my concerns about Ureaplasma. I was able

**TLDR:** There’s hope. I had chronic treatment-resistant BV/yeast. It cleared up after a year and I’ve been symptom-free for a year. **LONG POST** A little over two years ago, I started dating a guy who pressured me to have sex without condoms, along with him generally being unhygienic with toys a

I’m typing this in the middle of the night because I’m itching and I can’t sleep. I have been dealing with resistant yeast for 7 months because regular azole treatments doesn’t work on me. I finally got my doctor to order flucytosine cream and amphotercin B cream specially compounded for me and now

Hey so I have had Candida Glabrata for 10 months been to a billion gynos and tried a range of things (did boric acid for 3 weeks followed by probiotics two times, steroids, tried Nystatin cream, changed my diet, stopped drinking) and NOTHING has worked. I am so itchy all the time and my confidence h

I feel like I’m literally losing my mind. I’m having an incredibly stressful battle with chronic UTI and vaginal dysbiosis. I was on a course of Azithromycin and few months ago to help with bad bacteria/CV and Amphotecerin & Flucytosine compounded pessaries. I waited for 3 months to get them fro