Medication Question

[Chrisser]

Does anyone take or have you taken Doryx or Valtrex? Do you know if they contain gluten?

[tiffjake]

Does anyone take or have you taken Doryx or Valtrex? Do you know if they contain gluten?

I do not know myself, but I can point you in the right direction:

Doryx is made by Warner Chilcott (if you are taking the BRAND name, and not a generic) and their phone number is 973-442-3200. The line for medical related questions is 1800-521-8813 and is a Mon-Fri 8:30-5:30 line.

Valtrex is made by GlaxoSmithKline and their number is 1-800-825-5249. This is another line to call during the week. Again, be sure you are taking a BRAND name. The Valtrex ingredients are listed as: Active: valacyclovir hydrocholide, and Inactive: carnuba wax, colloidal silicon dioxide, crospovidone, FD&C Blue No. 2 Lake, hypromellose, magnesium sterate, microcrystalline cellulose, polyethylene glycol, polysorbate 80, povidone, and titanium dioxide. Open Original Shared Link

According to the above ingredients list, I would think it was gluten-free. It if were me, I wouldn't worry about it. But you should contact the company anyway. Just to be safe.

Your pharmacist should be able to help you on the weekend (as today is saturday). You might want the pharmacist to keep on file that you need gluten-free meds. They won't always catch it, but they might, and keeping that on file means that if they give you a non-gluten-free med, then they will have to take it back and give you a gluten-free one (where usually, if you have opened the package, they arent required to take it back).

[Chrisser]

Thanks for the info. I've been meaning to contact the companies, but it just keeps slipping my mind. I've only been gluten-free for a few weeks, and my routines are completely off, including my medication routines...and I'm pretty sure I was glutened somehow yesterday. The only thing I can think of that I did differently was take all my meds, but I'm still not sure. Just have to wait until Monday to find out.