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What is Lysine?

Lysine is a nutritional supplement that is used to improve the utilization of vegetable proteins.

Reported Purpose & Efficacy

Reasons and Efficacy
Purpose # of patients
# of patients with evaluations Efficacy
Major
Moderate
Slight
None
Can’t tell
General health 15 1 Efficacy_slight
Cold sores (fever blisters) 11 3 Efficacy_major Efficacy_moderate
Other 4 2 Efficacy_cant_tell
Increase effect of another treatment 3 0
Support immune health 3 0
Oral herpes 2 0

See all 47 patients currently taking Lysine

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Reported Side Effects

Side effects as an overall problem

Severe
 0
Moderate
 0
Mild
 0
None
 8

Reported Dosages

Frequently reported dosages based on patients currently taking Lysine. See all 23 dosages ►

  daily 50 mg daily 100 mg daily 120 mg daily 200 mg daily 500 mcg daily 500 mg daily 1,000 mg daily 1,250 mg daily 2,000 mg daily
  2 Number of Patients: 2 1 Number of Patients: 1 2 Number of Patients: 2 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 1 Number of Patients: 1 15 Number of Patients: 15 9 Number of Patients: 9 1 Number of Patients: 1 3 Number of Patients: 3  

Reported Stop Reasons

Why Patients Stopped Taking Lysine (multiple reasons could be selected)
Reason # Patients Percentage of patients
Other 4   Other: 80%
Personal research 1   Personal research: 20%
Course of treatment ended 1   Course of treatment ended: 20%

See all 5 patients who’ve stopped taking Lysine

Reported Duration See details about how long patients take this treatment ▼

Currently Taking Lysine

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0

Stopped Taking Lysine

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0-1 month 1-3 months 3-6 months 6 months-1year 1-2 years 2 years or more
0
0
0

Reported Adherence, Burden & Cost See details from patient evaluations ▼

Adherence

Taking treatment as prescribed

Adherence of Lysine

Always
 4 50%
Usually
 4 50%
Sometimes
 0 0%
Never
 0 0%

Burden

Difficulty being on treatment

Burden of Lysine

Very
 0 0%
Somewhat
 2 25%
A little
 0 0%
Not at all
 6 75%

Cost

Paid out of pocket

Cost of Lysine

$200+
 0 0%
$100-199
 0 0%
$50-99
 0 0%
$25-49
 0 0%
< $25
 6 100%

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Report created on February 10, 2012.