I recently was prescribed valtrex by a local doctor for oral herpes. I don't have insurance and i'm biting the bullet on paying for it out of my own pocket. The doctor was just at a local clinic so I have no relationship with him and I have come up with a question but I have no desire to call and talk to him any further (you can tell I wasn't fond of him haha). Anyways, I was prescribed valtrex-500 mg tablets. I was reading online that using them for episodic treatment (since I want to conserve them as much as possible) you are supposed to take two doses of valtrex 1g tablets 12 hours a part and that's it. Now my question is would I take 2 tablets each time or is there a difference in each pill due to the different about of milligrams in each and this wouldn't work because of how it's absorbed. Hopefully I explained this as clear as possible. Maybe i'm just overthinking this but this seems to be a pretty accurate place to get information from what i've read thus far. Thanks in advance.

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