Toenail Fungus TreatmentsCiclopirox Penlac Nail Lacquer Reviews
Ciclopirox lacquer has been shown to have a 30% success rate with Nail Fungus Infections. It probably works as well as fluconazole pills. So if you’d rather put something on your nails than take pills, you may prefer ciclopirox, especially if your infection is mild.
But ciclopirox doesn’t seem to work as well as itraconazole pills or terbinafine pills. Ciclopirox is a chemical that you paint onto your infected nails like nail polish.
The brand name is Penlac Nail Lacquer. You can get it only with a prescription from your doctor.It may take a while before you see any results. Sometimes it takes as long as six months. If your infection is very bad, you may have to keep using ciclopirox for up to a year.
You may also need to see a health care professional every month or so to have the infected part of your nail removed.
Ciclopirox stops the fungus from making the chemicals it needs to grow. This may eventually get rid of the fungus, so your infection goes away. Then the dry or split skin and other symptoms of infection may be able to heal.
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After several months–Ciclopirox Penlac Nail Lacquer did not work for me. It was also very inconvenient to use, and sometimes nail felt uncomfortable after applying and noticed poor circulation in my feet and hands. Actually, it made some nails worse!
I was trying for at least a year to remove my own infected nails by filing them every night, so when I started using Ciclopirox (Penlac), my nails were already filed very thin. This lacquer appears to soak down into the infected nail, with reapplications nightly for a week, then remove with alcohol, and remove as much of the nail as possible. I use the expensive sharp Made-in-Germany two-handled nail clippers and remove the nail by grabbing and pulling a layer off, being careful not to make it bleed. So far, I am very pleased and I am only on my second bottle, but again, I had already removed most of my nail before I started. I believe this is going to cure my condition, and it was not merely a “mild” case, but was very unsightly. Now my nails are beginning to look great. My prescription is for 2 refills, and I believe the 3rd bottle will be sufficient to completely cure my case.
I had an extremely severe infection - much worse than in any of the pictures.
I took a few months and alot of Penlac, but I started noticing some improvement.
After about 3 years of obsessively using Penlac, along with a cicloporox cream,
my nails appeared normal.
It’s not a cure. The infection returned after I stopped using it. One side effect
I noticed was that it made my nails turn black - the cure was almost worse than
the disease!
My three smallest nails on my right foot had the fungus all the way to the root. I started by removing the dead detached nail with a dremel and small sander bit on it. I’m pretty handy with tools so it wasn’t a problem though areas I was too vigorous I did bleed a little. After a day I started with penlac, very generous each night across the nail bed and extended about 1/8″ outside the nail area. After about 4 months and half way through the second bottle Penlac, I gave up. To my surprise the smallest toe grew a normal nail, pink and healthy from tip to root. The next toe in from the smallest had no change, still the fungus, the next toe seems to be cured but not grown out all the way yet. I’m getting some more penlac to try again but I really want to get the laser treatment (Noveon) when it meets FDA approval.
I have a mild fungus case and tried the laser treatment with no success. I’m going back to trying penlac with a little more patience.
i had a mild nail fungus due to pedicures,and penlac worked wonders.all u need is to have have patience