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Dagonee
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Does anyone who knows anything about drugs know which drugs an HIV patient might take might have the following phonetic spellings?

Metaphorin
Caletrise
Viad

The drug names were taken by a court reporter during a statement, so the phonetics could be quite off.

Thanks.
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KarlEd
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You might be able to find what you're looking for here.

Sorry I couldn't give a better answer.
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Ela
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The second one may be Kaletra.
The last one may be Viread.
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Dagonee
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OK, using Karl's suggested site and a similar one, I came up with the same possibilities as Ela and no other close candidates.

Metaphorin seemed closest to Metaformin, which is a diabetes drug. And I know this person also takes insulin, so I'm pretty confident on this one.

If anyone has any brainstorms about more likely candidates before 4:30 PM, I'd be happy to hear, but I'll go with these for now.

Thanks for the help!
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Ela
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Yeah, if the person is a diabetic, they may be on Metformin. (No "meta" in there, to my knowledge.)
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Metformin
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KarlEd
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Sounds like that one's a slam dunk then, aspectre.
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KarlEd
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Incidentally, I did a search on "Metaphorin" and got a website on "Metaphorin the bible". [Big Grin]

I guess Google doesn't know a typo. [Smile]
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Byetta seems to be another diabetes medication -- I used to do medical transcription and V and B get confused quite a lot...

Will try to find other possibilities.
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(V and B get confused in all transcription, not just medical [Smile] )
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Well, caletrise stumps me; it might be an -ase ending, but I haven't found a reasonable candidate yet. Good luck with this.
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I think caletrise is "Kaletra." As in, "I take some Kaletras every day." If that was the only plural one, I can see a court reporter assuming it ended in "ise" or "ase."

Kaletra, Viread, and another drug called Epivir (that, somehow, was spelled correctly) are a known trio of drugs prescribed for HIV.

Metformin is almost certainly correct - she takes insulin. I actually had the right spelling in my notes; I misttyped it in the post above.

Thanks all for your help. It was very useful and may actually do some good in the world. [Smile]
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Let us know what you can later, I am curious now. [Big Grin]
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A defense attorney was going to attempt to use a victim's medications to discredit her testimony, and I was helping the lead prosecuter prepare.

I'm deleting this post in 24 hours.
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