Hi Becca, don't know how iI missed this, what great news! I miss you, but am sooooooooo glad you are feeling better. Do let us know that great news at 6 months K?
Huzzah girl! slay master! Blessings, Iris
Minerva said
Apr 24, 2012
Great to hear Becca and congrats on that UND result!! Wishing you all the very best for the future.
Hugs
Heather xxx
pamigo said
Apr 22, 2012
Becca,
So well said!
God Speed!
Cinnamon Girl said
Apr 22, 2012
Wow, it`s great to hear you`re doing so well now Becca, and congrats on still being UND at 10 weeks, excellent news! Must be amazing to have your energy back at last, and to see your hair growing too!
Thanks so much for giving us all an update, really pleased for you, onwards and upwards!
Love, Jill xx
BeccaJune said
Apr 21, 2012
Well, it's been almost 3 months post TX now and it's all just a bad memory. My blood work at 10 weeks post TX was still UND, and all counts were back to normal except still a little low on the Platelets at 121 and WBC at 2.6. The Absolute Lymphocytes are 600, which is almost as low as they ever were, but I can't tell it by the way I feel, WHICH IS GREAT! My hair is growing back, and the new growth is over an inch long now. I am lugging my heavy photography equipment around again and I have lots of energy.
I am so glad to see some of you finishing treatment and remaining UND. And you Barbara after only 8 or 9 weeks of treatment! I guess it really is true that what doesn't kill us makes us stronger. I am praying that we all achive SVR.
There IS life after treatment. Not only do I feel good, but I have an appreciation for good health and life that I never had before. It's almost euphoric at times, and I am so thankful.
All of you still on treatment, hang in there because it is definitly worth it!
Love Becca
jrc said
Apr 20, 2012
Barbara Lee wrote:
Dear Becca..
I'm so happy to see you!! So happy that you are doing well!!! Your beautiful!!!
I had lab work done and saw the Dr. yesterday ( 4/19/12) and I'm still UND!!!! So very happy!!! It's been 4 months since I've been off tx.
It's so good to start feeling good again!!!!
Talk with you soon Becca!!!!
Love, BL
What a miracle you must be so happy
Barbara Lee said
Apr 20, 2012
Dear Becca..
I'm so happy to see you!! So happy that you are doing well!!! Your beautiful!!!
I had lab work done and saw the Dr. yesterday ( 4/19/12) and I'm still UND!!!! So very happy!!! It's been 4 months since I've been off tx.
It's so good to start feeling good again!!!!
Talk with you soon Becca!!!!
Love, BL
Steve-o said
Apr 19, 2012
Well Done Becca, great picture, you look great, lovely even.
Not as lovely as me, but you can't have everything!
wnose said
Apr 12, 2012
Becca, thanks for the update...am currently on week one and am already noticing a difference. Hoping my week 3 post tx experience to be the same as yours. I did experience some hair loss on incivek, but it was mostly limited to my legs. The itch drove me nuts though - it would only start to itch just before bedtime and never during the day.
greenqueen said
Feb 20, 2012
Hi Becca,
You look lovely!
Great to hear news like this and you've had a really rough time on tx
Love Steff xx
Shaun said
Feb 20, 2012
Thank you for this update Becca. You look great!
I can only imagine how refreshing it feels to have mental and physical energy after such an arduous ordeal.
Can't wait to be there myself soon!
Shaun
Isiscat2011 said
Feb 20, 2012
Becca: You sound great and look maaaaaaavalous! The haircut is perfect.
JIme said
Feb 20, 2012
You sound great Becca, so happy for you today. Keep improving! Your giving me hope!
ordinary said
Feb 20, 2012
Hi Becca,
So glad you are feeling better. Your new short haircut is very flattering. I have been toying with getting mine cut. My husband did a valiant job for a non professional, cutting the long thin tendrils but leaving bare areas. Now that the hair loss has slowed, I am planning to get it cut on March 1.
ordinary
Cinnamon Girl said
Feb 20, 2012
Hi Becca, great to hear you`re doing so well, and I love your new haircut, it really suits you!
I`m so pleased you`re getting your energy back now, you had a very rough time of it on tx and stuck it out all the way, as well as giving a lot of support to everyone else. You`re a true inspiration!
Take care, and keep us posted!
Hugs, Jill xx
Iris Dragonfly said
Feb 20, 2012
WOW! Becca you look gorgeous, I'm so glad you are moving on and away from this nasty virus, I wish you all the best life has to offer, I'm going to miss you terribly, please check in on occasion if you can, and let us know how great you are feeling :) Love and Blessings, Iris
wilsondog said
Feb 19, 2012
Beautiful!!!!
BeccaJune said
Feb 19, 2012
OK, here I am! My scalp show through in some places, but not in the photo...
-- Edited by BeccaJune on Sunday 19th of February 2012 07:36:21 PM
Thank you Becca. You go out and enjoy your life and forget about all the bad stuff. Go happy you are feeling better. Hugs
jrc209 said
Feb 18, 2012
Wow becca youve been through allot. Im so glad to hear week 3 post tx
wilsondog said
Feb 18, 2012
Thank you for posting! I'm so happy to hear things are getting better for you and there will be light at the end of this tunnel. i have certainly not had as difficult a time on treatment thus far (four weeks), but do fear the possibilities! It's worked best for me to stay in the moment as much as possible and knowing someone who struggled as hard as you have is feeling healthier again provides great inspiration!
My favorite part is that you are embracing the depth of your wrinkles as beauty within the status of your health! I hate how much this is messing with my skin and muscle mass! Not that I was a body builder or anything, but I started Ashtanga yoga pre-treatment and feel like I'm fighting a losing battle to retain the strength I've gained. Perhaps the end of Incivek will change the fat intake counter-balance, but I suppose it will all be revealed...
Congratulations on the hair-- how about a picture?
<3 Kate
andrzej said
Feb 18, 2012
Becca,
Glad you're coming out of it and thank you! I'm just a couple weeks behind you, just finished my treatment Thursday and your insight has been very helpful. Once again, thanks and all the best!
Islandgrl said
Feb 18, 2012
Becca, I am so happy you are feeling better and gettiing on with life. I've been reading all of your post since I found this forum. My hair started falling out about 3 months into tx. and I was so deppressed. I saw that you had the same problem and you dealt with it so gracefully. You really helped me to continue on. You even had to work during tx. and be in the public. I live on an island in the Gulf of Mexico and only have to work in the summer so I've been lucky. I am on week 31 of 36. I just wanted to let you know how helpful you have been and thank you for all you have done.
BeccaJune said
Feb 18, 2012
As most of you know I had a rough time on tx, and could barely get out of bed for several weeks.
It's been 3 weeks since my last riba and 4 weeks since my last shot. At the end of tx I had a problem with shortness of breath, and a cough. Fatigue was my constant friend. Most of my hair had fallen out and I had been wearing a wig to work for the past couple of months.
2 weeks post tx: I didn't notice any big difference but my cough gradually got better and a little less fatigued. By the end of the 2 weeks, I noticed my hair stopped falling out. At first I wasn't sure if there just wasn't much left to fall out, or if it had really stopped. I had a Dr. appointment, and he said he will do blood test to check VL at 6 weeks post tx and then 6 months after that. He felt my liver and said he could tell it had gone down in size. My skin has dark blotchy areas from the old rash and shot reaction on my stomach, he said the back and chest blotches should go away fairly soon, but by stomach is so bad that it may take several years (if ever) to change back to normal. I started getting headaches 3-4 times a week that seem to come on in the early morning keeping me from sleeping, and usually go away when I get up and have coffee.
3 weeks post tx: Physically, this last week has been amazing! I have so much more energy. Still getting the headaches, some trouble sleeping but I am trying not to take anything to help. I took Lorazapam at night when needed throughout tx and Tylenol PM sometimes. On the weekends, I don't take anything now and if I have trouble sleeping during the week I will take 1/2 of a Lorazapam.
I got my hair professionally cut really short, and yesterday when I got out of the shower it looked like short hair instead of chemo hair, so I worked up the confidence (courage) to go into work without the wig! I look older because my hair is partially gray and I haven't colored it since beginning tx. I have deeper wrinkles since starting tx so it seems to have transformed me into a healthy, older woman at 56. I'll take it!
Some of my pre-tx arthritis aches and pains have come back, but the side effects are mostly gone except for my dry flaky scalp and thin hair. I am getting stronger every day. My interest in life has returned. I am interested in my photography again. My mental state is so much better, and I look forward to being with friends and getting out of the house.
I don't come to the forum as much now. One reason is that my sx were so bad that I want to forget. I have been down so long, and to finally feel better is such a blessing. I am so thankful for the chance at a life without hep c.
Choosing to go trough tx was a big decision and the timing seemed to be right for me. It is a very personal choice, and depending on your situation it may not be right for you.
I don't think I would have made it through tx without the help of my friends here on the forum. If I keep writing, I'm gonna cry, but you all know what I mean. Thank you for being there.
Hi Becca, don't know how iI missed this, what great news! I miss you, but am sooooooooo glad you are feeling better. Do let us know that great news at 6 months K?
Huzzah girl! slay master! Blessings, Iris
Great to hear Becca and congrats on that UND result!!
Wishing you all the very best for the future. 
Hugs
Heather xxx
So well said!
God Speed!
Wow, it`s great to hear you`re doing so well now Becca, and congrats on still being UND at 10 weeks, excellent news! Must be amazing to have your energy back at last, and to see your hair growing too!
Thanks so much for giving us all an update, really pleased for you, onwards and upwards!
Love, Jill xx
Well, it's been almost 3 months post TX now and it's all just a bad memory. My blood work at 10 weeks post TX was still UND, and all counts were back to normal except still a little low on the Platelets at 121 and WBC at 2.6. The Absolute Lymphocytes are 600, which is almost as low as they ever were, but I can't tell it by the way I feel, WHICH IS GREAT! My hair is growing back, and the new growth is over an inch long now. I am lugging my heavy photography equipment around again and I have lots of energy.
I am so glad to see some of you finishing treatment and remaining UND. And you Barbara after only 8 or 9 weeks of treatment! I guess it really is true that what doesn't kill us makes us stronger. I am praying that we all achive SVR.
There IS life after treatment. Not only do I feel good, but I have an appreciation for good health and life that I never had before. It's almost euphoric at times, and I am so thankful.
All of you still on treatment, hang in there because it is definitly worth it!
Love Becca
What a miracle you must be so happy
Dear Becca..
I'm so happy to see you!! So happy that you are doing well!!! Your beautiful!!!
I had lab work done and saw the Dr. yesterday ( 4/19/12) and I'm still UND!!!! So very happy!!! It's been 4 months since I've been off tx.
It's so good to start feeling good again!!!!
Talk with you soon Becca!!!!
Love, BL
Well Done Becca, great picture, you look great, lovely even.
Not as lovely as me, but you can't have everything!
Becca, thanks for the update...am currently on week one and am already noticing a difference. Hoping my week 3 post tx experience to be the same as yours. I did experience some hair loss on incivek, but it was mostly limited to my legs. The itch drove me nuts though - it would only start to itch just before bedtime and never during the day.
Hi Becca,
You look lovely!
Great to hear news like this and you've had a really rough time on tx
Love Steff xx
Thank you for this update Becca. You look great!
I can only imagine how refreshing it feels to have mental and physical energy after such an arduous ordeal.
Can't wait to be there myself soon!
Shaun
Becca: You sound great and look maaaaaaavalous! The haircut is perfect.
You sound great Becca, so happy for you today. Keep improving! Your giving me hope!
Hi Becca,
So glad you are feeling better. Your new short haircut is very flattering. I have been toying with getting mine cut. My husband did a valiant job for a non professional, cutting the long thin tendrils but leaving bare areas. Now that the hair loss has slowed, I am planning to get it cut on March 1.
ordinary
Hi Becca, great to hear you`re doing so well, and I love your new haircut, it really suits you!
I`m so pleased you`re getting your energy back now, you had a very rough time of it on tx and stuck it out all the way, as well as giving a lot of support to everyone else. You`re a true inspiration!
Take care, and keep us posted!
Hugs, Jill xx
WOW! Becca you look gorgeous,
I'm so glad you are moving on and away from this nasty virus, I wish you all the best life has to offer, I'm going to miss you terribly, please check in on occasion if you can, and let us know how great you are feeling :) Love and Blessings, Iris
Beautiful!!!!
OK, here I am! My scalp show through in some places, but not in the photo...
-- Edited by BeccaJune on Sunday 19th of February 2012 07:36:21 PM
Thank you Becca. You go out and enjoy your life and forget about all the bad stuff. Go happy you are feeling better. Hugs
Wow becca youve been through allot. Im so glad to hear week 3 post tx
Thank you for posting! I'm so happy to hear things are getting better for you and there will be light at the end of this tunnel. i have certainly not had as difficult a time on treatment thus far (four weeks), but do fear the possibilities! It's worked best for me to stay in the moment as much as possible and knowing someone who struggled as hard as you have is feeling healthier again provides great inspiration!
My favorite part is that you are embracing the depth of your wrinkles as beauty within the status of your health! I hate how much this is messing with my skin and muscle mass! Not that I was a body builder or anything, but I started Ashtanga yoga pre-treatment and feel like I'm fighting a losing battle to retain the strength I've gained. Perhaps the end of Incivek will change the fat intake counter-balance, but I suppose it will all be revealed...
Congratulations on the hair-- how about a picture?
<3 Kate
Becca,
Glad you're coming out of it and thank you! I'm just a couple weeks behind you, just finished my treatment Thursday and your insight has been very helpful. Once again, thanks and all the best!
Becca, I am so happy you are feeling better and gettiing on with life. I've been reading all of your post since I found this forum. My hair started falling out about 3 months into tx. and I was so deppressed. I saw that you had the same problem and you dealt with it so gracefully. You really helped me to continue on. You even had to work during tx. and be in the public. I live on an island in the Gulf of Mexico and only have to work in the summer so I've been lucky. I am on week 31 of 36. I just wanted to let you know how helpful you have been and thank you for all you have done.
As most of you know I had a rough time on tx, and could barely get out of bed for several weeks.
It's been 3 weeks since my last riba and 4 weeks since my last shot. At the end of tx I had a problem with shortness of breath, and a cough. Fatigue was my constant friend. Most of my hair had fallen out and I had been wearing a wig to work for the past couple of months.
2 weeks post tx: I didn't notice any big difference but my cough gradually got better and a little less fatigued. By the end of the 2 weeks, I noticed my hair stopped falling out. At first I wasn't sure if there just wasn't much left to fall out, or if it had really stopped. I had a Dr. appointment, and he said he will do blood test to check VL at 6 weeks post tx and then 6 months after that. He felt my liver and said he could tell it had gone down in size. My skin has dark blotchy areas from the old rash and shot reaction on my stomach, he said the back and chest blotches should go away fairly soon, but by stomach is so bad that it may take several years (if ever) to change back to normal. I started getting headaches 3-4 times a week that seem to come on in the early morning keeping me from sleeping, and usually go away when I get up and have coffee.
3 weeks post tx: Physically, this last week has been amazing! I have so much more energy. Still getting the headaches, some trouble sleeping but I am trying not to take anything to help. I took Lorazapam at night when needed throughout tx and Tylenol PM sometimes. On the weekends, I don't take anything now and if I have trouble sleeping during the week I will take 1/2 of a Lorazapam.
I got my hair professionally cut really short, and yesterday when I got out of the shower it looked like short hair instead of chemo hair, so I worked up the confidence (courage) to go into work without the wig! I look older because my hair is partially gray and I haven't colored it since beginning tx. I have deeper wrinkles since starting tx so it seems to have transformed me into a healthy, older woman at 56. I'll take it!
Some of my pre-tx arthritis aches and pains have come back, but the side effects are mostly gone except for my dry flaky scalp and thin hair. I am getting stronger every day. My interest in life has returned. I am interested in my photography again. My mental state is so much better, and I look forward to being with friends and getting out of the house.
I don't come to the forum as much now. One reason is that my sx were so bad that I want to forget. I have been down so long, and to finally feel better is such a blessing. I am so thankful for the chance at a life without hep c.
Choosing to go trough tx was a big decision and the timing seemed to be right for me. It is a very personal choice, and depending on your situation it may not be right for you.
I don't think I would have made it through tx without the help of my friends here on the forum. If I keep writing, I'm gonna cry, but you all know what I mean. Thank you for being there.