Hubby is starting week 5 of the triple therapy today. Everyone talks about doing the shots in thighs or stomach but our nurse said the back of his upper arm was less painful and that's where we've done the 4 shots he's taken. Is that ok? I read where so many of you manage to work and I'm amazed and impress...
Friends, Hit the 8 week incivek wall. You know what i am talkin about. work in sales so i have had my challenges. Took 3 weeks to get my 5 weeks labs back. what a long time for your mind to wander. still detactable but under 25. so that is still very positive...yea... On my last month of invivek...come on blu...
I just completed my 1st week of treatment, and I gotta say that Sx were very minimal except for a rash I have on both forearms, but no-where else(yet). I would say that the rash is mild-to-moderate, but not particularly itchy(yet). I emailed my NP and reported this, but haven't heard back from her....
Hey guys and gals... I'm new here but not new to the Hep-C information search. My mother was diagnosed with Hep-C about 10 years ago. She had a blood transfusion immediately after birth and that's how they say she got it. She had treatment and for whatever reason the treatments stopped and she remaine...
Soo this is my second week into treatment. I took shot number 2 this past Sunday. I have been feeling slightly more lazy than I usually do but other than that everything else seems normal. I'm by no means complaining.. But i'm confused about all of these symptoms. Does it get progressively worse??? Is t...
Wow, I can't beleive it. I have completed 9 weeks and 9 shots! I also was UNDETECTABLE at week 7. Yay me! I also had a Pegasys malfunction a few weeks back I thought I'd share with you: I had the needle in, pulled back on the red plunger to make sure I wasn't in a vein and the plunger CAME OFF in my hand. I cou...
Hey guys! Well, it aint pretty but I wanted to share this real moment with all my buddies on chemo and those who have lived through it. May all your days be with minimal SX!!! and may the "healing" fo...
Started week 11 yesterday (2 more weeks of Incivek). My dr just told me to reduce my riba dose to 600 mg because my hgb is now 8.6, down from 9.3 six days ago and 10 the week before. I was on 1,200 mg thru 9 weeks and then 1,000 mg for week ten. She has also ordered Procrit. I was undetectable at week four and...
was the incivek mainly for the non responders? or what? i have been doing treatment for 30 weeks. i had a meltdown saturday. i quit taking the riba's. doc tells me today that i must try to do the 48 weeks. well number 1 i have a tooth that broke off into the gum about a month ago & i know it is not tgoing to s...
Hello. Sorry for my english. My friend has Hep-C. Recenty he told me that some girl(he had had sex with) had bitten his lips while having sex. Is transmission possible in such case? I have seen a lot of information about necessity to have "calm" sex and that Hep-C infected persons should avo...
Hi all, I have completed 9 weeks of treatment so far. It is kicking my butt big time, but I was UNDETECTABLE at 7 weeks. YAY!Now I have a new treatment-related problem on my plate and I am so confused as to how this is SUPPOSED to be managed. At the eye MD last week, she found mild retinopathy in both of my ey...
hello all, i hope everyone is feeling alright today! this past weekend i had a family reunion in mississippi.. it was great! it was a much needed break. today was my first full day back and i had 3 dr appointments!! im wore out.. my last apt was just a hep a and b vaccine but for some reason i almost passed...
I have been meaning to ask this for a long time, but the treatment related topics kept me busy. But for the past few years, I have noticed that my skin is real delicate, and injures very easily. If I bang the back of my hand on a shelf, trying to catch something I dropped, a big flap of skin might tear, and it se...
I am at week three of triple therapy and so far other than my first day things have been very easy for me. I read about all of your stories and I feel guilty that I don't feel run down. I'm so sorry to all of you that are feeling sick and tired. I wish you all the best. I did just get bad news, however, and am unsur...
The Purple Devil Pills are out of my life forever. I even burned the final box in symbolic retaliation for all the burning its done to me. Felt pretty darn good.
Breast biopsy came back negative, so no need to stop one unpleasant treatment to begin another! Blood count up some, so back on full dose of Riba and Pegasys. Only 15 more weeks!!
I took the lab reports from my entire treatment and put them into a spreadsheet to make it easier to see trends and compare different levels at times when things happened. Makes a pretty interesting exhibit, to me anyway, and I was wondering if any Incivek triple starters would want to see it. Could be a...
If we acheive SVR, at any point are we able to get regular health insurance? Meaning; I currently have my health insurance thru the State of Texas High Risk Pool, it's very expensive and pretty crappy but it the only insurance avadible to me due to "pre-existing" condition. If SVR is acheiv...
I've done a little bit of research and the results for triple therapy look very promising. I took the peg/inter about 8 years ago. I cleared the virus at 6 months. That was the first time during the treatment that my viral loads were tested. The side effects were not too bad. I didn't have an appetite so I l...
I must confess I always hold my breath when I am about to hear the results of my viral load test. I suspect this is particularly true for those of us relapsers who lived through 48 weeks of combo treatment (as I did in 2001) with an undetectable viral load -- only to be told "It's back" six month...
Ferritin serum level was always in range 180-230, but after first week Tx jumped up to 800-950. Is it normal for Tx? Who is familiar with the issue? Thanks
Im pretty weak and after almost stabbing my hand with the usual syringe, I asked to try to the new ProClick. Did my first does tonight, works good, The directions say ti hold it flat to your pinched up skin, but later says at a right angle, I couldnt inject with the right angle, flat worked great, it autom...
Hey Friends & Fellow Dragon Slayers I need some friendly advice--this week thinking that I was going to sail through the last 10 weeks--came down with strep throat. It is killing me--went to my PCP on Monday--and she prescribed me some 5 day anti-biotics. Yesterday (Wednesday) they seemed to be...
With the new ****tail treatment you have to eat 20 grams of fat, here's a list of things you can have. http://www.squidoo.com/slaying-the-dragon This is a working list, meaning as new things are mentioned or discovered they will be added. Anything you have to add feel free to post here if you want...
Gidday, After 2 weeks of Vict., saw my doc today. After complaining about the Sx he said ' at your age with cirrhosis, what do you expect'. I guess after breezing thru the 4 weeks leadin, and after having had no real problems with my 26 weeks of SOC in 2000, it was a shock to feel so bad after 4 days of Vict. Rea...
I'm gonna be starting triple tx in the next few weeks, I've done peg/riba 3 times but it's been about 10 years since last tx. I am wondering if there are any special preperations I need to take/make before tx to make it more tollerable and effective. Thanks for any help you can give me.
Well I met with my doc today. I'm UND at 8 weeks, with normal AST and ALT. Blood is a little thin but over all I'm holding up well. Tired with a rash and burnin' bum but I can live with that for another 4 weeks and then 12 more weeks on Peg & riba. I see the train a comin'. Triple therapy, Incivek, Peg & Ri...
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and may the "healing" fo...