Hep C Discussion Forum

Well the Rage is a real problem all by itself! It can be mild, moderate or massive  I think it's difficult to say how you'll be affected on any given day, but it's safe to say it can affect you at any moment. My best suggestion is to know your limitations and since you've been on Tx for several weeks, you have an idea of those moments or triggers that will likely set you off and do your best to avoid them. I realize that it's impossible to avoid everything. Facts prove that you'll have to deal with some anger or rage from this stuff and your best method to handle it is to remove yourself from the offending person or environment as soon as you can. Listen to music, meditate, exercise or try some Yoga. Just try something and often the change of activity can defuse the moment of rage. I can feel it brewing and have learned to recognize it. I must admit though that I have taken the opportunity to let a person or two know what I was thinking, but only on a rare occasion. It's best to just avoid confrontation, especially when the causative factor lies within a small blue pill called Ribavirin...

That's excellent news! So glad that you're UND at 8 weeks, that's a very good indication of future SVR success. It also sounds like your doc made the right call regarding your glucose results. Just keep an eye on all of your tests in the future and be involved. Everything is moving forward on schedule and moving very positively! Keep us informed of your future progress and take a moment to do a Happy Dance, you deserve it after good news like that! 

Hi Cinders,

Tig has a good point. As is often the case, I have problems with USA lab. values. You state that your non-fasting glucose was 109 mg/dL. The USA normal range for non-fasting is stated as 70-120 mg/dL (3.6 -7.5 mmol/L here and in Europe), so yours is normal. Your HbA1c is slightly elevated at 6.7%, where <6.5% is accepted as normal. The HbA1c measures glycated haemoglobin, which is an indication of average blood glucose over a long period of time. I certainly would refuse Diabetes treatment with those levels.  You need to get a fasting blood glucose and insulin.  Insulin Resistance (IR) is common in HepC, and is associated with a poorer response to Rx and to a more rapid increase in liver fibrosis. Even high blood sugars without IR, can be found in Chronic HepC.  This usually settles down after SVR, which you will almost certainly achieve.  Please let us know when you get the fasting results. Cheers.

Hi again, thanks for that information.   Type 2 diabetes is known to be associated with Hep C and sometimes the treatment drugs can make it worse, so maybe that`s why it`s shown up now.   I`m certainly not an expert but your glucose levels don`t look too bad at all.

Your viral load was in the low range to start with.  Did you have another viral load test done at week 4?  Your ALT and AST levels are great! 

I`m sure it must be hard going for you with your grandchildren to care for, but hang in there and hopefully things will start getting easier for you. 

48 year old raising 3 grandchildren with SO.  He was diagnosed with Hep C geno type 1 and went through treatments that pretty much rendered him useless.  I get tested, well cause we've been together 20 years and I have it too, just geno type 2.  Docs were confused we were confused. Viral load  close to 700,000.  Pega injection Thursdays and 400 rib twice a day.

Side effects, short term memory loss, very easily bruised. minimal joint pain day of shot and shear exhaustion the day after and I feel like I am growing rocks in my nose (this is the worst).  Exhausted and SO thinks somehow my treatment isn't as bad as his cause I am not taking inciveck. 

I go to my primary because of my nose it hurts.  She sees the bruises and sends me for blood work STAT.  I am a hard stick and I was told to drink and eat chips or something salty that it helps.  I drank an apple juice and a bag of chips on the way to hospital for STAT blood work.   Now she has called in a prescription for more pills, says she thinks I must be pre-diabetic.  None of the blood work makes sense. 

Can anyone shed light on this?