Hep C Discussion Forum

 I think they meant your kidneys filtered the dead cells. The more you drink the more your kidneys clear. I never followed up on if it was true.

I get up at about 6:30 eat, maybe oatmeal or a bowl of grits with an egg in it. Then take my riba at 7:00. The next dose I take at 5:00 in the early evening after dinner. It will effect your sleep if you take it to late. Also when I was on the inter/riba trials years ago they told me to drink lots of water not only to keep hydrated but (don't know how true this is) that you need to drink to clear out the dead hep c. They said the vl test would count all hepc in your blood dead or not. At least I don't have to do the 20gm's of fat any more that was a pain. I still can't look at a Jimmy Deans biscuit or hagan ice cream.

Hi Aprilee

I just want to reiterate the others, I was told that timings weren't important or the amount of food unlike the Incivek. I have a small yoghurt if Im not hungry as I find its easy on the gut. At week 18 I am starting to think about food a lot after weeks of being completely off food hope I don't 'blossom' too much!!!!

The headaches sure come on fast as soon as your body starts to dehydrate...actually quite enjoy drinking it now

Im 5 am with 4 to 5 large salteen crackers, I take sofos 400  and (3) 200 mg riba   my gut likes this combo and no issues at all with sick to stomach

Im 5 pm (3) riba with 5 more crackers, and with each am and pm dose of drugs one 8oz glass of water.   keep the water going all day long, i always have a bottle of water going, my body craves it so its not hard to get lots of water in, i was not craving water like this before treatment but now i crave it, i think its the riba drying my skin and my bodys response iis lets get hydrageted.   As for taking the riba late at nite, I feel the riba is the cause of sleeplessness, so why take it just before bed time??   I chose 5 pm for the riba dose time to make it a little easyer to sleep.   The sofos i feel has only one side affeck, to KILL the HCV, I dont think it has a adverse affect on me in any other way. I feel all the insomnia  and rage issues are all a result of the riba, and none because of the sofos.  Well thats my take on on it all, and im no Doctor, but im 34 days into the combo and mt numbers are all tanking , so its a good thing.  Everyone keep working twords our goal   RC

I take my morning dose at 7:15am with a small bowl of whole grain cheerios and lactaid milk. I actually measure a "real" serving - i think its 29grams of cereal and 1/4 of milk. And I take my evening dose at 7:15pm - I usually eat dinner around 6pm so the food is still in my stomach and I don't eat anything extra with it. On days that I haven't eaten dinner by the evening dose I have actually taken them with just some Ritz crackers as I too lost my appetite, mainly later in the day.

April -   If you're unhappy with the 10am/pm thing, couldn't you gradually adjust your dosing schedule a bit earlier each day until you reached a more comfortable time, your personal schedule permitting?  As for diet, I take the riba with yogurt and banana in the morning and after dinner in the evening, whatever dinner might be.

wayne

Hi,

You don't have to eat a meal with Riba. They don't recommend anything specific, just to eat it with something. That helps to avoid stomach upset and help absorption. That goes for any oral medication. I lived on bananas and yogurt. I also had boxes of assorted fruit cups and granola bars. I looked for stuff that didn't have a ton of sugars. If you can find fruit cups in juice versus syrup, you'll spare the calories. But I lost so much weight on treatment it didn't matter about the calories as much as it did about eating good quality snacks. I know what you mean about having to fix so many meals each day, especially that 10 PM and later dose of meds. These ideas worked pretty well for me. If you don't mind the taste of olive oil, a small piece of bread with a teaspoon of olive oil gave a small serving of fat and the bread provided substance. Not many calories and the fat helps the bioavailability of the Ribavirin. This will also work with the Incivek but you have to consume enough OO to meet the fat grams required (approx. 1.5 Tbsp of OO = 20gms of fat). HTH!

Tig