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Shot # 39, nine more to go.
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Things are looking brighter, I can see some light at the end of the tunnel! Just knowing we have made it this far gives me hope. EOT then SVR..... !!!! Hope everyone is having a great day. Tim
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Starting Triple therapy tomorrow
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The time has come!!! I picked up all of my meds from my Hepa doctor today and signed my life away to treatment. Will start tomorrow with Incivik, RIBA and take my first interferon shot tomorrow night. I'm very nervous!! What should I expect???
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I'm tired of all the BS!
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Dart 14. I'm sick, throwing up daily, nausea the rest of the time. I've got all the symptoms and then some! I had to call my doctor about some dental concerns and got his nurse. Well my doc is on his third freaking vacation of the summer, so his nurse called his fill in for help. I got a call today and was told t...
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SEVERE NAUSEA
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Hi everyone, I'm having severe nausea, I feel like I'm going to vomit everytime I smell or think of eating, what can I take to help with that, I'm not even on treatment yet. I'm losing so much weight and I have no energy, I've lost 4 pounds in the past two weeks. Please respond love and prayers
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daddysgirl
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procrit&rash
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am now on my 4th injection of procrit and have afew questions. how is everyone staggering the 2 shots? i was on a wednesday pegasys shot and saturday procrit. this week i switched the procrit to thursday. has anyone taken both injections on the same night? also does anyone have a rash...
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Hi Guys, still around.
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I needed a break for a while. After getting done with Incivek I just wanted not to think of treatment or HepC. I wanted to forget being sick and treatment. Fell back into a some what normal routine again, working, taking pills daily and shot once a week. Ended up in the hospital month or so ago for one unkno...
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Goodbye hair....
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Ever since starting the victrellis, a few weeks after I noticed my hair just coming out after combing/showering. Hair is getting very thin. I showed my boyfriend and he told me I am gonna be bald after treatment!!! Anyone have this problem....and I dont think there is probly much I can do for it.
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Who here has been on incivek?
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Hello! I am just a couple of weeks away from starting triple with incivek. I want to gather some info on how everyone did with it. I know everyone is different and will react differently but I am trying to just prepare myself mentally. I am not so concerned about the side effects of riba and interferon be...
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Thyroid levels going up...
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My thyroid is now at 3.08 which is a drastic rise since begining of hep c treatment.. Has anyone else had a high thyroid during treatment, but level back out later.. Since I started treatment Ive been a couch potato and am wondering if maybe this has something to do with it?... Maybe I should be more activ...
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Rash has started
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Yes the rash has started, its not pretty and so far its only on my legs. I put some coconut oil on it.....ugh another thing to worry about....and now my doc said most likely I will have to do the 48 weeks because of the cirrosis..which i can't seem to spell...but he said "they" recommend 48 wee...
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tonib
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When Will My Husband Start Feeling Well Again?
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My husband's last pill of treatment is this coming Thursday. Do you know when he will start to feel somewhat better again? Thanks, Carol
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At 6 wks. UND, BUT!!!!!!!
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We had an appointment to go see Angelo's Hepatologist today, and for some reason I had a very uneasy feeling about it all day! Usually our daughter comes with us, but for today I had told her I could handle it on my own. Well as it was getting closer to the appointment time, my uneasiness got the better...
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Last shot tonight ! 48 wks.!
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It was tough in the beginning with the Incevek almost killing me due to a internal rash. After the Incivek it got so much better just tired and cranky. Drink the water! I wonder what normal will feel like? I'll check back in a few weeks. thank you everybody Brian
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Riba reduction!
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When the blood test showed that Angelo's hemoglobin level was low, the Doctor reduced his riba by half...down to 600 mg. in the am. It's already been a week and he said to continue this was till further notice. I am so worried that this prolonged reduction may impact on the treatment success. Can the vir...
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Last two weeks
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Well did second last shot of peg monday and have 39 pills or rib to go, the eprex injections will be at least three more and then go from their after the blood work. Some side effects lessening because they do not have me on the Vitt anymore. But fatigue skin sensitivity and dehydration I have always got...
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Did I hear it correctly?
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Just got a call from the nurse regarding Angelo's week 6 V/L results! UND, UND, UND, UND 00 00 00 00 Our prayers were answered! Now that there is no more poison to hurt his liver , we can move on to recovery! Mena
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hepCFREEwanab
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MT. SINAI Liver transplant Specialist visit
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Hello everyone, yesterday we met with the liver transplant specialist at Mt. Sinai Hospital. His name is Dr. Gene IM and we also spoke to PA Cynthia Byrne. Both were very nice and knowledgeble. Angelo's Hepatologist had forwarded to him all the lab results so that he could be familiar with his conditi...
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Taking a plane..what about the needle?
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Hi folks, Can someone please let me know how/what/where do we pack out interferon needle when we travel on a plane? I can't ask anyone else but you guys.
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Update on my husband Angelo!
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Hello everyone, I am so, sorry for not having posted in a while. I must say though that I come on here everyday to read and search hoping to learn something new! To make a long story short here goes the shortened version of what has been happening. Angelo is on his 7th week of treatment, yet it feels like...
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Say hello to my new friend Vic
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Just took my 1st 4 pills of the 3rd part of my therapy.....victrellis. yikes!
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tonib
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Has anyone stopped treatment for a short time and restarted?
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I've been on triple treatment for 5 wks 2 days and I am stopping treatment for 2 wks 3 days because I am donating stem cells to my brother to hopefully get rid of his cancer. It was a battle with all the doctors on what to do but my hepatologist in the end felt it was ok for me to stop since I responded to treatmen...
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3rd Blood transfusion
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The specialist just called after yesterday's blood work. Finally I'm going to get blood! Hgb is at 82 and I'm dizzy and feel like I'm going to pass out. It will happen within the next couple of days. Looking forward to some energy and a good book read!
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EOT Labs Disaster! Need advice!
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Greetings all! Ok of you may recall that I am finishing off Ribavirin this Thus. and finished Peg intron on July 11th. I have has no VL since week 11 and them my Dr. only tested to 650 VL. So I to my Dr. office today to pick up my EOT lab order and notice she has again ordered no VL. After waiting for 13 weeks to...
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Important Question About Husband's End of Treatment
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This coming Thursday will be my husband's last Interferon shot! I understand that his doctor would like him to continue taking his Ribavirin pills for one week after his last shot, which makes sense. I already calculated the numbers, and after that last week of taking the Ribavirin pills, my husba...
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Chinese Herbal Medicine
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I tried Interferon with Ribarvrin twice for a total of 1.5 years. No change, in fact some things went up. After the treatment. I looked into some Chinese Medicine and with some doubt tried it. My liver enzymes are now normal and no virus in the blood. Before I had reading 3 times the normal li...
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need advice
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greetings, just got back from hospital last night and hemoglobin went from 6.0 on tuesday to 8.7 on thursday w/2 bags of blood. wow i feel alive! at least i was smart enough to go to the er when my pulse was 110 and still hadn't gotten back my 7/26 labs. right before i left hospital my dr. gave me a sh...
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ucbgal
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Its good news!
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Went to the doc today and after 5 shots, 1/2 week of vic, and 5 weeks of ribo, my VL dropped from over 5 million to 374,000!!! Thanking God for his good graces and I actually felt like my old self after hearing that....well it lasted a couple of hours anyway...but it was wonderful!
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tonib
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Headache
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Anyone have any experience for me, I have headache every day. some days it hurts really bad others just dull ache -- Edited by JoAnneh on Friday 8th of March 2013 02:41:25 AM
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MJ! Where you be?
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Hey Sweetness,,,,   I am trying to pull my head out of the sand. Think about you a thousand times a week. HEY!!!!! You are there G! XO Signed, The not so sunny 'D' PS except for YOU being near the end!
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getting ready to start tx. anybody on Victrellis?
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hello there everyone. i just had my pre tx biopsy done. I have stage 1 scarring and grade 2-3 inflamation, i guess thats good says the dr. i do have a viral load of 12 million though. I have kaiser and their tx combo is ribaviran, inteferon and and something new called Victrellis. Is anybody else on this co...
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