Hi Brian,

Welcome to the triple Rx family. Hope you have a smooth ride and good luck with the 4 week VL. Let us know how you are going. Cheers.

By now you are almost three weeks in, and should be feeling it. Hope you are OK, and staying active and eating well. By now you have all the 8-hour alarms set for your Incivek, and have not missed any doses

 . If you want to click the link in my signature it will take you to a spreadsheet showing how my levels ran during treatment. Yours will probably do about the same. Good luck and keep your chin up.

Alan

Welcome Brian. I completed my triple therapy two weeks ago today.  I had more anger issues during the Invcivek phase and more depression at the last couple months of Riba and Peg...but a bit of both during both. My Hepa Doc used to ask me about mine every time I visited. They are helpful to prescribe something if you need it. I don't know if they should if you don't but maybe he has had patients that needed it before.

I actually had to have a lower dose of Riba than a lot of people due to other problems. I think that helped with mine.

Good luck on your treatment!

Welcome Brian! I'm 17 weeks into the 24 week treatment. I'm not so lucky as I had just about every sx. Everyday a new one lately. Yesterday I woke up with vertigo - but today I'm feeling 100%. Go figure Good for you to be healthy and strong. It's almost like preparing for a marathon.

At week 13 I went into a pretty severe depression. So much so my dr. almost discontinued me. I was able to get to a psy. fast and get the situation corrected before the doc got wind of it. Some folks do have more severe depression, so if you have a predisposition, all the more power to you. Maybe you'll have a better go of it, then I did. 7 weeks to go. If you need any support or info please feel free to ask. We're here for ya! Best, Kel

Good luck Brian, i agree with Sandra your younger than most of us old farts and it should be easier on you. I was on the Vict. so i don't know about your meds. But we are all here to give support. I completed about 6 weeks ago. And if i can do 48 weeks, i think you can too. Cause i am a whiny, bitchin type of guy..j/k...~Bob

I want to wish all of you the best of luck. I am now six month post tx and I am doing great. It is a long ruff road but hang in there. As I said many times on this board there is a light at the end of the tunnel. Tx effects everyone different. So hang in there you have a lot of good people on this board to support you.

Ken

bmhartwd,

     you have 2 things in your favor here,you're younger and have an excellent mind set. the higher your hemoglobin and platlettes the easier it'll be to cope w/sx. it sounds like you have agreat support system and do take days off work to sleep. finally since it's my 2nd time on treatment, i had enough hindsight to stock up on otcs for sx. wishing you well.

sandy,ucbgal

Im on the same treatment that you will be starting, and I am on week 10. Only 2 weeks left of eating 20 grams of fat 3 times a day...YYYEEEAAAHHHH!!!

The best advice I can give you is stay active, but listen to your body. I take a Zytec every morning with my AM pills to help with the side effect of the rash, and so far so good. I have had on/off periods of rash, but it has been really managable. I use coconut oil as a lotion and it has been a dream come true.

Treatment is very managable with a positive attitude and remembering why you embarked into this adventure in the first place.