Hi Happy Lady,

Really hope you get some professional advise soon. Yes, it would be extremely helpful if you could fill out your profile section.

Meanwhile, Suggest you make sure you’re drinking enough good quality water.

LG

Hi Happylady

I’m sorry to hear about your side effects to Sovaldi + Daclinza.

I was diagnosed with genotype 2 and just finished taking 12 weeks of generic Sofosbuvir + generic Daclatasvir.

After about 4 weeks, I started getting pain in my back molars (like I had cavities), and they became sensitive to cold. One of them would throb at night and would wake me up. I read somewhere that we all should have dental check-ups before DAA treatment. For me, however, that was too late. So, I started brushing my teeth after every meal with a soft brush and then rinsed with Listerine Total Care. After about a week or so the pain went away. I continued brushing my teeth 3 times a day (became a habit) and, for the last month, only rinsing with Listerine at night & had no further problems.

I also read that you have been diagnosed with a pituitary tumour. If you are having concurrent treatment, your side effects may be magnified by the SOF + DCV reacting with the other medication that you are taking.

This is how to add a signature to your profile:

Scroll to the top of any forum screen, click on the ‘Profile’ tab.

– Then click the ‘edit’ button on the right of the grey bar at the top of your profile.

– Enter your password in the required field, repeat to confirm, then click the ‘Save’ button.

– Click on the profile information tab and scroll down to signature panel and add what you want. There are also other fields in the profile page that you can edit if you want.

– Click on ‘Save’ when finished. That will take you back to your user account page. Click ‘Save’ again.

I hope that this helps.

Cheers
GT2

Welcome Happylady,

Not a doctor either but I would suggest seeing or talking with one as you say there is noticeable swelling of your mouth or gums and the insert recommends that course in case it is an allergy. Don’t try a reduced dose without expert advice. It may also be a candida infection and if so the doctor will tell you straight away and recommend something for it allowing you to restart treatment.

Where did you procure the meds? I would connect with them right away, they’ll be able to steer you in the right direction. I hope it is a great source like GP2U.
Post a message back so we know how to move forward.

Hello Happylady,

Yes it could be an drug reaction. If so stopping the drugs should see it go away and stopping them immediately was sensible.

If it does not go away then it must be something else and must be looked into. Even if it does go away it’s still possible it is, say, something you ate. I have a friend who gets that reaction from strawberries.

Assuming it goes away we get to the interesting part. To restart, or not to restart. Provided you did not get hives, wheezing, swollen tongue/throat or problems with breathing this should be safe enough.

If you restart the meds once things are settled and get the same reaction there is no doubt it’s the meds…..

I noticed you used the words Sovaldi and Daklinza so presume it’s originator medication, not that that matters. More important would be if that indicates you are GT3.