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my muscles are still sore.

Are you taking any other medications?

James-Freeman-facebook wrote:

my muscles are still sore.

Are you taking any other medications?

Hi Dr James,
Below are the meds that I'm on.
During treatment, I didn't take any Simvastatin or Pantoprazole.

Ezetimibe 10mg mane, Simvastatin 5mg mane, Clopidogrel 75mg/Aspirin 100mg mane, Olmesartan 40mg/Amlodipine 10mg mane, Pantoprazole 20mg

Hi Michael

If I recall correctly you did a 24 week course of meds? so maybe due to that it may take your body a little longer to get firing on all 6 cylinders again. As for the sore muscles I can tell you that magnesium works small wonders. I used to do a lot of competitive swimming and running - on the days when I had a hard core training session I would take a couple of mag tablets a couple of hours before bed and found the next day that the muscle pain was more bearable.

P.S really like your avatar pic

Both ezetimbe and simvastatin can cause myopathy and myalgia (sore muscles). Getting your CK (creatine kinase) enzyme checked via a blood test would be a good idea. If it is elevated consider stopping one.

I must be one of the lucky ones. I have more energy, brain is sharper and I'm feeling braver. Swimming faster, feeling stronger. Definitely firing on more cylinders. Today is the last day of week 6 so all this might change. Felt a bit tired this week but maybe that's because I didn't have my customary Nana nap on any of the weekend days and was quite busy. 3 Yoga classes a week is helping me for sure and I do supported inversions most days.

beaches wrote: I must be one of the lucky ones. I have more energy, brain is sharper and I'm feeling braver. Swimming faster, feeling stronger. Definitely firing on more cylinders. Today is the last day of week 6 so all this might change. Felt a bit tired this week but maybe that's because I didn't have my customary Nana nap on any of the weekend days and was quite busy. 3 Yoga classes a week is helping me for sure and I do supported inversions most days.

Great to hear you are rocking it Beaches - I cant believe you are at end of the 6 week mark...seems like only a couple of weeks ago you signed up here and posted that funny Harvoni pic.

James-Freeman-facebook wrote: Both ezetimbe and simvastatin can cause myopathy and myalgia (sore muscles). Getting your CK (creatine kinase) enzyme checked via a blood test would be a good idea. If it is elevated consider stopping one.

Thanks Dr James,
I will get a CK enzyme blood test done & if elevated, I will stop the Ezetimbe .
I was thinking about going off all meds for a month & see how I feel.
But as all these meds I was prescribed after I had my stroke 3 years ago.

But as all these meds I was prescribed after I had my stroke 3 years ago.

The statin at low dose should be continued for it's anti-stroke effects. Keeping you blood pressure under control and using antiplatelet therapy like aspirin also helps.

James-Freeman-facebook wrote: Both ezetimbe and simvastatin can cause myopathy and myalgia (sore muscles). Getting your CK (creatine kinase) enzyme checked via a blood test would be a good idea. If it is elevated consider stopping one.

Dr James, below are the blood tests I had yesterday.
The good news is that my muscle aches & pains are getting less.
My wife & I just returned from a 7 day self drive holiday in NZ, where I did lots of walking tracks.
To my surprise my muscles started to ache but I just kept on pushing on & the pain got less.
Maybe being post Tx 4weeks, my liver is starting to recover from having the hepC virus for 45 years.

Monday 9/5/16
Fasting Blood Test
S&N Pathology
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Hepatitis C Virus RNA Qualitative
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FBC
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EUC
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LFT
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CK
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Vitamin D
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Anaemia
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Vitamin B12
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Lipids
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Cholesterol (fasting)

Tina-Hill-facebook wrote: Hi Michael

If I recall correctly you did a 24 week course of meds? so maybe due to that it may take your body a little longer to get firing on all 6 cylinders again. As for the sore muscles I can tell you that magnesium works small wonders. I used to do a lot of competitive swimming and running - on the days when I had a hard core training session I would take a couple of mag tablets a couple of hours before bed and found the next day that the muscle pain was more bearable.

P.S really like your avatar pic

Sorry for the delayed reply Tina .
5 weeks after treatment & my muscle aches & pains have been getting better.
I'm starting to feel more alive

Great to read that you had a fun road trip in NZ and that you're more limber now too with less pain
I'm happy for you Michael-Henry
Happies from Ariel

Gotta say I am 3 weeks post treatment and feel better all the time. Much more energy, less joint pain.

3 weeks into ledipasvir and sofosbuvir ( Hepcinat LP )

I'm experiencing increased
Fatigue
Irritability
Indigestion
Intermittent muscle, oral, and liver pains
coughing due to excess mucus production
headaches
stiff & crackly joints

all are welcome.

This means the medication is working and is killing the virus.

I can put up with it for another 9 ( hopefully ) weeks...

49 years hosting this virus is plenty.

Hi Claudel I am four weeks after EOT today but can recognize some of those sides while on generic harvoni. One of the things that helped me a lot to keep them at bay was to drink 64 ounces (2 litters) of fluids a day and avoid heavy foods (we usually know what they are! ). But keeping well hydrated seemed to do the trick for me specially for headaches! Best of luck, it might be that like me and others you also get to experience a sort of " high" from the DAAs and enjoy a great surge of energy for few weeks. It happened to me during weeks 3, 4 and 5!

Hi Meg

None of the sides are anything more than annoying to me at this point ( 58 more pills to go... )

I'm having way less distress than I did with interferon/ribavarin.

I got an energy boost right when I started taking it that lasted a week or so before I started getting a variety of extra symptoms.

I've been drinking lots of water and avoiding foods I've found to be problematic in the past.

At the moment indigestion is the worst of it for me and I don't want to take anything for it that might interfere with the antivirals.

I can tolerate it, I'm almost 1/3 done.

I'm just going to take it easy until I take all the medicine.

Thanks...