I had the liver discomfort round about week 3. Just before my 4 week VL. Freaked me out a bit. Only time that, briefly, my confidence in the drugs working waned a little.

Now I see a lot of people here reporting the same thing in that pre-4 week period. Anyway, the pains stopped after about a week and at about the same time the bloated feeling I’ve had for many years went away and my digestive system started feeling much better. Shortly, after that, the fairly extreme highs of feeling good on some days abated and the good feeling levelled out so now I just feel normal good all the time. I’m think this levelling out was the last of the virus having been vanquished. It just feels like it’s all gone.

I doubt I’ve really felt like this since I was infected 30 years ago in my mid 20s. I’ve spent nearly my entire adult life not knowing what it felt like to be really well. 4 weeks to go as of this Friday. Damn the time has flown by.

Thanks for this post! It’s good to know, Nadia!!!

I had the liver discomfort round about week 3. Just before my 4 week VL. Freaked me out a bit. Only time that, briefly, my confidence in the drugs working waned a little.

Now I see a lot of people here reporting the same thing in that pre-4 week period. Anyway, the pains stopped after about a week and at about the same time the bloated feeling I’ve had for many years went away and my digestive system started feeling much better. Shortly, after that, the fairly extreme highs of feeling good on some days abated and the good feeling levelled out so now I just feel normal good all the time. I’m think this levelling out was the last of the virus having been vanquished. It just feels like it’s all gone.

I doubt I’ve really felt like this since I was infected 30 years ago in my mid 20s. I’ve spent nearly my entire adult life not knowing what it felt like to be really well. 4 weeks to go as of this Friday. Damn the time has flown by.[/quote]

Oh yeah I’d had them before treatment too, for some years. But interestingly, they were a slightly different quality on and off treatment.

Before treatment they were a constant right sided dull ache that would last for days and made sleeping on my right side uncomfortable. On treatment, the liver discomfort was confined almost entirely to that third week. The pain came and went over a matter of hours and was more focal rather than being spread over a wide area.

I think Nadia’s right. I think it has something to do with the inflammation settling. Clearly, large numbers of the virus are obliterated in those first couple of weeks. So it makes sense that then the inflammation starts to subside. Interestingly, around about week 4 – 5 the joint and muscle pains in the rest of my body started to improve markedly including some tendon problems that were due to past injuries and which had become chronic. It was as if the reduction of inflammation possibly due to an overactive immune system spread to the rest of the body.

The broken arm has made this sort of stuff harder to assess. But the mere fact I’m bored witless because of ithe arm where prior to treatment I would have been relieved to have an excuse to do exactly what I felt like doing – absolutely nothing – is a pretty good sign everything is still on track. In a really tedious sort of way.

Yay! Fantastic!

Great so thats V/L 0 after 3 weeks ?

cheers

Copycat!

Congrats.