HI John Smith

Your awesome – good on you for making all these positive changes. Imagine how great you will be feeling when you kick the virus. You will be rocking it!

My vice was to reach for a chocolate bar or a bag of crisps when I hit the afternoon fade. Strangely or happily enough that fade has disappeared since starting on the treatment. Much easier now to settle for the healthier option of an apple or crackers. Not saying chocolate still isn’t one of my favourite things, but I don’t feel the urgency that I had previously.

Good luck with everything

Balance

HI Ariel
Was delighted to be left a message by a mermaid! Not sure if it was drug induced, but had a lovely visual of mermaid tail splashing about in shallow waters!
Other than feeling real down on energy levels due to the anemia, am actually feeling pretty darn good. Lighter and brighter.
This is a walk in the park compared to the interferon.
I took a very bleak journey with interferon (No ribavirin) some many years ago. Unfortunately I didn’t rise from the ashes as a glorious golden figurine. More like a ship wreck survivor clinging to a flotation device, with a damp box of matches as an only possession. Sure there is land in sight, distant blue haze, but that could be an interferon induced mirage!!
I guess if I was offered interferon as an only option I would say yes. But it would be on the proviso that I could have a padded locked cell and no human contact for the duration of the treatment!
Kept seeing ribavirin in the same sentence as interferon and my blood was running cold. Just plain chicken scared. But all is well and with a few tweaks can only get better.
So happy to hear your well and free of this nasty virus, and feeling confident I will be doing the victory dance before too long.
I hear what your saying, Dr James is the bees knees!
Balance

Hi Sabrecat

Getting to the point where I finally had a prescription to get the meds seemed to take eons and was a bit frustrating.

On the other the importation was really quick. Suddenly they were sitting on the kitchen table, and I couldn’t help but think, crikey, I am not ready for this!

It did take a few days for the end goal to come into focus, and with a deep breath and words of encouragement along with a reality check from the voices on this site I did get underway.

I may play with the dosage as well, but this is due to a lowered red blood count.

2 week results back today and everything normal except for the red guys

Signing off as Normal

Balance

THANK you

I seem to be doing ok, bit of a wobbly tummy, and some heartburn, but all manageable.

The bogey man behind the wardrobe door wasn’t quite what as bad as imagined

Thanks very much for the info Dr James

, I haven’t been able to make contact with my doctor regarding the dosage required (understand that it’s based on weight). Will pursue again tomorrow, and start the Ribavirin asap.

Big learning curve….

HI, am new to the language here, but that sounds like great news. I have just started on Dac/Saf, day 4, and am hopeful to report positive results further down the line. Certainly feeling empowered in making the decision to take this journey, but feeling somewhat out of my depth. Sure I will be throwing medical terms around like an old hack further down the track!
G3 with F3, and definitely had this beasties as a freeloader for 20years, possibly longer
Cheers