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Thanks Fara!
I still have 19-ish weeks to go on my treatment, but these week four results shows me it’s working.
Another thing I’m still coming to terms about is my cirrhosis, but at least it shouldn’t get worse, and may even improve as the inflammation goes away.
So, a new normal for me….but a MUCH better outlook that before!
Hope I’m not going too off topic, but Ariel, your post about the horrible care you were given when you found out you had hep c struck a chord. I was put on two clinical trial of the poison duo inf and riba, Failed the first one, didn’t respond, then my doc told me about the second trial. You inject daily. So, I felt like I had to tough it out and do it – willpower and all that…. OMG, it was brutal, it was cruel, it put me in the hospital and I nearly died. After I got out of the hospital the doc in charge of the trial asked me when I was going to start up again!!! I was shocked he even asked me. It took me quite a while to come back to some normalcy, and I still don’t know what kind of damage it did to my body. I’d like to see some research done on that.
Later on I saw another hepatologist, this time a good, thorough one. He did genetic testing which showed I could never have responded to the interferon. All that for nothing, and worse, now I am not ‘tx naive’ and have to treat longer. I wish I wouldn’t have treated before, but hindsight is 20/20.
So, done with my b*tching…. glad to still be around, and so lucky to be treating now!
Thanks to all and glad to meet you!!!
I thought I’d be posting on my first day. but I found myself needing some quiet time to really take it in – what this means, how long I’ve been waiting, and how I had resigned myself to not getting treatment….. and how scary that was. And now that it’s here it seems too good to be true! Surreal….
I’m about to take my third one. So far, no sidesl, so different from the IFN/Riba poison. I’m elated, and in awe of this tx!
