Hello, all,
Hope someone can help explain this weird stuff that's happening to me,
or say it happened to them in some form, or something ....
Going to give new blood tomorrow and must wait for my doc to get back
to me probably after Memorial Day...

OK. I just finished tx Fri 5/14. Had few symptoms during treatment --
groggy, itchy patches, coughing, funky hair. Was relatively not a
terrible ride. Ate right, slept right etc. Test immediately after tx
showed I'm clean of virus.

Whoopie!!

However.....

When I quit, all hell broke loose on my body.
I Quit Fri 5/14
On Sat 5/15 afternoon got nasty, pounding, eye-crossing headache.
Lasted ten days, though slowly subsided. It was the kind that hurts
when you cough, sneeze, shake head, or bend over, and stand back up.
Informed my care nurse.

Next day they call me to talk thyroid as cause of headaches. Said 5.5
is top of normal. Said mine was severely elevated and they didn't
really know why and my high count was a mystery to their seasoned
eyes.

OK, before tx I was at 6.3 and got Synthyroid (or whatever) but told
by doc not to take it a few days later because my number dropped back
to the 5s.

Anyhow, I said when they called, "What was the count? 6? 7? maybe 8?"

She said, "No. It was 84."

I almost crapped a load. "Eighty four!! My god, that's 17x normal!"

"I know," she said. "That's why we're concerned. Hope it's just a
freaky spike while leaving the Interferron. Go in Thur May 27 to give
more blood."

Without reading further, that's my question. What's going on with
that?
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Anyhow, after eight days of headache, it stopped. I felt great Sun May
23. I had two days of glorious elation and super boundless energy. I
was on top the world. Making love to the missus. Cooking her
breakfast. Singing songs. Crying with joy. Eating like a horse. Dug
her a rose garden -- three truck loads of dirt I loaded and unloaded.
Superman.
Knew about the high thyroid count, but I was feeling much better.

And, another thing -- been getting by since tx stopped on 3-4 hours of
sleep. Not fitful wakefulness, just not sleepy. Asleep at 2 a.m. up at
5 a.m., working 10 hrs. No napping, then up til 2 a.m., again, again,
and again, and still to this day...

Today, Wed., I felt slightly crappy, then more so as today progressed,
then more so, then groggy, faint, agitated, frightened, but no
headache. Ate a sandwich, felt better, but not normal better.

So, end of story. That's where I am right now. Giving blood Thur May
27 and waiting.

So, anybody out there...
What the hell is going on with me?
Please offer any expl. if you've seen this reaction in some form in
your own experiences.

Thank you all.
Bobby Watson

(Long live everybody!!)