You are lookin' good.

Good luck and don't the tx get to you. You're chances are to good not
to go through the full treatment.

Steve

Welcome Burke.  Interesting how many lurkers are out there.  Glad to
see you join in.  Yup I would say this is dam good looking - and the
big bonus is only 6 months of treatment.  Who ever thought you guys
wanted to be known as good looking labs lol.

Mags
okay other lurkers start typing

On 28 Mar 2006 08:23:27 -0800, "Burke Gilman"
<burkegilman@moxmail.net>, in message ID
<1143563007.397265.6720@i40g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>, in the
newsgroup alt.support.hepatitis-c wrote:

Well I don't understand *all* of the numbers but the ones I do
understand look OK - especially the genotype.  It's great fortune only
having to do it for 24 weeks rather than 48.  I had a favourable
genotype as well (2b) and by the time thew tx starting getting really
messy, I only had a few weeks left to do.

Good luck on the tx Burke and welcome to the group. I hope you do ok on the
treatment.

Wow! Blood looks good, lucky you! I am new here too so I feel weird
"welcoming" you...lol,,,
anyways this is a fabulous place. In fact, the only place for hepC.

Burke Gilman ha scritto:

Hi BG,

  I do agree with you. Yes, your labs look _good_, your LFTs are low
and so is your viral load. You have a genotype 3 and this usually mean a
shorter treatment (24 weeks). So, as you can see, everything looks fine
and you should stay as positive as you seem to be now.

Treatment isn't going to be like taking a pill for a cold, there are
some side effects that affect everyone differently.
Usually almost everyone has a bad first injection night, then it goes
better and, after some weeks, some start having a bad time because of
different side effects like severe anemia, thyroid issues, weight loss
et cetera.
Anyway it is not like that for everybody. A lot of people don't develop
this severe side effects and just go through the whole of it managing
their saturday's fevers and headaches.
For almost everyone, it is quite a bad time, but definitely DOABLE.

Some pieces of advice:

.    keep drinking a lot of water;
.    keep eating good and genuine food;
.    stay positive and have something to do other than thinking "I have HCV
and I'm on treatment", but have friends to talk about what you're going
on when you feel the need of it;
.    ask your doctor opinion about a safe ("liver-friendly") vitamin
supplement (folic acid worked for me) to prevent or help preventing
development of severe anemia;
.    have frequent blood test to keep an eye on your values (I haqd the
first after two weeks of treatment to monitor anemia synptoms and one
after 4 weeks to check the viral load) and keep a copy of them;
.    ask anything you want and you think might help to your doctor;

And as far as support, information and sharing are concerned this is a
GREAT place, though not always perfect.

Good luck,
jeeb.

Good luck, BG!!  Slay the dragon!!!!!
elmo

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Hello Burke!

I just wanted to let you know 24 weeks is very doable. I breezed through
most of it. The last month....got me, I had to take time off work. I have 1
shot to go. It's good to hear you learned a lot from this group and that you
decided to join in the group. You did  your homework, and you sound like you
are well prepared for this journey!

All the best to ya!

dort