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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Hepatitis / November 20065/48
Shot 5 of 48 Friday night (back to Friday nights). Sides-wise, one thing I think worked this weekend was just giving in, taking it easy, getting a lot of sleep, and not trying to push it by going out Friday or Saturday night. Also drinking water - I try to have a glass on the even's (or the mod 4's at least). Saturday as mostly-usual I felt fine until around noon, then the sides came on between then and 2. My peg sides so far are like this: Saturday, in bed I feel fine enough to get really bored from tv & reading, but after getting out for an hour I'm wanting to get right back in. Sunday I just feel like Saturday after a hard work-week. For some reason, Monday morning at work is like the way-old days of coming in Monday after playing hard over the weekend. Too bad I can't just say, at work, "Oh man, I did so much peg-interferon over the weekend that I could hardly get out of bed this morning. I can't believe I did a bunch of ribavirin on top of it, too!" <grin> I think I'm about mid-stream sides-wise - which is a lot to be grateful for. Overall, I'm excited and optimistic to hope that it's working. Can't wait until 12 weeks to find out... PS: Any other under 10-dosers (or so) Class of 2007ers out there? Hay~ I don't envy you at all! I did my shots on Friday nights too. I never failled I always felt like sh.t within hours. Looking back I don't know how I ever survived work Saturday and Sunday mornings. I would go home and a shower would put me in bed for a few hours but one year olds don't tolerate that for long. Mondays and Tuesdays were always easier then about Wednesday or Thursday I felt terrible again. Just in time to inject again! I hope to hear that first test has you flying high. RHanson >Shot 5 of 48 Friday night (back to Friday nights). > [quoted text clipped - 25 lines] > >PS: Any other under 10-dosers (or so) Class of 2007ers out there? "Can't wait until 12 weeks to find out..." You shouldn't have to wait that long. Did you not do a 4 week test? The 4 week test indicates your likelihood of achieving SVR. A 2 log drop or better in viral load is a good sign. The 12 week test will tell you if you have no chance of SVR and should give up. Jack > Shot 5 of 48 Friday night (back to Friday nights). > [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > PS: Any other under 10-dosers (or so) Class of 2007ers out there? > "Can't wait until 12 weeks to find out..." > [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > Jack I believe Russian has geno-1 and is on the 48-week plan, therefore the early response test would be taken at 12 weeks instead of 4 weeks. -bg >> "Can't wait until 12 weeks to find out..." >> [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > I believe Russian has geno-1 and is on the 48-week plan, therefore the > early response test would be taken at 12 weeks instead of 4 weeks. -bg /////// Well I am geno-1a and I had a 4 week test. I guess there's no real point to it since we have to do the 48 weeks in any case but it's nice to know if you've had an EVR. The 12 week test has only negative predictive value, even for geno 1s. It'll tell you if you should give up but the 4 week EVR tells you if you have a decent chance of SVR. Jack > Well I am geno-1a and I had a 4 week test. I guess there's no real point to > it since we have to do the 48 weeks in any case but it's nice to know if > you've had an EVR. The 12 week test has only negative predictive value, even > for geno 1s. It'll tell you if you should give up but the 4 week EVR tells > you if you have a decent chance of SVR. Funny you should mention it... I went to the blood lab to get the bloods drawn, and I specifically asked if they had PCR on the orders. They didn't. I said it must be a mistake. They called the doctor. Eventually his nurse called me. She said they don't usually do PCR at the 4-week point. I reminder her that my baseline was from my general physical last January, and therefore the hep doctor had told me he would do a PCR at 4-weeks rather than delay start of treatment to get new bloods. Result: I spent the afternoon at the lab but in the end I got PCR added to the orders and faxed, of course along with the hep panels and TSH etc. That was one week ago. The results should be in - but I probably won't get them until Monday, this being Thanksgiving week. > I believe Russian has geno-1 and is on the 48-week plan, therefore the > early response test would be taken at 12 weeks instead of 4 weeks. -bg Good memory! Yes, G1 and 48 weeks, hence the "x/48" (hopefully) count-up. By the way, looking at the positive side, 5/48 could potentially mean I'm 10% of the way along to being cured. That's 5 times farther than I was after the first week! See, with the right statistical analysis, one can see that this treatment thing just zipping along! <g> (The scary thing is that I actually think in this way... it helps me to make the most of every interim step, even if that means making milestones out of molehills, or something like that <g>.) For example, assuming that all this will someday turn out be my history of how I got rid of the virus of course, and that I only need to do 48, then after my next, the 6th shot, I'll be 12.5% done. That's 25% further along than after the 5th shot. Okay, I'll stop now. |
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