Something a very experienced nurse told me about Interferon is that it seems
to help the body start to try and clear just about everything that has
'insulted' it from years past.  Perhaps this fairly common respiratory thing
is part of that.  I wondered about bruises appearing on my body, but I
didn't remember bumping into things.  She explained that these deep bruises
usually never do resolve but are still present years after the trauma took
place.  But she said, long time Interferon therapy seems to reset the body
somehow to recalibrate and try to expell the hard cases from your body.
Like a deep bruise from a knee to thigh collision I got one day during a
rough rugby game that side-lined me for a couple of months in high school.
That bruise worked itself to the surface of my thigh, and then I remembered
the incident.  It and some others, including deep set small spines from
cactus I had stepped in when I was a kid (I swear this happened) came out of
my body later on in tx.  It was quite phenomenal.

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