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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Hepatitis / February 2007hey elmo ...
... could you relate once again what you did to clear the virus? I'd appreciate the refresher. Thanks. Yeah, I will. But it'll have to be tonight or tomorrow. I don't have time for being 'serious' this morning. ahahahahahhaa Seriously, I'm not in a very good mood this morning....my next door neighbor suffered a stroke yesterday afternoon that's put her in ICU. She's paralyzed and can't speak. And last night I found out a close friend of mine just got out of the hospital with liver failure and kidney shut-down after his wife ran out on him two days after Christmas. 2007 has been a pretty suck-a.s year so far. elmo http://community.webtv.net/elmoemerson/DocElmosHepFile http://community.webtv.net/elmoemerson/TheFamilyAlbum > Yeah, I will. But it'll have to be tonight or tomorrow. I don't have > time for being 'serious' this morning. ahahahahahhaa Seriously, I'm [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > http://community.webtv.net/elmoemerson/TheFamilyAlbum sorry. I'm sorry too, Stretch. I was in a rush to get out the door and go to work yesterday. I started my third and final round of tx off with doing daily Infergen the first week, then combined both daily Infergen and a weekly shot of Pegasys for the next several weeks, just til I didn't think I could handle it anymore and still get to work. O course, I was doing 7 caps of ribavirin (1400 mg) each day along with Amantadine. I continued tx without the daily Infergen for a couple of weeks, then did both daily Infergen and Pegasys for another couple of weeks, just til I collapsed in the foyer at work. After that, I did Pegasys, ribavirin and Amantadine til I finished 11 months of tx. The combination of all those drugs knocked the hell out of the virus, got my viral load down pretty fast....I was undetectable at about week 9. I know that because my labs were being taken, including pcr, on a frequent basis. Also, I took anti-d's for depression (being depressed is a negative indicator of reaching SVR). I also forced myself to laugh alot....I listened to and played music as much as I could....tried to do things for others and stay out of my personal misery...and got in touch with my spiritual side. That's how I got my SVR, Stretch. :-) elmo http://community.webtv.net/elmoemerson/DocElmosHepFile http://community.webtv.net/elmoemerson/TheFamilyAlbum > I'm sorry too, Stretch. I was in a rush to get out the door and go to > work yesterday. [quoted text clipped - 27 lines] > > http://community.webtv.net/elmoemerson/TheFamilyAlbum Thank you. Will probably be trying something similar soon. Re: hey elmo ... Group: alt.support.hepatitis-c Date: Fri, Feb 16, 2007, 2:11pm (CST+1) From: firstmoto@gmail.com (Stretch) elmoemerson@webtv.net wrote: I'm sorry too, Stretch. I was in a rush to get out the door and go to work yesterday. I started my third and final round of tx off with doing daily Infergen the first week, then combined both daily Infergen and a weekly shot of Pegasys for the next several weeks, just til I didn't think I could handle it anymore and still get to work. O course, I was doing 7 caps of ribavirin (1400 mg) each day along with Amantadine. I continued tx without the daily Infergen for a couple of weeks, then did both daily Infergen and Pegasys for another couple of weeks, just til I collapsed in the foyer at work. After that, I did Pegasys, ribavirin and Amantadine til I finished 11 months of tx. The combination of all those drugs knocked the hell out of the virus, got my viral load down pretty fast....I was undetectable at about week 9. I know that because my labs were being taken, including pcr, on a frequent basis. Also, I took anti-d's for depression (being depressed is a negative indicator of reaching SVR). I also forced myself to laugh alot....I listened to and played music as much as I could....tried to do things for others and stay out of my personal misery...and got in touch with my spiritual side. That's how I got my SVR, Stretch. :-) elmo http://community.webtv.net/elmoemerson/DocElmosHepFile http://community.webtv.net/elmoemerson/TheFamilyAlbum Thank you. Will probably be trying something similar soon. /////////// The hard part is conning your doc into giving you scripts for both Infergen and Peg at the same time, then getting your insurance company to allow your pharmacy to fill both scripts. It also helps it you're getting your labwork done by an outside lab......that way you can check off the section that is for pcr on the way over to the lab whenever the doc forgets to or whenever you want to know your viral load. I just happened to want to know my viral load every time I had labs drawn (just til I went 'undetectable'). :-) elmo http://community.webtv.net/elmoemerson/DocElmosHepFile http://community.webtv.net/elmoemerson/TheFamilyAlbum |
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