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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Hepatitis / April 20073 hours until 1st shot
Well this should be a night to remember. Got Tornado watches and warnings all around with dark skies , thunder and lightening here and in 3 hours I'm going to give myself the first shot. Got clean linens on the bed with a bucket sitting next to it. Lotsa ice water and tea close by. Eye drops, a back scratcher,(mechanical, not of the fairer sex) and lotion. House is clean and fridge is loaded with fresh fruit, meats and ice cream. Got nuts in the cupboard and paper towels and reading material. Phone #s of friends and family in case of ??. Dog is fed and watered . I know that I am probably in the overkill mode but wtf, it has helped with the nerves. If Ya'all know of anything else I should be doing, don't hesitate to say. I'll keep posting as I get through this 1st one. DrDigger Kansas City, Mo Tylenol or ibuprophen for the sweats and cramps (flu like symptoms) take them before you take the plunge. cactus jammies ============== > Well this should be a night to remember. Got Tornado watches and warnings > all around with dark skies , thunder and lightening here and in 3 hours [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > DrDigger > Kansas City, Mo > Well this should be a night to remember. Got Tornado watches and warnings > all around with dark skies , thunder and lightening here and in 3 hours [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > DrDigger > Kansas City, Mo Your best bet is to sleep through the worst of the sides, unless you're really, really really curious. So, have an early dinner, realx <hahahahaha> for the evening (no caffiene). Then, about an hour before you'd normally go to sleep, take a Tylenol and a Gravol, and take your drugs out of the fridge-- it's stings if the interferon is cold. A hour later, take Dog for a short walk, do your shot, go to bed, and you should be in dreamland by the time the headache sets in. Strap on your helmet, you're in for the ride of your life. And you're going to do just fine. The first shot is terrifying, but the fear is the worst of it. Haven't noticed your posts before... are you new to alt.support.hepatitis-c? If so, we've got all kinds of questions like, "What's your genotype? How long do you think you've had hep C? When were you diagnosed? Are you into enemas?" but we're much too polite to ask. Oh sorry, forget that last one... I was thinking of Arthur... Waterspider I have been around about 1 1/2 yrs, since I was diagnosed. Ya'all have answered some questions for me, but I usually posted with my name. Just gave myself the shot. The folks at the VA didn't show or tell me about the Redipen, they showed me how to use a syringe. One call verifying the dosage and I figured it out. I'm a Type 1, was diagnosed about a year and a half ago. Probably got it during a blood transfusion during the early 70's, but could have been other issues, who knows? I'll be around a while, I'm gonna whup this thing one way or the other. DrDigger (Glenn) >> Well this should be a night to remember. Got Tornado watches and warnings >> all around with dark skies , thunder and lightening here and in 3 hours [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] > > Waterspider > Your best bet is to sleep through the worst of the sides, unless you're > really, really really curious. They say everyone's experience is different, and that appears to include me. The shot is completely uneventful for me except for a little bit of rapid-shallow breathing that is non-biological - it's just that needles were what got me into this mess. Yeah, it's not IV, there's no rubber hose <g>, and no-one ready to steal your wallet if you pass out, but still, it's a needle and it brings back memories. I take it around 7-9pm Friday night. I wake up Saturday feeling just fine. I cruise through the morning. Shortly after noon, I start feeling exhaustion, anxiety, spacey, and some other feeling that there's no word for. It hits bottom around 4pm and starts to get better. However, trying to go out Saturday night can be disastrous. I have finally worked out that I can go to a movie or play if I keep thinking it's no different than watching tv at home. Sunday, I'm tired - maybe back to 50%. If I've focused on taking it easy all weekend and getting a lot of sleep, I'm 90% Monday except for a few short sudden weird-outs that last a few minutes. Beyond that, I'm just dealing with the Riba - short fuse, intolerant of minor frustrations, morning nausea, evening insomnia, rashes... but there are ways of dealing with each of those. an anti-depressant and an anti-anxiety med really does work wonders with those symptoms :) Celexa chilled me out and helped me to not over react to every little thing. Xanax took the edge off when I got really hyper, plus it helped me sleep really well (maybe almost too well :) ). It also helped with restless legs syndrome. I've weaned off the Celexa, but still am using Xanax about half the time to help me get to sleep. Otherwise it's 6am before I'm dozing off. That's driving me nuts... will talk to my dr about it soon. Sara >> Your best bet is to sleep through the worst of the sides, >> unless you're really, really really curious. [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > insomnia, rashes... but there are ways of dealing with each of > those. >Well this should be a night to remember. Got Tornado watches and warnings >all around with dark skies , thunder and lightening here and in 3 hours I'm [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >DrDigger >Kansas City, Mo There's no such thing as "overkill" when readying for the first shot ;-) Take a 500mg Tylenol an hour before the shot. And have another one ready for morning, just in case. Have a bath towel handy to drape over your pillow if you really get hit with the sweats - not uncommon for first-shooters. You're unlikely to experience nausea to the point of barfing. Even at the worst of the sides, I never felt like driving the porcelain bus. Cheers - and good luck with the ride :-) /greyhackles Towel is now in place >>Well this should be a night to remember. Got Tornado watches and warnings >>all around with dark skies , thunder and lightening here and in 3 hours [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] > > /greyhackles > Well this should be a night to remember. Got Tornado watches and warnings > all around with dark skies , thunder and lightening here and in 3 hours I'm [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > DrDigger > Kansas City, Mo Sounds like your ready for the tornadoes and thunder storms. :) I've been listening to tornado sirens all day today, barely got any rain at the house, all around they've had flooding. Over kill doesn't hurt, shopping won't be as much fun later on. You've got your ice cream and that's important, I couldn't get enough while on tx. Don't worry ahead of time, some people don't have that rough of a time. It doesn't hurt to be prepared, but go into this expecting the best, a good attitude is important. Keep in touch, it helps to talk to people that have been through this before. I've been through it twice and will probably go through it again before too long. Best of luck to you. Don't worry about tx right now, worry about the storms. Dwight (sitting here waiting out the storms in north Texas) > Well this should be a night to remember. Got Tornado watches and warnings > all around with dark skies , thunder and lightening here and in 3 hours I'm [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > DrDigger > Kansas City, Mo It might be bad but don't assume the worst. My 1st shot was the worst of the 48, but not really that bad. I gave it to myself in the doctors office about 3:00 PM but didn't feel the effects till about 10:00 PM and that amounted to chills and fever for about 2 hours till I shivered myself to sleep and slept the rest of the night. The effects from subsequent shots were all very minor for me. The long term overall effects of TX were worse for me (nausea, loss of appetite, fatigue, low WBC, increased blood sugar and iron levels, rashes, hair loss) so don't beat yourself up unnecessarily.............TX will probably do that for you. Good Luck! Tom On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:25:06 -0500, "g" <drdigger@sbcglobal.net>, in message ID <llwXh.62$HX7.5@newssvr19.news.prodigy.net>, in the >Well this should be a night to remember. Got Tornado watches and warnings >all around with dark skies , thunder and lightening here and in 3 hours I'm [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >DrDigger >Kansas City, Mo You call THAT overkill. I bought a new fridge for storing tx meds as my ancient one was becoming unreliable. Paracetemol are useful (I think they're called Tylenol in the USA but check with someone about that). Gotta do better than that. I bought a 1.7 cu/ft fridge so I could store my meds in the bedroom and prying eyes and fingers wouldn't be able to get nosy. DrDigger > On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:25:06 -0500, "g" <drdigger@sbcglobal.net>, in > message ID <llwXh.62$HX7.5@newssvr19.news.prodigy.net>, in the [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > Paracetemol are useful (I think they're called Tylenol in the USA but > check with someone about that). My apologies, was not meant to come off as one upmanship. More like great (and really nervous) minds think alike DrDigger > Gotta do better than that. I bought a 1.7 cu/ft fridge so I could store my > meds in the bedroom and prying eyes and fingers wouldn't be able to get [quoted text clipped - 28 lines] >> Paracetemol are useful (I think they're called Tylenol in the USA but >> check with someone about that). On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:25:06 -0500, "g" <drdigger@sbcglobal.net>, in message ID <llwXh.62$HX7.5@newssvr19.news.prodigy.net>, in the >Well this should be a night to remember. Got Tornado watches and warnings >all around with dark skies , thunder and lightening here and in 3 hours I'm [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] >DrDigger >Kansas City, Mo I replied to your post before reading the other replies. Looks like I was right about it being called Tylenol. >On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 18:25:06 -0500, "g" <drdigger@sbcglobal.net>, in >message ID <llwXh.62$HX7.5@newssvr19.news.prodigy.net>, in the [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] >I replied to your post before reading the other replies. Looks like I >was right about it being called Tylenol. Yup, "Paracetamol" and "Tylenol" are equivalent Acetaminophen products. That said, if you pop into a druggist in the UK - or Canada, for that matter - you can buy Paracetamol products that include 5mg of Codeine, over the counter/no 'script required. The same isn't true in the USA. We're such paranoid nitwits Over Here ;-) Cheers /greyhackles On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:58:58 -0400, greyhackles <greyhackles@NOSPAMyahoo.com>, in message ID <lrmv23l2j7h4spcql5igrcsai2n48q7vja@4ax.com>, in the newsgroup alt.support.hepatitis-c wrote: >Yup, "Paracetamol" and "Tylenol" are equivalent Acetaminophen products. That >said, if you pop into a druggist in the UK - or Canada, for that matter - you [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > >Cheers I'm surprised you can't get them over the counter in the USA. I know there is/was one called Paracodol over here and they're meant to be a bit stronger than standard paracetemol. I took them for 24 hours or so after having a wisdom tooth out once. Don't know if they were stronger or not. They dealt with the pain just fine but I wouldn't say I felt stoned at all. |
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