My name is Terry and I am about to start "PEGATRON" treatment. I am looking
for anyone else who has been through the treatment or is familiar with it to
communicate with. My e-mail address is tmurph2@telus.net  .

I know that you are expected to take 1mg Prograf from now on.
How long after transplant does it take to get down to 1mg 2/day?
I am taking 2mg 2/day and I am at 2 years.

Hi group,
2 Months ago I was diagnosed with HVC and last wednesday 28 of april I started
treatment with PegIntron and Ribivarin. I don't know the genotype yet becouse
here in Portugal Medcare is fine but money is scarce so most of the resources

My doctors visits are now 3 months apart, but because I am taking Pegasus I
have to get labs every other week.  I get them done at a local lab and they
just fax the results to the doctor.  The days I do have to go to see the
doctor they make me come in 2 hours early to get blood ...

I am recently diagnosed HCV (GTp  1) and am facing a decision whether to go
the INF/RBV route. The deciding factor will be biopsy results. Since my
platelets are a bit low (110) his procedure was recommended - it scares the
crap outta me! Anybody had this?? What's it like?

where the sh.t did all this off the wall posting come from? this is a
serious subject.... who owns this ng?

This is what has been keeping me going for the past few weeks.  It is the
same thing that got me thru school years ago.  How do you eat an elephant?
One bite at a time.  When I was in school, this was my motto.  It was one
test at a time, one class, one paper.  Whatever was next was ...

Well, I'm back....for at least one night.  Have been having an awful time
with my server and tryin to get this newsgroup.  In fact, I just changed
servers, but not in effect yet.  Still, I tried to download one more time
and finally got it tonight.  Still going to go thru with ...

Hi everyone, a beginner's question:
I'm 53 and just had the results of an attempted blood donations and it
seems that as far as I can remember I was pretty wild 'bout 30 to 35
years ago.  Never being sick, a mild drinker but nothing else I didn't

Thanks for the tip on coughing. I a ton of drugs in the morning and they
make almost comatose. Now after my morning round I go out and try cough my
lungs out and I do feel better after. Thanks again!

Depression; You've all gone through it or are experiencing it. What
percentage of hepc-er's get depression when under treatment? Which treatment
causes the depression? To what degree do most people become depressed?
mild-suicidal.

After many sleepless nights (and having tried Tylenol PM & other OTC
medications), my doc gave me a prescription for Ambien. So far it is
working well.
Today I was informed that my insurance will only pay for 10/month as

Albert Einstein Quotes
     "Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which
differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even
incapable of forming such opinions."