HOW BOUT THOSE SOX?? I don't know about you, but I'm going to bed at 7
PM every night THIS week and try to feel human again.....

"Your spleen may become enlarged and, in rare instances, may rupture
while taking Neupogen. The spleen is located in the upper left section
of your stomach area. Call your doctor right away if you have pain in
your left upper stomach area or left shoulder tip area. This pain

I'm thinking about another round of TX and the research that I've seen suggests that best hope for SVR is achieved if you can clear the virus by week 4. I cleared at week 12 during the first round and was clear for 48 weeks but relapsed later.
I've read about "Elmo's Method" which ...

For those that remember Elmo, AND those new here that don't. Here is our
Family album..
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I just got back from my (1st post-start-of-tx) liver Dr.'s appt and
got one of those "You're standing here and chatting with me--how is
that possible?" looks when my blood work revealed that, from 09-28
(When I started chemo) to 10-16 (when blood was last drawn) my

I'm a few days from 5 months into Tx.
Q#1: I think I damn well know the answer but is it normal to feel
"normal" in pulses between long stretches of strangeness?
Q#2:  Also I went to this link http://www.hepatitisdoctor.com/

Greetings and salutations to all:
I am about to start tx - Pegasys and Ribaviron. Will sex become a memory and
future thing during treatment. It sounds like, from reading your posts, that
getting one's self up and out of bed is all the getting up that can be

THE doctor told me i was taking to many vicodins  and that my blood was
getting toxic. So i slowed down because i always have pain in right adominal
region. my question is ..if your liver is getting inflammed and enlarged
well it cause the pain i am receiving right below 2or3rd  ...

Well Folks,
Tonight is the Last shot and Friday ends my treatment completely.
Total 70 weeks. I hope this is it, because this is it!!  I couldn't
take another week of it.

Hi.  My husband's Hep C has progressed to cirrhosis.  We are still
waiting on CT scan results, so we don't know the extent, just that the
inflammation level is 'stage 2' according to his doc.  10 years ago he
had stage II fibrosis, and he was 15 years clean and sober at that

    as I said before I had the last test (2 years after End Of Treatment)
redone.
Today I finally got results and it is UNDETECTABLE.
No way to explain, for me, how I felt when I read them. Of course I felt

Just a note to ya'all as a follow up to my earlier posting about the Docs
stopping treatment due to low platelet count.
The following week platelets were back up to 30 and BCLD said we'll get back
with  the program when I hit 50, and the two week tests should be this

Scand J Gastroenterol. 2007 Sep;42(9):1078-87. Links
Efficacy of zinc administration in patients with hepatitis C virus-
related chronic liver disease.
Himoto T, Hosomi N, Nakai S, Deguchi A, Kinekawa F, Matsuki M, Yachida

I have read that treatment is very difficult, but what makes it so?
Also, how many weeks must one be on before the doctor knows if it is
working or not?
Thanks.