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Hepatitis C Treatment - 6 Months Past Treatment and Beyond
What was your treatment drugs? How long since treatment ended? Has Hepatitis C treatment improved your life
and how?
and how?
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Just passed the six month point. Felling good, generally. I do have days when I over do and was thinking maybe I was relapsing, but discovered that, just like when I was on meds, I can overdo and tire out, so started resting the next day, if that happened, and, voila, back to my 'new' self, with energy,etc.
also, many have reported that this can take possibly a year, til all of the meds are out of our systems, so I am cutting myself some slack!
It still amazes me when I find myself thinging "xxx needs doing" and I get up and do it without a second thought! I guess that really shows me that I am virus free!
Mostly, by now, I feel great....I can do errands, come home, rest for a few minutes, then move on to my next project. Wow! How many years?
Thanks for this thread.
Pat
also, many have reported that this can take possibly a year, til all of the meds are out of our systems, so I am cutting myself some slack!
It still amazes me when I find myself thinging "xxx needs doing" and I get up and do it without a second thought! I guess that really shows me that I am virus free!
Mostly, by now, I feel great....I can do errands, come home, rest for a few minutes, then move on to my next project. Wow! How many years?
Thanks for this thread.
Pat
This was a life changing experience for me. Like others have said, people can be so judgemental and I lost 2 what I thought were friends. I really appreciate the people who supported me both in my life and here on the forum. My old boyfriend, who I got the hcv from, died from hepatic cancer, it was a horrible death. I didn't even know I had it until a year and a half ago, I just assumed I must not have since nothing ever showed up on blood panels. Thank goodness I have taken good care of myself over the years, and there was no noticable damage to my liver. I made some new friends on this forum, I couldn't have made it without you. I have a better appreciation of life.
Sandi
Sandi
Hi Faith for Healing.....am so sorry you continue you to have such
horrible problems from the Tx ...However you sharing it so honestly has helped me as it is pretty near my experience...same sort of age, same treatment, same ludicrously valiant efforts to keep working etc.....
I would feel completely nuts if I thought it was just a figment of my imagination,
so thanking you for sharing this and am sending you all best wishes for better days.
horrible problems from the Tx ...However you sharing it so honestly has helped me as it is pretty near my experience...same sort of age, same treatment, same ludicrously valiant efforts to keep working etc.....
I would feel completely nuts if I thought it was just a figment of my imagination,
so thanking you for sharing this and am sending you all best wishes for better days.
I treated with sol/oly starting last Nov. for 12 weeks.The first blood work while treating showed <15 just several weeks in, 8 weeks into treatment showed undetected and I have been that since! So now its been 6 months since SVR and I do feel a lot better, but I have a very low vitamin D count. IT was 12. I have since learned that Vitamin D should be taken while treating! I am not quite where I want to be because I have had a lot of muscle cramps and joint pain but that can be symptoms of Vit D deficiency. So I am on 50,000 a week of vitamin D2 and 5000 a day of vitamin D3. I am hoping to get this out of the way too but it is a slow process I found out to get it built back up. The moral of the story is if you did not get out in the sun much when you had Hep C then you need to check your vitamin D level so you can find out if that may now be a concern while treating and after.
That was the same conclusion I came to. It sounds like your doctor put you on prescription grade D-2? You do want to be careful taking more vitamins than recommended without your doctors knowledge.
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Ya know, life is really interesting! I have come to believe that there is a reason for everything. Call it destiny - some can decide to turn their back on it...
I usually grab my destiny with full gusto... that old saying about lemons and lemonade, right! I know so many people who are so lucky going thru life looking for whata, coulda, shoulda!
I was diagnosed while living a great life in San Francisco! The life of an artist! At 40 I was running and single gear cycling the hills of SF! Fit as a horse! The city had no funds to treat and told me what healthy things to do and I did them.
I was called to help my parents in PA. PA had tons of money to play with peoples health. Once disabled, and fighting for years I won disability. With my parents help and destiny have a beautiful home. Lovely things in it. I live a simple life but miss many things!
My big destiny was to save my parents life. I won't go into details but it was the reason I was brought home!
Becoming an advocate for oneself and others is an amazing tool to have. Most doctors really appreciate it and a few fear us. Maybe that is the greatest gain from treatment!