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post treatment side effects
What longterm side effects after treatment is anyone experiencing?
For me the long term effects are a life free of HCV. I am geno type 2b and did 6 moths of interferon/Riba. I am now 6 months post treatment and feel great, better than I have in years.
During treatment I had vision problems mostly blurry vision and was not able to read without reading glasses, my eyesight was fine before. It seems I developed a mild astigmatism so now I have my first pair of prescription glasses (bifocals) and with those I can see fine. I still sometimes have some joint pain in my hands but that has been diminishing. My skin, nails and a hair are all healthier post treatment, I had major insomnia before treating and now I sleep great. My metabolism has changed, before treatment I was real skinny no matter how much I ate and now I seem to be gaining weight which for me is a good thing.
I am glad I did the treatment and it was successful and now I am glad to have my life back. I just wish I would have been diagnosed sooner.
During treatment I had vision problems mostly blurry vision and was not able to read without reading glasses, my eyesight was fine before. It seems I developed a mild astigmatism so now I have my first pair of prescription glasses (bifocals) and with those I can see fine. I still sometimes have some joint pain in my hands but that has been diminishing. My skin, nails and a hair are all healthier post treatment, I had major insomnia before treating and now I sleep great. My metabolism has changed, before treatment I was real skinny no matter how much I ate and now I seem to be gaining weight which for me is a good thing.
I am glad I did the treatment and it was successful and now I am glad to have my life back. I just wish I would have been diagnosed sooner.
I am with rainpath, I have done a total of 4 years and 4 months of interferon based treatment. It was 11 years in between the last time and the recently finished 48 weeks of Incivek triple treatment. In those 11 years and the month since EOT this time, I do now and always felt completely healthy and energetic, normal, after treatment. I am sorry for those not so lucky, but I want people considering treatment to know that there are those that do not have lingering effects...
Mark
Mark
I dont think that is accurate since doing a google of Hep C & cure will bring about all sorts of Big Pharma searching for the NEXT big treatment with 100% success rate... so if we were all "cured" and not just SVR then why more mega bucks being put into for a search for a "cure"???
btw, whatever it is that I am, always felt 100% worse than before treatment and I was feeling amazing before treatment. Cycling the hills of San Francisco on a fixed gear bicycle, running the hills on a course of a world class marathon weekly, etc. Now I am happy if I can get out of bed for 5 hours at a time.
Glad for the "cure"!
Glad for the "cure"!
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