Hi, before treating I had cyroglobulinemia which shows as a rash on my lower legs and I was told it is the body fighting the HCV. I also had edema. Since starting tx, both are gone, I am 5 months post tx and it has not come back so that means to me that the HCV is gone. The cyro was very painful when I had it.
I do feel better however I feel that is is going to take a little longer for some things to improve, i.e. memory, concentration. As my doc says, tx was a bear..
Good luck to you
Dee
I have not completed treatment yet. I am on week 43 of 48 weeks of triple med Tx with Interferon, Riba, and Incivek.
Before Tx I had joint and muscle aches, increasing fatigue, little energy or stamina.
Currently, in week 43, other than the side effects from the meds, which come and go, I actually do feel better than I did before treatment. Some days I have quite a bit of energy and motivation and I am getting some things done (slowly, LOL) that I had not tackled in years. I definitely can feel the difference and I am not even done with treatment (and I still have some side effects from treatment).
I have been UND since week 8 and I hope to stay that way and attain SVR.
So, even though I am not finished with Tx yet, I do feel better than before Tx and I am hoping that after I finish with Tx and no longer have the med side effects, that I will feel even better.
Just a hello summer. Nice to see you again and I hope all is going well..
Will.
I have not completed treatment yet, but most of my symptoms I was feeling before treatment are gone.
I love hearing all the positive feedback, thank you! And hello Will, hope all is well!!
in most ways i'm much better then before tx...even at 2/2 i had sx before tx..for years...i was so tired most of the time...i had skin stuff going on...i was so weak...now 8 months post tx i'm as strong as i was 10 years ago...i feel much better then before tx...i do have some tx issues going on but i think in a while most of that will get better....billy
I was completely asymptomatic prior to tx and feel essentially the same now at 4 months post eot. I do feel a bit more energy now, but that's hard to compare to prior to tx. I consider myself fortunate that I have no residual effects from 48 weeks of tx (Inf/Riba) that I can note at this time.
Hi Summer - I was acute with HCV two summers ago and most definitely had symptoms, mostly exhaustion and confusion. Post TX I feel better than ever aside from lingering eye problems, but by and large I have plenty of energy. I was worried most about recovering cognitive function which clearly was disabling and although my family would disagree, that is also back for the most part.
hi
Pretreatment my symptoms were mainly fatigue and red and puffy eyes and extreme tiredness at times, skin rash. I associated it with mainly working shift work and night shifts. it was beginning to get worst , specially after excercise I had restless nights and not refreshing sleep.
During Tx I suffered quite a lot with diziness, headache xtreme tiredness , brain fog,insomnia, lack of concentration ,low mood
These symptoms continued post treatment and now im nearly 5 month withouts meds and i am still not back to normal yet. only now some th diziness and headache has gone , but some days are still bad.,
i have improved a lot but still gets tired very easily.
I was seeing a chinese doctor and was doing acupuncture throughout my reatment and she was the only one who understood my symptoms.
I had hep sice the 80's. I realize now that I did have hep sides but at 2/2 it could have been worse. I had lots of trouble sleeping, and with night sweats several times a year. Also I work construction and I would be completely wiped out at the end of the day. I am almost 52 yrs now and I expect to be tired, but I am not anything like before, I am actually doing extra work after work. I didn't have enough energy to do that for the last several years. I do feel better most of the time, but not unless something triggers an old memory do I think about it. I have no regrets about tx at all!!
My situation being post transplant is a bit different. Hep c is more aggressive after a transplant. I don't think I would have noticed any of the symptoms that I had a few months prior to tx if I hadn't already had the experience of my liver deteriorating. The symptoms were a difference of endurance, simply in a few months time, I noticed I couldn't walk as far or for as long.
There were a couple of other minor things~ enough to scare me into doing tx as soon as I could.
That has indeed been reversed.