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HELP!! Feeling Sick All the Time!?! Vivitrol shot?!?

So, I've been diagnosed with Acute Hepatitis C since I was 17 yrs old due to drug abuse. I am now 22 yrs old and have only been drug free for about 6 months. My levels have remained the same since I was 17 & it is very low. Well, My Judge and Probation Officer court ordered me to get on the Vivitrol Naltrexone Extended Release Injectable Suspenion. Basically it's a shot you get once a month in your bottom & it blocks opiates & alcohol out of the system for thirty days. I was on it for about 3 maybe 4 months. After I stopped getting the shot, I noticed that I've woken up sick feeling almost everyday after it was supposed to be out of my system & I have not taken any drugs. My doctor told me that the shot has been known to helping lowering the enzyme levels with people who have hep c. Well I decided to stop taking it because I found out that the FDA does not know what the shot could do to a unborn child and that it can cause suicidal thoughts... which I did start to develop and became scared. So, I came to the conclusion that maybe I should not be on it and that they just don't know all the facts about what the vivitrol shot would/can do to someone and I don't want to be a test dummy for the government. So I stopped getting it. but now I wake up feeling real exhausted, nauseas & fatigued. I usually cannot eat until after I've been up for a few hours. When I start to eat sometimes I start to feel more sick. My body is usually sore about 7 out 7 days of the week. I am starting to think that the Vivitrol shot made me sick or that it could just be my Hep C is finally catching up with me?? I've never been treated for Hep C.  I have no one to talk with about these things because I don't know anyone else with Hep C. Has anyone else been on this shot and feel this way? Or Do most people with Hep C feel this way in the mornings? Should I be worried about this?
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I know this is an old question but I found it so I’m sure other people do too. So I’m gonna answer it. I don’t have hep c but everything you are describing I have felt since getting the shot, and the weird thing as it has worn off (30 days since getting it now) I been getting sicker and worse. Body aches when I wake up, so sore, I can’t eat without weed or I feel sick, sweaty, freezing even though it’s 116 degrees outside. Weak, lethargic, no motivation, I can barely walk I’m in such mental and physical anguish. The days drag by because I can’t sleep. Every day feels like it’s 2 days long because of lack of sleep and complete boredom. It’s called sobriety and the shot. Together they are an absolute hell on earth.
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317787 tn?1473358451
Hi I forgot to mention that if you do a search, by clicking the magnifying glass icon at the top of this pates, you can find a lot of information.
It was approved in 2010 and is supposed to help opiate and alcohol addiction by blocking the receptors.  I hope this helps
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317787 tn?1473358451
Hi! Congratulations on being sober, that is a huge accomplishment.
I had never heard of Vivitrol so looked it up.
This forum might help you:

http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Addiction-Substance-Abuse/Vivitrol-for-opiate-addiction/show/1891083

I hope this helps you
Take Care
Dee
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683231 tn?1467323017
Hi Ash

Sorry I don't know about Vivitrol but congratulations on your sobriety that is a huge success and a giant step in improving your health!

Extremely tiredness and feeling exhausted as well as nausea can all be symptoms of hep c definitely.

The good news is there are new treatments just approved in the last year and the newest in just this past October Harvoni that is just one pill a day, with minimal side effects for most, very effective and very short treatment possibly as short as 8 or 12 weeks or 24 weeks if the patient has advanced liver disease. There has never been a better time to treat hep c so see your liver specialist get evaluated for treatment and get cured of hep c.

There is also help to pay for medicine from the maker of Harvoni at My Support Path
http://www.mysupportpath.com
1-855-769-7284

Good luck welcome to the group and good luck
Lynn
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