Incivik; Triple Therapy; Need help & honest Answers!

[ontrackbasis]

I am just getting ready to start triple therapy on July 1, 2013. I am scared with what I am reading. My Dr is starting me off with all 3 at once, and has chosen Incivik,. On top of being concerned with the pegasys n Riba now I am concerned with this Incivik.. Any help would be great... honesty too... Apparently the Pegasys & Riba will be for 9 months and the Incivik will just be for my first 12 weeks on treatment...

I am wondering if I will be able to work as my job can become very demanding at times.

Thank you to all of you who share your stories... I am getting tired of people trying to tell me how I feel who have never personally done treatment.

[CD8]

***living my life withOUT HepC.  lol

[his3707]

Most important.. Stick to the dosing schedule for the first 12 weeks with incivek.  Set alarms, pill boxes, whatever it takes.  I worked a part time job, it was very rough but without that job time would have gone by so slow.  Keep busy no matter how you feel.  Just keep going.  I am 15 months post treatment after doing 48 weeks.  Treatment was a success and it is starting to be hard to remember how difficult it was for me.  watch your blood levels carefully, anemia can sneak up on you fast.  That can make you feel the worst!   Best Wishes!

[ontrackbasis]

Thanks for your info. I am taking the two Riba pills per day... one in morning and one in evening which are each 600mg. These darn incivek pills are what are really making me hurt I thnk. I have to take 6 of those a day (2 at a time) which each pill is 350mg... for a total of 2100mg per day.

I have one week behind me thank God. However, I have been noticing some problems when I goto bathroom... some discomfort... kinda like crapin fire! I have noticed it got better tho past 2 days which I think may be from the amount of fat intake with each dose. I increased it to 25-30g of fat instead of the recommended 20.

Anyhow, thanks so much for your response. Greatly appreciiated,

[dontworry_behappy1]

You see the magnifying glass in the heading of this forum.  It's on the left.  If you click on that magnifying glass you will see where you can search to forum for answers.  There are 100S of posts about the bathroom side effects of incivek.  Some going into lengthy detail.  It would benefit you to read some of those post about relief you can obtain from side effects of incivek.

The more you know about this treatment and its sides before hand...the better off you will be.  It's not easy and demands your attention.

DWBH

[Dee1956]

I think you are so right, the more fat the better though if you get a specific problem please ask,
Sometimes during tx I was too sick to search and needed the help of my friends.
Hang in there

[Dee1956]

Hi I typed in Incivek help and found this, not very good at this but will try to find more
http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Hepatitis-C/incivek/show/1657839