Interferon Side Effects . Are they severe?

[ClaudeM]

Hello,

I am about to start the treatment with interferons. I was thinking if anyone could tell me about the side effects of it. Are they bad? How to deal with them? I would really like to talk with someone about this.

[stef2011]

dear clude can you please link hbv patients stories directly, peginterferon sides effects are complitely different according to the disease and very mild on hbv compared to hcv and other diseases.

[ClaudeM]

PDATE:

I finished creating my research / book with the help of steadyhealt h and it's completely free.

It's called "Dealing with Interferon Side Effects: Patient Stories". And it has...well, exactly what is says. Interviews from other patients who were on Interferon.

I also created and added another booklet called "Interferon-About" which is a collection of useful links i gathered through my research.

I hope this is of some help to someone:

http://www.steadyhealt h.com/interferon-side-effects

Thanks.

Claude

[Dee1956]

Hi you may want to look at this welcome page, it talks about Hep B and the medications that are used and the flu like effects of interferon

http://www.medhelp.org/tags/health_page/12736/Hepatitis-B/HepB-Introduction--Welcome-Page?hp_id=34

Good luck
Dee

[Dee1956]

I'm sorry this popped up as a question on my home page, I did not realize it was for HepB

[stef2011]

sorry i meant
also you can t predict if you will have sides, you have to try it and see

[stef2011]

on hbv patients sides are tollerable, all members here reported little sides, fatigue as the most heavy, the other sides can all be managed

also you can predict if you will have sides, you may have none or have few but only fatigue is difficult to correct

[stef2011]

this is hbv community, not hcv, we dont use riba it doesn t work on hbv and pegintf has so much less sides on hbv patients, it cannot be compared to hcv patients

[Dee1956]

Hi everyone is different.  Are you just going to be taking interferon and riba?  It would help to know what you will be taking.
Could you give a little more information? Like your Geno type? Result of biopsy?  How long will you be treating?
Thank you
D

[Jeff912000]

nothing a couple of panadol cannot fix.  best to take by weight though.