First shot peg.

[dyce]

Ha everyone, I finally got started on the peg and riba today. I don't have time to talk but will be back later tonite!
                        Dyce

[NYgirl]

YAY your big day!  Make a big X on the calendar so you can keep track of where you are for your testing dates (which I was good at until the last year calendar got tossed LOL)

BEST of luck on a really easy side free night. I bet you are going to be FINE and be like the rest of us going oh...that's what it is, that wasn't nearly as bad as I thought!

Too many years of horror movies have conditioned us to be OVERLY anxious and picturing the worst!

I am sure you will do GREAT!

[Dale_Ray]

Good luck to you and I hope you have trouble free treatment days. If NYgirl goes out in left field on you just offer her a non-dairy fudge pop. She's addicted to them. She's also one of the best encouragers around. Good luck again and remember if anything weird happens it's normal or at least that is what the doctor keeps telling me. I notice I have a peculiar smell but I can't quite put my finger on it. Good luck to ya! Stay with humor and stay away from drama. Dale

[Mister beagle bailey]

Glad to hear from you and great news your starting tonight.  AS you already know my first night was filled with chills, fever and very flu like.  Just remember to take 2 tylenol before your shot, it really helps.  However, with your spirit you'll probably fly through with hardly no sx's.

         Beagle

[GoofyDad]

Dyce: Welcome aboard our ship of fools. A bonafide crew member!

<i>NYgirl: which I was good at until the last year calendar got tossed </i>

The 2006 ones should be available any day now.... two aisles over from the fudge pops ;-)

<i>Ray: I notice I have a peculiar smell but I can't quite put my finger on it.</i>

Is that 2 conditions or 1? Maybe solving the second will help with the first?

[Mister beagle bailey]

I had the smell and also the taste of metal.  One of my drs. said it was the anemia, now that they upped my procrit it seems to have gone away.  Will find out Tues. if my HGB went up from the 8.7 I was at.

            Beagle

[NYgirl]

Don't make him starting pushing the oar yet....let's put him in the luxury section of the ship for a while yet until we see how he does.


Dale were you being serious - you probably smell like the medications coming out of you through your pores...smells worse than any doggie doo even ;-)

[azgrl]

good luck with your shot...I was supposed to do my first shot tonight...but now I will have to wait 2 weeks.  Keep us posted on your sides if any.

Deb in AZ

[miss moneypenny]

best of luck tonight Dyce, if it is of any reassurance my first (and subsequent - did shot 5 tonight) shot gave me no troubles, quite a shock really, so I will keep my fingers crossed that it will be the same for you. Drink lots of water and watch a good movie.

xx

[illona]

My first shot is tonight also.
180

[FlGuy]

Good luck as you both start on the trip.  Dyce: awhile back you were awaiting bx results, how'd they come out.  I may have missed a post.

[Mister beagle bailey]

illona--Welcome on the trip of a life time.  Watch a good movie, drink plenty of water and have a bottle of tylenal handy. I'll be thinking of you tonight.

Miss---Glad your doing so good.  You sound like you could be on of the lucky ones who fly through treatment.

Beagle

[beamishboy]

Mr.Dyce: finally yu have begun "THE TREATMNT"-relief inna way,isn't it?? the waiting is over;let the virus Be Gone!!! Kick some Dragon @ss ! hope it goes easy for ya-GOODLUCK
Illona: so yu guys can be shotbuddys,treatmnt partners-remind each other of upcoming PCR's..NYgirl should be so lucky,aww she has a support "staff"....GoodLuck

[jojogirl]

went to the doc today .had all kinds of test weight gain just stress. oh well so I quess will have to stop eatting so much and stop getting so stressed. also doc trying to get me early ap to start treatment will hope everyones doing ok later jo

[fishdoc]

Welcome to the cohort!!  AT last, someone that has longer to go than I do!!  Maybe-whats yalls genotype?  Hope yours is as uneventful as mine has been...  

To can't remember who: I know we hear alot about sx, and most are the treatment, but clubbed penisss...?  (technical term for developing angles in an other wise straight instrument), surely thats not interferon!!!

OK now i'm still waiting to hear from Snook??
c

[dyce]

THANKS yOU GUYS. EVERYONE , YOU WEREN'T LIEING ABOUT THE SX'S. i HAD TO TAKE THE SHOT AND PINK PILLS AT 11.00 A.M THIS MORNING. The meds are working on my system pretty good now. Shnkin and a achin, sounds like a country song. Ha i' m cold and shaking right now but I 'll be allright. No nausea or any thing like that. Next fri. rest assured ,I'll be taken that shot about 8 oclock. Thanks guys goin to bed.
            dyce

[Mister beagle bailey]

Hang in there my friend, the first shot was like that for me too.  I found it to be the worse and Sun will be # 10 for me.  I found the pain pills very helpful for the aches and pains.  Tylenol worked great on the fever if you get it.  Will be thinking of you tonight.

      Beagle

[anise]

Welcome to the board!  Just did shot 3 yesterday.  One wonderful side effect I have had is that all of my joint pain has gone.  This surprised me as I thought it would be the opposite, lots of joint pain.  NP thought this was a good sign as she thought I am probably killing off the virus in my joints quickly, yeah.  Such a strange disease.

[fishdoc]

bom bom bom, another one bites the dust, and another one comes and another one goes..........#4 ..........good theme song, no?

[strator]

Just sing...
I see trees of green, red roses too
I see them bloom for me and you
And I think to myself, what a wonderful world

Okay, now let's practice that with a Riba attitude...

now sing with me...
I see trees pee green, and rotting fruit
I see them fly across the room
And I think to myself, but then I forget
I see rashes red and gasp for breath
This frikkin day, ain't over yet
And I think to myself, but then I forget...

Naw...not really...welcome both, don't go by my jaded outlook, I was up doin a rush job til 4, then they drained blood for my 24wk pcr this morning then I worked in the cold, and I'm still trying to put a new motor in my dryer(some of the tools I've used will never be found again, they went to riba purgatory). And I'm sittin here smilin so it Can't be that bad... truly.
May your path be clear and easy,
Don

[Mister beagle bailey]

Had a good laugh on your second verse, I needed it. THANKS

Your first verse took me back to NAM-----

   Bob

[GoofyDad]

toooooo funny!

[Forseegood]

what a wordsmith you are!  really good, had me all hopped up to jump on the treatment train!

[Snookmiester]

You looking for me? What'd I do this time? LOL
Been fishin like a madman, and having pretty good luck to boot. Actually caught 8 snook this week, the largest being well over 20lbs. Three tarpon, one weighing in just around 115lbs.

What's up Doc?

[Snookmiester]

Thread was closed below, but I just wanted to congratulate you on your accomplishment. Took big ones to gamble on the short course tx, with so few studies and all.......But you did it and prevailed!!!
I'm due for my 6 month PCR just about now also. Have the lab request here in front of me, just sort of been avoiding it. Of course I want to know, but at the same time, I'm in NO hurry!!! Feels good post tx, KNOWING your undetectable, doesn't it?

Say high to Mr & Mrs Busch for me!!! Sure seems like an eternity since I met up with them!!