long term side effects after taking pegasy/ribrivan

[beachmomma04]

I'm 44 yr old female dx with Hep C genotype 1a stage 3 by liver biopsy, did treatment for 72 weeks 3 months after treatment i relapsed.  it will be 6 months on feb 19 since my last treatment.  I still have serve muscle and joint pain, fatigue, insomnia, white blood count still low, chronic diarrhea, shortness of breath, and can't REMEMBER things (brain fog).   My doctor told me today that my illness wasn't from the treatment but from ANXIETY DISORDER, fibromyalgia,ibs and that i needed to see a psychiatry consultation.  Is there anyone that has Hep C and took treatments having long term problems? OR is it just me!!!  Please Help and let me know

[nygirl7]

Wow Jasmine as the expression gies out of the mouths of babes:)

You go girl, I never really thought about the possibility that a lot of our problems pre or post treatment could have been caused by our livers not disposing of toxins properly. For years and years!  

Now that, to me, sounds SO feasible!!!!

[JasmineT]

Oh my, the conversation got fun while I was writing all that.  I think I have something to do now.

[JasmineT]

I am not sure I should post this because I cannot recommend it.  For all I know it could cause damage so please take this with great skepticism and do the research I never did and consider your own health.

Before I was diagnosed with hep c, I had lots of symptoms with digestive issues, brain fog, joint and muscle issues, issues sleeping, itching, fatigue, etc.  I went to various docs for different issues with no cure.  I started researching various annoying symptoms over time and noticed a common theme of liver function coming up.

I tried dr cabot's liver diet and it helped a little but not something I could try long term.  Since that did help a little, I decided to buy a 7 day Liver detox from whole foods.  I started taking omega 3 sometime around then too.  The detox actually helped my symptoms a lot.  So did the omega 3.

A detox when you are other meds or even just based on your own health may not be safe so you should talk to your doc before even thinking about this.  I am again not recommending anyone try this.  Still it is interesting and since your liver was under attack by hep c it may also point to a possibility that your liver not 100% eliminating toxins.

[willbb]

Who the master  bater??  :O-)

[nygirl7]

Seems an inordinate amount of newcomers today questioning interferon huh?

Out of the blue. I can expect my pie-hole friend any minute now. Lol.

[willbb]

As far as the thread you speak of I though I saw it was closed  or removed ..That was my only comment and I added "thankfully " as my own personal opinion on that thread was  glad to see it go...however again I speak only for myself...