stopping hep C tx!

[john0251]

HCV cleared at 2 months. Contd riba/peg combo. Now clear at eleven months. I am trying I have been 100% compliant. What is difference in stopping now or stopping treatment in 1 month?

[Dee1956]

Hi I apologize, I did understand what you were saying.  Due to my scrambled brain from interferon I read someone else story and thought I was writing to someone else who had only been on tx a short time.  I am so sorry, perhaps I need to take a break from here since I seem to be confused
Dee

[Jestewart]

Dee
hello and good morning
Jan 10th 2012 is my next Doc appointment, I started sept 20th 2011 and at day 10 I was UND, and have been since, I am on an treatment program from Merck Pharmacutial so they take my blood weekly and sometimes every two weeks,
but I am done as of then, I wish you well and  do belev that my earlier posting sys it all,

I wish you the very best n life Dee, and thank youfor thereply
Jeff Stewart
Vancouver Canad

[can-do-man]

" I will set safe guidelines like use condoms and wear gloves preparing food."

Gloves when cooking? Could you explain why for me?

[Dee1956]

Hi I have been on Incivek triple since Sept 2nd, I understand how you feel.  I am wondering, after going through the worst of it.  What made you decide to stop on the date that you picked (Jan 10th?)?  Just curious.
I just took my shot on Friday, I feel like hell, have no energy, want to quit but I won't.  I have a chance of getting rid of this horrible virus that is killing people every day.   Perhaps you are quitting because you don't have a lot of damage yet and your viral load was low.  There is a woman here who had a low viral load yet still had to treat for 72 months.  As a friend of mine here has told me "Hep c is benign compared to end stage liver disease"
I wish you the best.  
Dee

[micheall]

I feel your pain.I had hep c for 33 years.Had no problems.Healthy as hell.I started 2nd marriage and saw my hep doctor(been monitored last 10 rears),He says the older I get,the harder to get rid of.I am on my 2nd treatment in the last 18 months.I am now 63 and this is it.I do not expect to live forever.But as long as I have the virus,I am contagious,at a low level.I caught it from my 1st wife through intercourse and she got it through transfusion.I am a moderate drinker all these years and I am active.Knowing I am contagious I will set safe guidelines like use condoms and wear gloves preparing food.I will continue with 3 drug program and if failure,well so be it.I will live with a liver that is 50/50 infected and stayed monitored.

[Jestewart]

I will finish (I am doing this on my iPhone in bed)

This is a ticket to hell, I am stoping on the 10th of Jan 2012, here's why, I am tired of being sick (the 17% that are brutally sick)

I am 54, I am in late stage one, if I continue to eat well, a lot of fruit, veggies, Milk Thistle, exercise I will with out question live a highly productive life for at least 20-25 more years ( I will be 81-82) and probably longer,

There are alot of reasons why treatment is not for everybody all the time at that moment,
You really have to look at every angle, all situations, but just because u have hep c does not mean your going to
Die, I will probably die of 20 other things other the hep c, if I was 20-30 then I may consider doing treatment, but at 54 and having stage 1 and a low viral load it does not make sense, I don't drink, and eating well is so important,
But I would not repeat this treatment again.... Never, it is tje most toxic harm full thing I have ever done to my self, and the extreme loss of musle mass, this stuff is way stupid, ( for me at my age and my situation)

I wish u all tje very best and god bless you,
Plus after 14.5 weeks of being undetectable I may just stay that way, who knows?

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