HCV & College

[lile1223]

Anyone else out there a college student who is on treatment?  Just wondering how many credits you're able to handle and what your social life is like- how has it changed? Also what kind of insurance problems have you run into?

[rosebud57]

i am checking in after a long absence from the hep forum.

so my experience was I was in grad school  one year ago i was 4 weeks into tx. with only one semester to go  i was far along in the program so was able to skate through with minimal reading. concentration was difficult, short term memory and energy so low could barely make it to class (missed a lot when I could) was able to finish the semester, and write a thesis but it wasn't easy.

good luck to you.

[lile1223]

Thanks for all your responses.  I'm going to attempt a full course load this spring semester and I finish my treatment about a month into classes. I'm pretty anxious about this as I feel that the tx really messes with my concentration and my ceramics classes and responsibilities are pretty strenous.  I definitely feel some social anxiety as well but these two past semesters I've been taking it easy with 1-2 classes and I'm really getting bored.  It's encouraging to hear about other students who made through academia on tx and had success.  At the same time I know my work ethic and once I get started on any task I feel like I have to do to my absolute best ability(especially with art) and I get real run down.  I guess I just have to work on balancing my devotion to my grades and my health.

[TravelMom]

My daugher, 19...treated all through high school, maintained honors...now a sophmore in college and just finished 6 months of treatment again (Prove trial), and functioned fairly well...social life is quite normal, minus the alcohol...so it really depends of the individual and how much the sides effect them.  Good luck.

[Forseegood]

there was a poster here who was attending graduate school on the stuff (according to her, with a degree of difficulty, I might add)...so it probably varies from person to person, and like mystermeet said, what the subject matter is and how difficult is for you, and how bad the tx sides are presenting in you...I should think...

[dancegirl54]

My son tx'ed in high school, my daughter is in college and is considering tx in January, that would be her lightest year - course load wise.

[mremeet]

Depends on treatment duration and it certainly depends on both the curriculum and the school. If it's a degree in something like "Diversity Studies" at a local community college, then maybe concurrent tx is not so bad. If it's a degree in Aerospace Engineering at MIT, than maybe it's not so good (to put it lightly).