update

[susan400]

I finished on the 10th of Sept. and today is Sep. 29.  It's hard to believe that it's been 19 days.  I think that this post treatment time has gone by quickly.  I haven't had any big after treatment issues, but I've been very busy catching up on things.  I'm hoping that the next few months until my 3 mon post, go by this quickly so that I don't think about it.  The only thing I wish would 'come back online' as far as how I feel, is my brain.  I swear I feel like if I had a brain, I'd be dangerous..., LOL.  I keep on forgetting like where I put a certain item, sort of drives you nuts wasting a bunch of time looking for this or that that you 'lost'.  Fortunately, I know the major important things and that hasn't been forgotten!  I thought I'd lost my Kindle and was freaking out because it was my Dad's (who passed away last Oct.), and I had got it given to me when he died.  I normally read it every day at the gym because it makes the boring exercise time go by and I don't feel like I'm exercising.  Like for example, I can put the Kindle on the elliptical and do  45 min. on it and don't even realize I've burned over 600 cal.  Or put it on the treadmill or stationary bike, etc.  Anyway, I was so upset with myself at misplacing it.  I called the gym this morning and they searched around and thank God, some honest person had turned it in.   But, my brain does this kind of stuff like all the time.  Like putting the already opened salad dressing (the has to refrigerated type), into the cupboard, instead of back into the refrigerator.., which needless to say-has to be thrown out then.  Hopefully, this will improve with more time off TX.  I do the Luminosity and play Scrabble and word games and one would think with all the reading I do-that those things would help.   Susan400

[dontworry_behappy1]

I wish nothing but the best for you.   I do believe your memory issues will improve with time.  I don't care how many treatments you've had.   The difference will be if you achieve SVR.   And if not....try again.  Getting Hepatits C out of your system will contribute to your health and wellbeing.
Just the stress of going threw all this causes memory problems. I don't think anyone would say all this isn't stressful.  So when you don't have to think about. this day and night....I think that alone will improve your memory.  
When I had the most memory problems was during treatment and for a time after.  I now don't have Hepatits C and my memory has become better than before treatment.

Best to you

[susan400]

I think in my case, it will be processed foods, BPH from bottled water, sugar from my love of sweets.....  I'm not trying to be funny.  But, I believe we can drive ourselves crazy (neurotic), if we try to wonder about toxins in everything we do.  Trust, I've been worried about all this stuff in the past with all the treatments I've done.  Finally, I realized that we all are going to die some day and this constant fretting about this stuff was taking too much energy.  Energy- a precious commodity that I don't have much of anyway  Susan400

[dontworry_behappy1]

Every time you expose yourself to drugs there is the chance you could have side effects.   Some can be permanent.   Each time you take drugs you take the risk along with you.   Anything that goes in your body takes time to get out of your body.  Vitamins, food, alcohol, medications etc.   All of these have toxic properties.   Look at the chemicals added to all these product.   Even organicly grown food can have toxins in thier chemical make up.  We are all different and all these additives effect everyone differently.   Take to much aspirin and get a toxic result.   You could even die.

Recently,  I took a hard look at the effects of alcohol (toxin).   Because it appears after treatment I have no tolerance for alcohol.   I have never drank much in my life.  A few drinks here and there.  But after treatment (2 years after Hepatitis C treatment) I ended up in the hospital for a very fast heart beat.   Previous to this event I had been drinking social with friend.  A minimal amount alcohol.   Amazing I tested for traces of alcohol toxin the hospital.  
I hadn't drank anything for a week.  But alcohol was still in my body.   It appears I don't process alcohol well anymore.   The amount of time it takes for my body to process alcohol is lots longer than the average person.  I do believe this is the results of Hep C treatment.  Even the high powered heart doctor believed alcohol was the cause.   As a result I have decided that drinking at all after treatment is not a good idea.

What I'm getting to is the liver/kidney is what remove toxins in our body.  It appears that liver properties may have changed due to treatment.  I do believe toxins of this types do leave your body and drinking lots of water is
important in helping this process along.  Some have a harder time processing toxin than other.   What I'm getting at is toxins do leave your body over time.
What they have caused in this process is something completely different.

I too have am a cancer survivor.  I know the chemotherapy experience.  Like you I believe that Hepatitis C treatment is nothing less than chemotherapy.
In medical dictionaries and my doctors response to this question....Hep C
treatment in Chemotherapy.  It's chemo treatment directed at one thing.
That thing is Hepatitis C.  Arguing if it's a pot or a pan is just an argument.       I took a pill for 5 years after treating breast cancer. That daily pill was chemotherapy.  So chemo does come in pill forum.  This was after 6 months of every three weeks infusion ( applying medication through your veins).   That treatment was much easier than Hepatitis C Chemotherapy with Incivek.

You always are going to have traces of something in your body when you die.
But I doubt that it's going to be a build up of chemotherapy drugs in your body.  

Best to you

[Magnum]

Oh yes, I went through the forgetfulness phase. I'm not sure what caused it. I tried hard to remember what it was, but I couldn't remember. The one thing I remember for sure is that I forgot what it was. A pregnant woman could have come up to me and tell me I'm the father, and all I could reply was... really?

Magnum, who else?

[Faithdove]

When we have many things on our minds, it is easy to become distracted. My husband is the one on treatment, and I am the one putting the salad dressing in the cabinet!!!! I have been relly trying to live in the moment, and it has helped......now where the heck are my glasses!!!!!!

[Livelife777]

Hi Don'tworry
In reference to Susan's Post regarding these drugs and accumulation.
I have not done research on this subject but base my knowledge regarding this issue from personal experience.
Interferon is considered chemotherapy and I have alot of info unfortunately with chemo.  As a 2X survivor of cancer took 6 months of chemo.  Ten years later a new primary, not reoccurrence.     Tx was at Sloan Kettering.  It's back!!!!!   Holy ****. Another 6 months, but.....this time was 10000Xs worse.
Why?????   Oncologists at Sloan,  "Its accumulative.  Never leaves your muscles and /or tissues.  Will still be there the day you die!"
My response was based on the knowledge that Interferon had been administered over and over and over to poster.
Can't say for sure that ALL Hep C drugs stay with you for sure but I honestly believe that they do.  When you look at Toxocology Reports from people hundreds of years after their death, they can always decifer the cause of disease.  Arsenic for example would show.  In my book these drugs all have a high level of toxicity.  It is truly unbelievable to me that so little is known concerning what we put in our bodies.  Case in point, do know McDonalds
Burgers have pieces of yoga mats in them.  Sad to say, that is documented.
Be Well
.....Kim

[gibsongal]

that he said ^

[dontworry_behappy1]

Could you give me a reference to where you found that these drugs are accumulative and stay in your system forever.  I would like to read more about that.

[child24angel]

You've finished tx again !!!!!!! This time is the last!!!!!!!!!!!
Keeping fingers and toes crossed for you !!!
Sending lots of Hugs

Elaine

[Livelife777]

Oh my!   Another bump in the road towards wellness.   I'm surprised you even have a brain after all the Tx you've endured.   Giving you a thumbs up award for tenacity and outright perseverance.
Keep in mind theses drugs are accumulative.   Doesn't matter if you took them 50 years ago or 5 mins ago, they forever stay in our system.  Hopefully this is the last hurrah.  
Memory is an added bonus in our lives, and might add kinda needed to get us thru our daily tasks.   They recently did a study with dementia and found the old standby of crossword puzzles, reading ect were not the most proficient regarding the recesses of our mind.  The jury's conclusion was hands down that exercise was by far the best method to circumvent memory loss.  Seems you have your bases covered, and only time will gradually push these meds thru.
Your def on the right track and hopefully the Mayo will make it to the fridge.
While on Tx, I actually ended up finding my sunglasses in the oven so welcome to the sisterhood of the traveling mind.
What's most important thru all of this is the final curtain.  Hoping in this performance you will be taking your final bow.
Keep the light shining
....Kim  

[Aquisi]

Hi Susan, I started to forget things like that and was already on Kristalose (lactulose), two times a day, I have cirrhosis, don't no where your at with that but my doc prescribed xifaxan 550mg two times day and it seems like its helping. I just started S/O and so far it's like night and day compared to the other poison I was on in 2012 P/R Vic. Wish you the best.
Regards
Charlie