2nd day: combo & back pain

Posted By bw on January 20, 1999 at 15:22:33:







The prescribed dose is 5MU's daily for the induction period
of a month, along with 1,000mg daily of the Ribavirin.  After the
induction, the IntronA dose will be standard at 3MU's 3 x week.
If the lab's are all okay at week one and again at week three,
then there will be no adjustment to the Ribavirin dose.
The first dose, my sides were awful: excrusiating headache, a pain
in my neck, hips ached, the bottom of my feet hurt.  I am positive
for cryoglobulin's.  Could this be the reason the joint problems
are exacerbated?
Last night I may have overdosed the IntronA.  As directed, I am to
use the 3MU vials first, adding some from the 5MU vial to dose at
the 5MU's.  The syringe filled with the emptied 3MU vial read: .75
and I added some from the 5MU vial, as shown to do.
My sides were brutal.  Every flu like system along with incredible
pain from my hamstrings and glutes, foot pain, bones ached, spinal
pain, headache.
Tylenol Flu did nothing to aleviate my symptoms.  The treatment
nurse says to take 2 Advil, 2 x day for the spinal/muscular pain.
Here are my questions:
With the cryoglobulin's, is this the way treatment is going to
continue to feel?  Are the cryoglobulin's the reason I am having
such a tough time?  Please explain:  2MU's out of a 5MU vial is
equal to how many units?  And how many ml's?  
Thank you very much.