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essential tremor and tx
Aug 14, 2008 07:43PM in the Hepatitis C Community
You need to know what is causing the tremors. If you have parkinson's they may have to adjust your meds upward to compensate for the Riba but you need to know what is causing the tremors. See a neurologist. mb
transplant options
Aug 14, 2008 07:31PM in the Hepatitis C Community
on the right of this page you willsee a list of other forums in medhelp. the transplant forum will be helpful to you. There are some liver transplant patients in there who know far more than most HCV patients. Mike Simons has a lot of experience and knowledge concerning this, I would start over there. I can tell you there's a lot of criteria for gett...
Sleeplessness
Aug 11, 2008 09:00PM in the Hepatitis C Community
for many changing the GABA receptor reaction works better and is less addictive (ambien) For HCV'ers insomnia is common. the reason may help: Your liver makes sam-e daytime, and meletonin at night. since liver no workie, hence less of those chemicals at the proper time of day. Also, the pituitary is effevted somehow by the virus (low HGH is common in HCV...
uh oh, cant remember if i took pm ribavirin
Aug 10, 2008 06:26PM in the Hepatitis C Community
glad you figured it out but in future. a double dose is very yukky. My advice would be when in doubt, take a half dose. that way is you did forget, you are still getting some, but if you did take it and forget, at least you'll only get enough more to drive you slightly crazy and not stark raving mad. mb
they come in like waves
Aug 07, 2008 10:40PM in the Hepatitis C Community
you need to know you CBC's right away. Forget your VL for now, get in and get a blood draw immediately. You need to know if your Hemoglobin has tanked, and your white count as well. the breathing and unable to get up for 30 minutes is NOT just normal side effects...it sounds like low HGB to me, and the fever/chills could mean low platelets/white count as...
riba concentration instead of dosis
Aug 07, 2008 10:17PM in the Hepatitis C Community
Boy, that's busting your chops to get somewhere. You know when I first read the Lindahl study I was all gun ho to get the led out too... but it took only 3 days to convince my body otherwise. I think the operative thing is to remember we all want to keep our kidneys and have enough blood to carry oxygen and fight infections as well. The increased dang...