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About Me: Female, 55, Malabar - FL, member since Jul 2008
I have always been a pleasant, positive, fun, healthy, active person all my life.  Evidently an ectopic pregency in 1978 which required major emergency surgery and a blood transfusion left with me Hep C which was not discovered until 2007 after a car accident.  I have n ... [More] ever even taken aspirin as I don't get headaches; however, now I take 13 pills per day and I am on the Interfuron treatment (Pegasys injection once per week) and 6 pills per day (Copegus).  I've been on this for 2 1/2 months and what an experience this has been.  I have chronic Hep C and cirrosis of the liver.  Lately I have wanted to bite heads off of wild animals so I decided to start my Paxil for anxiety and depression.  A few days later my face and all around my eyes swelled up and I looked absolutely moon-faced and awful.  I haven't told my doc yet and I don't want him to take me off my treatment.  Has anyone out there gone through the same swelling situation?  Thank you very much.  Mary in Malabar   [Less]
Interests: Arabian Horses, dogs and cats, treatment, liver, eyes, hep c  
Lingering Interferon Aftereffects
Jul 19, 2008 09:06PM in the Hepatitis C Community
I've been on HCV (pegylated interferon & ribavarin) treatment for 2 1/2 months and have experienced what I thought was ev...
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