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
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[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
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