Wierd side effects

[Cjb3695]

So i've been on tenofivor(viread) for about 8months now. I've experienced most of the side effects listed. Recently i've been experiencing a pain from my upper left chest throughout my arm. Mostly at night, then during the day I feel a tingly feeling throughout my body. The last time I had my tests done I was at 70 hbvdna. Of course its not the best test because the American health care system blows. But I've heard we are now getting fibrosis scans and hbsag quanitity scans. Anyway the numbness is consistant and constant. I did miss one dose of the viread to see if it would still occur. It didnt happen. Of course when I continued the next the day it returned. My docter said I have to see a neuro consultant. She thinks its something with the nerve, which is possible because I ran an ECG test for the heart and it wasn't that. Any suggestions or ideas?

[calmama]

You can have a liver biopsy to check your liver damage.  Yes it's invasive and cannot be repeated often.  But usually it involves only mild discomfort the day of the procedure.  Before Fibroscan becomes available in US, a liver biopsy will give you some idea about your liver damage.

BTW, I had one done.  With the sedatives, I couldn't even remember anything they did (or I did) during the procedure.

[stef2011]

check carefully kidneys in US, it is a must during tdf to have monthyl kidneys function tests i posted earlier.it must be tested even if you are all ok

[stef2011]

we have copied from what also CFS patients are forced to in US, they also have no tests in US

you can ship by fedex to india labs, we posted somewhere in the community an indian lab network who agreed to test fedex samples, try a search by "india hbsag quantity"
if you need you can have all tests done there, better machines than in US and probably cheaper too

as to fedex you have to prepare the documents for non hazardous, infectious blood sample or biological sample

[Cjb3695]

Its not my back, its more my left chest. Its sometimes so crazy to the point where my whole left side of my body is aching. Its like a bunch of bubbles or something on my left side just going crazy... But it only happens when Im on viread. I decided to continue using it and try to bare through it because I had sometimes where I felt really good.. What really ***** is I cant measure HBSAG quanitity.. and I cant freaking test for Fibrosis in USA. So I feel like theirs no progress to look at. Is there a way I can send blood somewhere to get my HBSAG quant? How would I go about getting blood and shipping it?

[calmama]

I agree with stef.  Don't go off tenofovir like that.  Resistance is a one-way road you don't want to go down.

[stef2011]

by the way i have a small back pain on the left too but i dont care about it because all blood tests are normal, it comes and goes and very mild

tdf is known to have back pain sides but they are not important unless you cant walk or move because of it or if you have abnormal kidenys function