Post Interferon Long Term Side Effects on other sites

[DoubleDose]

Here is a site that I stumbled across today while Googling long term interferon after effects.  I also found several other sites as well, also 'chocked' full of people detailing their horrible experiences after using interferon.  This sure supports what many of us have been saying and experiencing!!  It is quite disturbing to read additional accounts, some even worse than the experiences documented here on our forum.  Here is the link:  (you will have to copy and paste)

http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=10


I will bet that sometime soon we will be hearing about these issues in the media.  The sheer volume and severity of the problems will cause this to become an issue that will provoke national media attention....and with very good cause!!!  I just don't think we were really warned of these kinds of long term outcomes.  I know I wasn't.

DoubleDose

[nygirl7]

I'm sure all the folks who have to suffer through radiation didn't like it very much either but presented with little other choice than stage 4 cancer they manned up and did what they had to.

Is modern medicine perfect, hell no but it's getting better and better for us heppers every day. For those of us who remember having NO option than to treat longer, double dose the meds and just pray as hard as we can - well I think some of us have more long term effects than the normal joe does today who only treats for 24 weeks.

It's getting there and maybe someday interferon will be gone but let's see what long term effects the newer meds might have too. Faced with the tough choices you gotta do what you gotta do.

Lloyd ew haven't seen his name stinking up the place in a long long time. Now THAT is progress :D

[flcyclist]

DD, I don't doubt for one second that some experience very negative effects of exposure to interferon and my sympathies to those having a difficult time with them.  However, from May 2004 to current (7.5 yrs), only 13 people responded on this website to indicate their problems.   Considering the number of people that undergo trt each year,  a 2/year average demonstrates to me how small this "affected group" could be.  

Additionally, the symptoms described are so generic that a direct effect from interferon is very difficult to conclude considering how many other diseases could display the same symptoms.  Again, I'm not second guessing these claims, but how do you draw any conclusions from anecdotal information like this?  This information presented actually helps to support that there are fewer afftected than I had originally thought.  Obviously, this website isn't a scientific way to measure anything, but considering the sample size, the numbers don't support the large volume that you claim in your post.

[willbb]

Lloyd Wrong's "heart is in the right place" only if you think a wallet is a good place to store your heart.
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[curiouslady1]

Just as we have moved beyond Lloyd who was all there was in the early nineties or nearly so, someday we will move beyond interferon ;)

[nygirl7]

Obviously, this website isn't a scientific way to measure anything"

Hey what cho talkin bout Willis, we sure think we are ;)

[mikesimon]

No one with any degree of serious intellectual curiosity followed or believed in Lloyd Wright or held him in high esteem. He has always been a charlatan and a thief of the worst sort.
Comparing him to interferon is a joke - a very bad analogy, if you will.

Mike