Advice about delaying my shot this weekend?

[Vic1967]

This weekend will be my 39th shot.  I have a wedding this Saturday and I am the Florist.  It is the only job I took while in treatment (It's a relative, she already had the date picked...).  Usually Saturdays are hard, mostly just tired and bad brain fog, generally impaired.  My Dr. said it would be o.k. to delay my shot for 24 hours.
I would just like to hear from you that have done this.  I know I should resume my regular schedule next week.
I usually take my injection right before bed on Friday eve.
Thanks for any advice you can give.
(yeah I know,  day after Christmas and a family wedding.....oy vey!)
Vicky

[Marcia2202]

Just thinking, you could take it a day early and then work yourself back to the original day during the next 2 - 3 weeks by spacing the shot 12 hours away each time. That would then not be a problem.

Nevertheless, I was told when I started treatment that if I had something very important to do, I could postpone my shot for 1 day. and then either stay on that day or go back to my original schedule.

[jdwithhcv]

Personally I would not take that risk.  I would take it early or on time, but not late.  Not worth the risk, especially since you did not clear til week 8.

jd

[WriteItDown]

Of course I am not a doctor, so maybe I'm wrong.  But I believe that if people's bodies were that sensitive to small changes in when you take the meds, not nearly so many would ever attain SVR. I'm sure many people forget to take their meds and are off a day or more on more than one occasion, so I can't believe missing one dose for 24 hours could seriously jeopardize your whole treatment... that just sounds impossible to me.

But everyone should of course do as they think right. If I were the OP I would take the injection the night after the wedding and not worry about it.

[nygirl7]

the time you're at week 39 the drugs are in a constant state in your body"

NO the interferon leaves your body pretty quickly in fact it's the riba that stays. After all considering that Pegs efficacy starts to wear down in as little as seventy two hours............so you can see a  week later how little there would be left?>

I do agree with FLGuy that it's a huge mistake to make any changes to your meds that might seriously cause you to fail the entire course of treatment.  How many people have we watched be clear till 48 and then have the virus come back a month later?

It's just not a smart thing to do.  My own GI said to NEVER take it later but if I had to do anything earlier was obviously fine because there would be elbow room.  But then I didn't want to do all my shots on a Wed or something and have to come to work like this.

[WriteItDown]

I think you guys are being a little bit paranoid.  By the time you're at week 39 the drugs are in a constant state in your body, the trough that will occur will be slight and it will make no difference.

The drug companies count taking 80% of the drugs as being compliant.  I'm not advocating that, of course; I'm just saying that a 24-hour delay won't make any difference.

However, if you're the type of person who will blame yourself and the one 24-hour delay if the tx doesn't work, then by all means don't take your doc's word for it, because it won't be worth it in the end.

[FlGuy]

I think it's a big mistake to delay, postpone or omit Peg or Riba at any time during treatment.