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1051313 tn?1284780795

Advice about delaying my shot this weekend?

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
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1051313 tn?1284780795
I thought about doing it earlier, but I wonder if that would be worse since the bulk of the work really is to  be done before hand (Did I mention Christmas day?) .
I was playing around with the idea of doing it earlier instead of later.
My Dr. did say it would be fine.
I am kinda waiting also just to see how much I am ready by Friday eve.  I will have A LOT of help, but still Saturdays can be hard.  I don't want to end up melting down and crying in the middle of the day.  The wedding is @ 1:00, and by then my work will be done. Maybe take the shot first thing in the morning?
I ve' been UND since week 8 I believe.
V
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179856 tn?1333547362
Every single thing I have read and good piece of advise says you can take your shot earlier but not later. Hopefully you are truly undetectible and there really is no virus left to have a breakthrough.

Is taking the shot a day early a consideration or possibility? That would be  much safer, as it is a geno1 only has 50/50 chance of success - personally I just think with this tricky disease it's better safe than sorry.

If you do relapse you will always wonder if that one shot was it.

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971268 tn?1253200799
It's fine.  My husband was told by a top hepatologist he could change his shot day, one day at a time, in the first few weeks, no problem.  You're on week 39 -- it won't make any difference.  Just do the shot when the wedding is over.  Hope you have fun!
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717272 tn?1277590780
Your doctor's opinion is the most relevant here.  I was once stopped and restarted on a Tuesday instead of the usual Friday and was told that I could move the shot back to Friday by doing it one day later every week until it got back to Friday.  No harm done.
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Whats more important,your life or the one day of work<?...if it was me id do the shot on time and if i wasnt knocked to the ground id go to work,otherwise my life is top priority here.
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997730 tn?1254278376
I think if your Dr. said it would be ok to delay for 24 hours, you are probably OK.  I think that if you were in your first 4-12 weeks, that it would be a bad thing as those first few weeks seem to be very important in achieving UND.  

If your Dr. was against it, then I'd be agreeing with him/her there.  39 weeks, you are nearly there...

Good Luck.
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