I have been told over and over that you need to take the riba with food with a high fat content to help absorb it. JmJm preaches that and so does Nygirl. I eat some pretty disgusting things in the morning to help absorb the riba. Today started with a yogurt smoothie then had a rib with bar-b-que sauce! Drop in hgb means the riba is being absorbed well. Glad I'm anemic, my disgusting diet is working, I'll just die of coronary artery disease!
i was told to eat w/ the riba to avoid nausea, not to promote absorption. not that i can tell if it helps, i am constantly queezy/nauseous, i get a break from the nausea about 1 day every 3 weeks. that day helps keeps me going & i really celebrate the relief.
"Jeez, nothing like hindsight."
Mine is real good, too! hahaha
It's sort of like my 'luck'
You know, if it wasn't for 'bad luck' I wouldn't have any?
"My only really good day (today) and I gotta worry about eating with meds or not eating with meds... Tomorrow starts the cycle again and the big decision will be what side of my stomach do I want to stick. I gotta get a life."
I know what you man. Between allergy injections (1 in each arm) pegasys and now neupogen I'm turning into what someone on the forum so aptly described as a human pin-cushion.
But think about your heritage! TEUFELHUNDEN! I love that. It sounds so much more powerful in German than in English.
(I still like the Cerebus-Hades connection, too.)
I hear ya on the Anemia, and helping with the diet. I had originally lost 28 lbs and gained 4 back , now I lost 2 again. so still at 26 down and just about 2 sizes. Its getting easier to move myself on those days I feel so drained.. Less weight to drag along.. LOL
I go for my 2 wk CBC today, then to work.. I actully made it all week at work.
Glad you made a full week of work! I actually did too this week. I made up a day on Sat last week so I'm on a roll! Godd thing I was unemployed for 10 days, it really helped!
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JmJm preaches that and so does Nygirl
I learned this from Jim a year and a half ago when I started treatment. It was tough trying to eat in the beginning but - the riba BINDS to the fat...so it doesn't wash straight out of you. So it makes SENSE to take it with something that has fat. Personally I wasn't able to eat a whole lot but I ALWAYS took it with breakfast and dinner, even if breakfast was a piece of peanut butter toast or yogurt smoothie (if you buy them make sure you don't get "Low Fat")
I never had a problem with nauseau from them and I think that too was result of eating when taking them.
Plus - at 7am and 7pm I might have forgotten to take the pills somehow BUT not with breakfast or dinner...that was my reminder.
Good luck!
i have to give my first blood at labcorp since starting tx 3 weeks ago. the order lists CBA, CMP and TSH. what is the CMP test? also, is the TSH a thyroid test? thanks. thanks.
Hope I didn't offent you quoting you. You and Jim carry more weight than my voice!
Antman cmp=complete metabolic panel
Thanks for the info. I guess I better start putting something in me when I take my meds in the evening. I like the smoothie idea too. I guess if Hercules can tame Cerebus, I better work a little smarter in taming Hep C.