Best Way to Treat Psychiatric Symptoms on TX

[BoceprevirGal]

What methods have you found most helpful, in dealing with psychiatric or "mood" problems, that have developed while you were on TX for your Hep C?

[fretboard]

When I go through tx the first thing I'm gonna do is get hooked up with a good therapist who deals with cancer patients or at least patients who are on difficult drugs.  The whole idea is to talk to people who are going through the same thing you are so in that respect this forum is the number 1 pit stop.  

Personally, I wouldn't be able to get that much support from my family simply because they are ignorant when it comes to HepC and anything that goes with it.  Outside HepC group would be great!.

[Idyllic]

Wow, this is really sweet about how use of ... "other" kinds of drugs or self-medicating isn't mentioned. Even the Marijuana is "medical."

A few of the options apply to me however I can really relate to what brianmo says about dogs. There are so many things I am blowing off and letting fall by the wayside but my dogs is one thing that literally makes me *make* myself fight giving in to apathy and fatigue.

[nygirl7]

Personally I prefer medical heroin.  I dont know why it's not been suggested yet that would REALLY get rid of pains and aches!  ;)

[Peter2012]

Right now I'm in my 13th week of treatment. I've had mild psychiatric symtoms, including some very strange and upsetting dreams, especially the night and day after the peg injection.

I believe it's best to relax and get through it, and if possible to NOT resort to psychiatric drugs. This is my second treatment, the first time I didn't know what to expect, but this this time I'm as well-prepared as possible.

In 2003 on rebetron I ran into some problems with being irritable, overly sensitive and easily angered at work and elsewhere. I felt vulnerable because I was in a weakened state and less able to defend myself verbally or physically. I was very annoyed by the way some people snickered at my being unable to walk quickly because of the low hemoglobin.

This time, I'm just staying at home most of the time during the second half of treatment, and staying off work until the end of treatment.    

[uncledudeness]

now it all seems like a blur to me; 4 months after i treated. but i kept on telling myself that it will be over soon and when it is i'll be free of it......(Dr. Phil looks at me and says "how's that working out for ya".....and i hit him in the head with a snow shovel....i used to say the worse i felt, the more the drugs are working for me, and i still feel that way...so use what you have to beat it; the pain, the nausea the stinkin rash, the insomnia, the fatigue and all the rest to keep yourself moving forward.

when it's over it will be well worth it...you'll have your life back.

btw, i chose the support group....

[nygirl7]

and i hit him in the head with a snow shovel"


LOL he deserves it for all the misinformation he put out there about us!!!!!!!!

You have killed me that was a great one.