Boceprevir Trial Started

[Rockerforlife]

Hi all,just did my first shot and and 3 Ribas in the Doctors office about 3 hours ago...juts waiting for the "shake rattle and roll" to hit me...BTW i like the palm pilot they give you to keep track of the the meds ...once a day you log on the machine and enter your data....make sit easier to NOT miss your meds...good thinking by someone out there in big pharma land...this thing is even wireless and has a camera and a key board...looks jus like a black berry...pretty wild...anywho...i do 3 more shots and then i go in for the BOC meds and pray i get the real deal...have a beautiful weekend to you all

r.s

[Rockerforlife]

ITs a thing called a spoon...not sure of the year it was invented.its about 6 inches long with a small bowl shaped receptacle at the end of a handle..anyway..you just dip it into the jar of oil and lift to mouth and swallow..do not swallow spoon..may cause some dicomfort

[HATCHJO]

Susan
They will not accept you in this trial. I was in the same Vertex trial as you Arm C.....I applied in Michigan as well as Toronto and was turned down because of the vertex experience. Sorry
Joanne

[R Glass]

May the Force be with You

[susan400]

Nothing's stopping me!  I inquired at 2 of the trial sites that I've been involved with and neither one of them is doing Boceprevir and don't intend to do it.  They also told me that they have no upcoming trials for which I will qualify for..., for non-responders.  One of these 2 trial sites told me, "you will not be accepted into any of the trials for protease inhibitors".  Which I thought was rather negative in my opinion.  I mean how does she know if another trial would not consider me for Boceprevir, when A.) they are not even doing that trial and B.) I've never been exposed to Boceprevir so, how could I be resistant to it?  Anyhow, I sent my records off to yet, another trial site, which is doing the Boc. trial and I have yet to hear back from them.  Before I sent them, I was told that if I was even considered, that I would not be able to start until the next group after the first of the year - which is fine with me, if they will just accept me.  I asked about the Pen thing because I've never used them.  When I was the Peg-Intron in the past, I never used the pen, I always used the other method of Peg-Intron (a vial or Prefilled syringe - don't remember which it was).  It's been a few years since the Peg-Intron for me.  One time, I had this Pen-like device for another medication - not an interferon drug and I did not do well with it.  I was a device where you pushed it up against your skin and pushed a button and the drug was dispensed with a 'click' sound..., it made me jump, sort-of and when I got startled, I ended up moving my hand and squirting the medicine out away from my skin and basically wasted the med.  I had no problem with the prefilled syringes that Pegasys is used with.  I had no problem with a syringe and a vial.  For some reason that clicking mechanism makes me jump, jerk or whatever.  I'm sure that with practice and instruction on the first few shots that I could learn it and get past that.  I have the same knee-jerk reaction with closing my eyes on a flash picture.  

Susan400

[sunqueen]

Good luck Rocker!  Now go kick some buggggger butttttttt!

[virgocharm]

i bought the coconut oil. how do you take it.