Delayed or postponed treatment for HepC.

[MyLiver4Life]

While on treatment combination of Peg-interon Redipen/Copegus, can it be stopped for one week due to travel and then resume on return home? Reason for question, my husband needs to make a trip away from home and he needs to be strong enough to drive 1700 miles round trip. He becomes fatigued and nausea sets in soon after injection, and continues off and on until his next injection. Also, if he postpones his injection for one week, can he also stop the Copegus oral dosage then resume both at the same time?
Any advise would be mush appreciated.

[jmjm530]

myliver said:If he postponed the shot, but not the Copegus, would that have adverse afects?
-------------------------------
Some might argue that skipping a shot at that point in treatment would potentially have more adverse effects than skipping the ribavirin. The reality is no one knows exactly what difference it would make but it's a very (I'll repeat)VERY big gamble.

[friole]

Greetings from my liver to your liver.  With a screenname like that, this must be a mighty important trip to even think about endangering the changes of success.   To my knowledge there haven't been any studies on this, but logically, it would increase the chance of not clearing.  THere have been some great suggestions for alternate travel means. I hope you can work something out like that.  Could you go along to help drive?  It is a hard decision, but I personally would not jeapordize my chance at SVR.

[Fisheress]

I just did a  lil over a 1000 mile round trip w/no help driving.  Took my shot w/me and managed to work thru it all.  Spread myself really thin while visting my family and even thought about delaying my trip home 1 day ( no rest at all).  Glad I went ahead and got the drive back done as scheduled as I am so happy to be home, been resting a week now LOL!.  Stopping and stretching really helped, of course don't forget the water, that will make for alot of stopping too.  I took a case of Ozarka water bottles w/me and finished them up before I got home.

It's a lil hard but can be done (won't do it again!).  Encourage your husband to not miss a dose, not worth it.  And if the drive HAS TO BE DONE, If wimpy me can do it, he can.

Good luck,
Fisheress

[FlGuy]

I'm glad to hear that you have a 'real person' support in addition to your more ethereal group here. As you go on, possibly tx'ing, it's going to get increasingly difficult to keep it from others.  You've got a lot of competing factors to get resolved.  I hope your pal Funky can help you out along the way.  We're always here too.  p.s. is Funky a HCV person too?

[can-do-man]

Funkasaurus? I think that was on the flintstones:)

[merlino]

Couldn't post any additional comments on trial thread. Thanks to all for being so supportive. Flguy-funkasaurus is a friend. We share the same Doc's.  She is the only person in my world who knows (now I have all of you) about this. She is lucky enough to have a great family  and husband who stand by her at all times. She helps me cope, as reading all your comments do.It just made me sad to think because my aunt had cancer she received such wonderful care, hearing how this disease(and others) is viewed by my family I would be an outcast.This is how they are and always have been. So, here I am.