Incivik; Triple Therapy; Need help & honest Answers!

[ontrackbasis]

I am just getting ready to start triple therapy on July 1, 2013. I am scared with what I am reading. My Dr is starting me off with all 3 at once, and has chosen Incivik,. On top of being concerned with the pegasys n Riba now I am concerned with this Incivik.. Any help would be great... honesty too... Apparently the Pegasys & Riba will be for 9 months and the Incivik will just be for my first 12 weeks on treatment...

I am wondering if I will be able to work as my job can become very demanding at times.

Thank you to all of you who share your stories... I am getting tired of people trying to tell me how I feel who have never personally done treatment.

[ceanothus]

Welcome to the forum! I think you should call your doctors office or clinic immediately for a prescription for Zofran, even if its evening or weekend or both, as most doctors have an after-hours answering service that will page them in an emergency. This is an emergency if he can't keep the pills down, as missing any doses of Incivek increases the risk of viral mutation and breakthrough infection – which will call for a prompt stopping of the entire treatment. If treatment has to be stopped for this reason it can't be restarted, and then the only choice is to wait  however many years it takes for the next drugs to be approved.

I'm also a little concerned that the doctor didn't order a biopsy prior to starting tx, as the tx for non-cirrhotics can be only 24 weeks if they respond rapidly to the drugs, but cirrhotics must treat 48 weeks regardless, as the virus is harder to kill in cirrhotics. Is his doctor just assuming he is cirrhotic based on his ultrasound? That is safer than assuming one is not cirrhotic based on an ultrasound. Best wishes!

[can-do-man]

don't worry posted..."Zofran is the name of a medication that works
well for nausea."

I agree, there is no reason to suffer from that nasty side... Good luck to your Hubby and you.

[dontworry_behappy1]

Does your husband have prescription medication for nausea?  This is a very important medication when treating with incivek.  You can be just miserable if you don't have medication for nausea.   I asked for my doctor to prescribe something for nausea before even starting treatment so I would have it on hand.  It's extremely important that your husband doesn't throw up the Hep C treatment drugs.  Most everyone treating with Incivek needs medication for
nausea from time to time.  Zofran is the name of a medication that works
well for nausea.  I have taken it and it works fast.  I have also taken generic versions that also work really good.

Hope this is helpful to your husband

[hepCFREEwanab]

Hello everyone, I am writing on behalf of my husband who on June 25th started his HEP C treatment.
He's taking Interferon inj 1x week (tue 7:30 pm) Inciveck 3 pills 2x a day 9 am & 9 pm along with 1200 mg. Riba 2x a day 9 am & 9 pm.
The first injection brought chills and fever ( 101.1) after about 6 hrs. which lasted from tue to friday night. Week end much better.
Second injection NO fever but other SX have emerged such as butt pain, nausea, fatigue, insomnia and brain fog.
Today he has been so reluctant to drink liquids because he said that as soon as he does the nausea starts.  This morning after breakfast( which included the 20gm. of fat) he took his pills and drank some liquids. Within minutes he felt like throwing up.
I kept on praying that he would be able to hold the food down for at least a little while to give a chance for the meds to be digested.. He did but since then he has hardly had anything to drink.  I am so worried about him.
By the way he has had Hep C probably over 40 yrs, DX in 1992 officially. He never drank or smoked and always ate a very healthy diet. His liver enzymes were always elevated but the Dr. felt that the numbers were not that high to be concerned expecially since all the other levels were within range. Then on his last CBC many things were high and so the Dr. advised us to go and see a liver specialist. We did and here we are!!!! He is genotype 1b but I am not sure what his V/L is. Before treatment he had a sonogram which showed extensive liver imflamation. No byopsy was done.
I hope I will be welcomed here as my husband's spokesperson.
By the way his name is Angelo and my name is Mena.
I need all the help and support possible while my husband is going through this phase of his life.
After reading many of your posts, I can really feel how everyone cares about each other.
God bless all of you and may you all be successful in achieving SVR!

[Dee1956]

I don't know if this will matter or not but my riba's (a generic) were 400 mg each vs the 200 mg each

[cheflady]

hi and welcome to the forum hubby treated with incivek and was UND from wk 4 and stayed that way throughout the 24wk of tx sorry that first jab was bad i hope it gets better as you go through tx, i wish you all the best and keep us posted