LIZE, Anyone post tx for atleast 2 years - are you out there?

[cata100]

Good Morning everyone, interested in hearing from people who are atleast 2 years post interferon treatment. I've spent quite a bit of time reading about folks that have completed their treatments 6-12 months ago and was wondering if any of you that completed treatment 2 years ago or more can comment on how you are feeling today, what you have gone through, or any additional info. you are comfortable with sharing.  Thank you very much.

[valji]

Then why would someone who has only had Hep. C for a very short time and has no symptoms at all, have such sever side effects after treatment?
valji

[returntosender]

Sorry - didnt mean to upset anyone, dont even think I was responding to anyone in particular.  Just kinda thinking out loud a bit.  I never intended to say that it was all in the head.  No way!  I just think that in my case my head is involved and I am not sure how much.  In reading other posts it occurred to me that perhaps my pre treatment sides were not really sides but bad lifestyle.  My ears are open and I hear you.  Your not the first to tell me to f off or get to a meeting.  So thanks (not for the f off) but for the good suggestion.  My deepest apologies to you, you certainly dont need any more on your plate than you already have.

[returntosender]

BTW, the 85% is before we get into tx not afterwards.  Once that energy is turned to recovery it is amazing the results.  Anyway, thought I would clarify less someone thinks I am anti addict or somthing. And I certainly didnt mean that people should talk about these things.  Just a couple of threads ago I was saying that we need to discuss this more.  As HepResearcher said the other day, the imperfection of language.  Without seeing me saying what I am saying and without me sitting on your side of this reading, it is difficult to convey and to interpret what the hel! someone is talking about.  Again, my apologies.

[abbas11]

Hello.Abbas,boy.23 years old.

Intrferon alpha ruined my best younghood years.14 months post tx.
sexual dysfunction,depression,anxiety,chronic fatique,low energy,brain fog, i live as a movable dead. no fun in my life


interferon made me old,never say yes to it

[amicraxy]

85% of their time worrying about thier addictions.  thats what you said.  You should get a life.  I know dozens of people in recovery and after the first year or so just as me, dayd and even weeks can go by with out the thoughts of addiction, thats because I have a life.  If the people you hang out with think the same as you or if you get your info from books that say things like that, Seriously change your life, your not living.
  If someone has gone through tx and are not feeling right they have a right to talk about and owe it to others to talk about it.
  I thank God for people talking about what they went through and are going through.   I have suffered a lot on tx and today I am on my 5th tylanol which is a lot for me.  
  I'm getting a littlr carried away here. If I was done with tx and just dint feel righ, I would want to know if others felt anything.   Yes , I think about tx and when I am in some sort of pain I am IN IT.  But I have a life and even though I am in the middle of it  {tx}  I don't think about it 80% of the time.
  I think I just went over board writing all this. Sorry

[amicraxy]

It sounded to me like you were saying much of this is in the head. Well **** you if you are.  I used to think when someone talked about depression that they really should just snap out of it.  I got into a depression some where around the 3 or 4 week and it has been very deep for days on end and even today I am deeling with trying not to let it COMPLETELY over take me.  I have two children here and have done very good at keeping it together.  I now see that my perspective about others perspectives were just my limited view and some one who has been in a 12 step progam should by now have begun to understand that.
  And there is another very importen insight i have learned about myself through tx, and that is when I am feeling very low and it gets rough, anger seems to bring relife.  So **** you and I hope to ******* run into you and show you how ******* angry I can get.
  And that is how I feel after reading your very limited view, selffish view.   I can go on but I think I embaressed myself enough.   The way you see it MAY ONLY BE GOOD ENOUGH FOR YOU so return your self back to 12 step meetings and take the cotton out of you ears and put it in your mouth