Liver Pain and Can you smell the meds through pores?

[BronxRican007]

Folks,

I think I'm getting a little wacky but I can swear I smell the meds (medicinal smell) on my breath, skin, urine, etc. I know it sounds nuts. The smell is sickening too! Anybody else have the same crazy stuff happening to them?

Also I have mild (like a bruise pain) but slowly increasing URQ and occasional back pain? Anybody have that?

I'm on week 16 and its kicking my ass; I can't sleep, eat, I'm alsolutely sick of water.

I was undectable less than 600 IU at week 14. I bumped my lab reults at the Janis HCV website...and my blood worrk is low but not to the point of extreme anemia.

Friends

Your thoughts?
A very sick and tired Rican

[beamishboy]

i did a summer of radiation trx yrs ago & the samething happened then--we r so familiar w/ our own personal scent that any significant change stands out..i was quite bothered by the alteration then& now,but i think it's rather subtle and certainly to be expected...I mean if a few spears of aspragus can do it,why wouldn't a toxic overload of anti-viral chemicals signature a change in our basic body fragrance---Ewww de interferon--by Schering..............i am also xperiencing sum lower back pain,not unlike an ache frm too much draft beer in the long ago -i went &got myself a vgirous massage on friday,helped all kinda ways,stimulateing,but lower backpain returned pretty darn quik!!-i guess we could liken it to the itch of healin skin?or maybe just further sx of these stinkin drugs?--Have a reasonably tolerable weekend!!!!!!!!!

[fresnoborn]

i personally have not experienced that but i have heard that it happens. my gi told me to expect it and that it was very common for people on tx to experience odd smell. i waited for the smell to come but it hasn't so far. i'm into week 21 so let's see.

[cquest]

I can't comment on the meds smell but I can tell you I smell alcoholics that's for sure...they have a certain odor that oozes from their pores...and people with cancer have an odor too...don't ask me how to describe it but there is a definate smell...my Mom had it (she died of cancer) and now when I'm up on the cancer ward in the hospital, I smell it...creeps me out...
Cin

[AK - Hepper]

I had URQ pain from the ribavirin. Doc gave me Vicodin.

[cquest]

Low back pain eh? That explains it! I started tx, stopped in 5 days...one of the things that really got me was at night when I took the 3 Riba's, I had the most intense low back pains...very close to labor pains they were so bad...all I could do was whimper and beg my husband to rub Tiger Balm on me...very unpleasant..very...
Cin

[ificu1st]

I feel and taste the meds all the time.  I have days where my whole body is on fire and all foods taste nasty.  If anything has salt I can't eat it.  I am on the daily shots of infergen since last March and it has kicked my ass. lost 40 lbs.  I want to quit but only have 9 weeks to go