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Long Term SX
Is there anyone out there who has finished TX for at least 2 years to 10 years out and has no problems with long term sides?..i dont seem to see many posts on this issue,i see a few posted by some who have long term sides...where are the non-sides people?
I have been done since 8/06 and other than my thyroid crapping out I have no long term sides. I didn't feel great after treatment, but for all I know it was my thyroid.
I think that a number of people who contracted the virus without knowing how have forgotten that operating rooms and doctors offices did not always use new disposeable instruments. Instruments used to be kept in stainless covered trays of alcohol in the office and surgical tools were autoclaved. I believe that the move to all-disposeable materials was probably related to the upsurge of nonA, nonB (Hepatitis C).
Who can remember getting a penicillin injection with a glass needle at the pediatrician's when they were 12? I couldn't, but I remember the alcohol trays and the smells of the office.
Who can remember getting a penicillin injection with a glass needle at the pediatrician's when they were 12? I couldn't, but I remember the alcohol trays and the smells of the office.
On the paranoid side some friends and I were talking about the injections we got while in Basic training. We were given a series of injections with sterile needles and then they had a wind up contraption that gave several injections at once and left us all bleeding-they didn't take the time to clean the unit-just step up and get it and go on to the next. We don't know how long the virus has been out there or here-maybe forever, and how many people have it and don't know yet? I can't understand why my wife and children didn't get infected-Thank God! What I really don't understand is how I went all these years without it being detected? I had a surgery in 94 and there was no detection then some years later I go for routine check up and am told I have Hep-C. So of course the wife is looking at me pretty hard then the doc says well, you could have gotten it when you got your Tat-or when you had a blood transfusion. I don't buy it.
These drugs used to treat this disease and the way they cause some to have no sides and others to be disabled has my mind boogled....i would love to know the reason why..i know its probaly a combo of numerous factors...but im thinking the trump card on this issue is ...GENES..ive alos been reading there are lots of different strains and subgroups of this virus...so the combo of all this and other factors...make this disease a mystery...the PI`s are what the whole world is watching at the moment...id say by 2O12 they will hit the market...
In the last 5 years I did 48, 76, 13 weeks of treatment and feel as good as I did 10 years ago. I haven’t lost a day of work all though tx. You don’t read too many of these stories because there is nothing to complain about and you don’t want to throw it the faces of those that have problems. Treatment was pretty easy on me, it is the svr part that I have a problem with.
I don't know why some people get long-term side effects of different degrees and others recover scott-free or almost.
It's premature for me to say but knock wood, three weeks post-tx, I so far feel quite good physically.
I'm having a strong (okay, very strong) case of the blues, though, which I never had on tx. Maybe it's because I feel like a helpless bystander, waiting for PCR results, or maybe it's the meds decreasing in my system. Or maybe it's because I should be busier but don't have enough stamina yet.
So physically, I feel pretty good so far but am not home free. Knowing what a roller coaster ride tx was, I'd guess post-tx recovery is also unpredictable.
It's premature for me to say but knock wood, three weeks post-tx, I so far feel quite good physically.
I'm having a strong (okay, very strong) case of the blues, though, which I never had on tx. Maybe it's because I feel like a helpless bystander, waiting for PCR results, or maybe it's the meds decreasing in my system. Or maybe it's because I should be busier but don't have enough stamina yet.
So physically, I feel pretty good so far but am not home free. Knowing what a roller coaster ride tx was, I'd guess post-tx recovery is also unpredictable.
SVR for almost 2 years and 4 months.
Aside from the thyroid and autoimmune rashes I get (due to how long I treated and how much of the meds I took otherwise they would have resolved)
NO SIDES
Aside from the thyroid and autoimmune rashes I get (due to how long I treated and how much of the meds I took otherwise they would have resolved)
NO SIDES
Thats what I was wondering since I found this site. I got a little criticism for whineing about my sides nearly 4 years after treatment but I don't hear from anyone not in Tx that are happy and well after Tx. I do know a half doxen who are being counseled by my Psychologist and they all have sides, we are all 60 or under and on SSD on the first try after Tx-before and during Tx the law judges just didn't give a rats ***
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