Missed Riba Dose

[epiphiny]

Calling All the Big Guns!!  Finally after 40 weeks I missed yesterday morning's riba dose.  Just realised now when I went to take this morning's pills and I saw yesterday's pinkies still there.  I have been 100% compliant up until this but now I'm freaking out.  A chink in my armour, a hole in my bucket.  What should I do?

I am thinking of adding an extra one per day (at lunchtime) until the the missing 3 are made up.  I'm in my prep week at work so could easily stay home if things got a bit difficult.

Missing a dose is quite different to lowering a dose and I am really scared that this will cause a massive dip in my serum levels and one of the mutated little a-holes might have a chance to regrow an arm or what not and get a hold again.

I'm not trying to be humorous, I think that's just the place I go when I'm really freaking.

Any thoughts, advice, experiences, studies, even opinions, will be greatly appreciated!!!

Thanking you in advance...

Epi :)

[epiphiny]

Yup, I think tx has brought out the OCD in me too!!

Here's some irony:  Nursey just rang to tell me hb is down to 97 (9.7) and she wants me to dose reduce by one riba per day.  After all the hou-ha about making up the missing dose, now they want me to take less anyway.

I'm not happy about it yet don't know what to do....  I feel much better than last week and she won't order a blood test for me til next week...  

It would be foolish to disregard her advice (but I want to) and she doesn't seem to think it will come back without a reduction, a break from the fatigue would be awesome, but as we have all discussed before consistency is the key...

Trin, do you really think SVR is decided by now, halfway through week 41?

Feel like I am living on a merry-go-round...but it ain't so merry today...

Btw, no rescue drugs available here in NZ...

[lalapple]

lol Epi, you're such a perfectionist.  but i have to admit, tx has made me very very OCD.

[Trinity4]

OK :)

[Rockerforlife]

i did not say : missing 3 pills at week 40 would not be a life or death situation


i just made a gereral comment how our lives do depend on the meds...

[Trinity4]

Seriously, missing 3 pills at week 40 would not be a life or death situation.  In my opinion, SVR is somewhat if not already determined at this point.  It's more less where our comfort zone is.  I would have skipped and taken the next dosage and been comfortable with that.  Epi felt better making up the dosage.  

[Rockerforlife]

Now you feel better i bet?..isnt it strange how life or death is decided of 3 little pills?