Pre Tx Brain Fog/sides?

[azgrl]

I haven't started tx yet however will as soon as my gallbladder is out and I have recovered.  I have been reading this site since my diagnosis in September 05.  One of the common tx sides is "brain fog"  I was wondering if anyone experienced this prior to tx?  I have always prided myself on how organized I was in my mind and my memory however slowly my memory is getting worse and worse over the past year.  I will ask my husband a question and he'll say I've already asked him 3 or 4 times in the last hour...but I don't remember asking him.  Thankfully he is a very patient person.  I don't even want to think what I will be like on tx.  The other things I have experienced were fatigue and urq.  I'm assuming these are related to the hepc with the exception of the urq since we found out that was the gallbladder not the liver.

Anyway just curious if anyone else experience these. And no I don't think it's old age....as I will never be old!!  : )

Deb in az

[Forseegood]

Tues Night Funnies

An 80 year old woman was arrested for shop lifting.  When she went before the judge he asked her, "What did you steal?"
  She replied:  a can of peaches.
  
  The judge asked her why she had stolen them and she replied that she was hungry.
  
  The judge then asked her how many peaches were in the can.  She replied 6.
  
  The judge then said, "I will give you 6 days in jail."
  
  Before the judge could actually pronounce the punishment the woman's husband spoke up and asked the judge if he could say something.
  
He said, "What is it?"
  
  The husband said "She also stole a can of peas."
  

[Forseegood]

hey Mr. Man> hope everything is okay on your end...be well...

[vegas777]

is that you or an imposter  lol

[GoofyDad]

<a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve&db=pubmed&dopt=Abstract&list_uids=15972867&query_hl=1&itool=pubmed_DocSum">This study</a> (which is often referred to in here as the Italian study) found that there was  essentially no penalty for truncating geno 2 & 3 treatments to 12 weeks when 4 week RVR was achieved. The full study is available for about 10 bucks at the New England Journal of Medicine site. I think this study was based on peg-intron and 800 mg of riba). Another study using pegasys got similar results based on 16 weeks of TX for genos 2 & 3.

[Forseegood]

Please dont think that I'm am advocating that everyone do shorter treatment times, I'm not ready for a the slings and arrows, ha ha! There has been a lot of talk lately about some new studies and EVR, Jim can tell you a lot about this as well...it depends on how fast you clear, etc. and it seems that a lot of people are saying their docs are paying special attention to this and changing their attitudes about treatment times, etc.

Also, I talked to my doc about upping dosages and treatment times and he seems to think that some people are getting too carried away with this and he hasn't seen a lot of data that warrants it in most cases, he has plenty of patients who cleared on normal dosing and treatment times...these meds either agree with you or they don't, he says...just my docs take and there are plenty of docs who disagree I'm sure....that's why he thinks that some people can treat for shorter periods, because the meds seem to work really well on some people, (with EVR indicating that) and they can probably do shorter times....

[SnoWav]

I had the fog for a few years before TX also had arm numbness and pain,coulden't sleep and a bunch of other stuff.In a week or two after starting TX all those things got better even the fog cleared,After a few months on TX a different fog rolled in and it got a little darker as well as foggy. TX ended  Jan 6th and feeling much better than before TX. All the fog is lifting .Aloha