Stage 3 Incivek Rash

[DresdenO]

I've noticed its difficult to find good illustrations of a stage 3 - severe Incivek rash. I've developed one in the last two weeks and have posted a couple of photos to illustrate it on my personal journal as well as the one here. I go to the hospital in a couple of hours where I think they'll admit me, to monitor the rash more closely. I finished my twelfth week of Incivek on Monday. The question now is whether the rash can now be brought under control without suspending the interferon/riba for the next twelve weeks and I would welcome input from anyone who has had a similar experience. I understand the Incivek takes about 6 days to clear the body. I began treating aggressively with a heavy steroid cream last night and there has been noticeable improvement. I can provide more details of the dazzling array of medications I'm currently on if anyone is interested. I was UND at 4 weeks and waiting on the 12 week pcr.

[DresdenO]

hm, you could be right, my docs thought it  was still Incivik related; its just  that it is so obviously a different phenomenon, a second wave or something. Mysterious...

[Advocate1955]

DresdenO, I don't think the riba rash generally has ulcers or blisters. I would say that could still be part of the Incivek reaction. I put tea tree oil on those when my hubby got them.

[sph0611]

Tada123, I'm so glad you mentioned the warts. They have been showing up on me as well. I showed them to my hep doctor and he said it had nothing to do with treatment. I find that hard to believe since I never had them before. On a side note, I washed my hair tonight and as I combed it out it was coming out in fistfuls. I wish I knew how much I was going to lose. I have to say this is one of the most stressful sx.

[tada123]

WARTS proliferated abundantly on my chest, back, shoulders and face. Specifically flat warts.  Derma said it was due to weak immune system.  My condition didn't look like yours, but I offer this info just FYi for the community.

[DresdenO]

Sunday update: not much to report. They started me on Prednisalone, first intravenous then oral  to suppress the Incivik reaction, on top of topicals and they're tapering it now after a week. The rash has fallen into line but interestingly an entirely new and different one has appeared which I assume is related to the Riba. Unlike the generalized incivek rash it is these discrete little ugly ulcers with ochre brown scabs, rather disgusting. Since they took me off the Pegasys and Riba last Tuesday, I think its just leaving a calling card on the way out of my body and hope it peaks in a day or two then starts to recede. I'm being well looked after here in the Krankenhaus - except for the medieaval internet arrangements which took some finagling - and they expect to release me in two or three more days. Salve head to toe twice a day and the oral steroids, plus a couple of antihistamines to manage the symptoms. The itching has all but disappeared. I was given a vaseline based cream for a few days which was really awful, it doesn't let the skin breath and I think it only aggravated the rash and itching, i'm insisting on cremes or milks at the moment. And I must say, i am feeling daily better in my head, and now look back at the period of a couple of weeks ago as something like a psychotic episode, I was in some sort of altered state, my head was so messed up by everything! So good to start  feeling my old self again. I see I still have a hell of a temper which i ascribe to the Riba - I just called a fellow at the pastry shop an '*******' for not giving me change for a five euro note, even though I'm a daily customer. Well...he was an *******, no? All the best to my friends here!

[rivll]

Good luck to you.
I wish you all the best.