Starting Treatment with Incivek

[coo19]

This coming Friday I will start taking Pegasys, Copegus and Incivek to treat chronic HCV and I was wondering if anyone has already started treatment using all 3 drugs and what they have experienced as far as side effects? I'm trying to get some idea of just how sick I will be over the next 6 months from this treatment but can not find anyone who has taken all 3 drugs. Incivek was just approved and there isn't much information available except what the pharmacuetical companys list and I would just like to hear it from someone who has taken the medications together and lived through the side effects.

[shanro]

I was actually looking forward to the weight loss... I'm thinking the gain is due to a combo of the 60g of fat a day along with water retention seeing how I went from never drinking water to drinking a gallon a day...

[HDCoop]

So, how are the treatments going?  Had you went through them before?  Hope you are handling the side effects alright.


Good luck!!!

[HDCoop]

Wow you gained weight?  My first round of treatments, I lost 80lbs, it was the shot a night round, totally did me in.

I've already started drinking water, I quit drinking anything else a couple of months ago, not for the treatment..didn't know about the new treatment yet, just decided to quit drinking sodas and such.  So I'm a little ahead of myself then the last 2 times.  I know it was hard to even look at water for a while after drinking so much during the treatments.  

Don't know yet, but my last doc that put me on the treatments said it was an oz of water per lb that you weighed.  At that time I weighed 230lbs, so it 230ozs of water a day.

Good luck

[HDCoop]

Thanks for all the information.  I will start the process and see what I can get done ahead of time.  I hate dealing with health insurance companies, you pay for it and then when you need it, there is always something that they won't pay for.  Again thanks!

[shanro]

Also for anyone who "hates" drinking water: I never drank water until I started this....  Drinking water now has become a constant since one of my side effects is excessive thirst...

[shanro]

Yaaaay I am not alone! I started aug 3rd and have had only 2 shots so far and so far my biggest complaints are the headaches and joint pain... Oh and the fact that I gained 10 lbs the first week.... Anybody else have this problem?