Congrats. To me its very clear that the higher the doses the better the results.
Red
Triple doses of peg, wonder what that does to your whites? 180 mg peg and my ANC is borderline. Must admit though, despite losing some weight, I have eaten lots of protein and vegetables, (lots of junk food too) and have never had a problem with anemia. I force myself to eat, it may stick in my throat sometimes, (gag) but I make myself eat. Maybe that has something to do with it?
Strangest treatment regime ive ever come across...wine, spinach and triple doses of Peg..and low protien and you say you took aspirin too?...WOW
~~~Not to mention all that spinach
Unless you're Popeye, maybe ; )
Not sure if that link went to the right spot, so I'll just copy and paste my post from that thread:
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Welcome to the group.
As Mr. Liver indirectly suggests, just because you became SVR doesn't mean what you did (or took) was helpful or would be to others. In other words you no doubt became SVR in spite of some of the things you did and took, not because of them. Mr. Liver mentions two hepato-toxic drugs as one example, as well as aspirin, which was the one pain killer my liver specialist told me to stay away from. (His choice and the choice of many other liver specialists is Tynlenol).
You also say in another recent post that you drank red wine 3X week during treatment. Again, I can state with assurity that you became SVR in spite of the red wine during treatment and not because of it.
As to your triple dose of interferon, I'd also be interested in the specifics of your dosing, because my knee jerk reaction is that you couldn't have had that much interferon on hand because of insurance reasons and what probably happened is that you took the full syringe, instead of a partial syringe, which would not be a triple dose but just maybe a certain per cent more. Speculation here, but the exact dosing would be helpful.
Hopefully you don't take this as a criticism, but when a geno 1 posts they became SVR after only 16 weeks, there is always the posssiblity that someone new will start jotting down all the things the person did to become SVR. I applaud your SVR but would hate to see people go out and buy aspirin, take hepa-toxic drugs, and drink wine 3X week on treatment. Not to mention all that spinach which contains oxalic acid.
-- Jim
Someone finally picked that up. LOL.
I covered some of the other stuff here:
http://www.medhelp.org/posts/show/686790
ARE YOU MAD?....drinking with tx drugs?..you need a doctor alright...a shrink...sorry...but facts are facts