Trying to figure this out.

[Diane12855]

After being on tx for almost 12 weeks, I am seeing a huge variation of sx from week to week and wondering if it has anything to do with where I give myself the shot. I take my shot of Friday evening at about 6:00, and usually feel OK till Sat. evening, then things get worse till Monday and level out for Tuesday and maybe Wednesday. Some weeks I feel pretty good on Thursday and Friday, but some weeks I feel horrible those days. I notice the fat in the center of my stomach seems to be a different consistency than the fat more to the side, and I'm wondering if that causes it to take longer to get into my blood stream.

Anybody else notice a difference?

[nygirl7]

I got a lot of this info from Dr. Oz's "

Be careful of Dr. Oz - a lot of what he says is completely and totally bogus and we've had plenty of comments in here about him and HepC and all the falsehoods he has promoted recently.  Unless of course anyone believes hepc sexborne disease and not a blood borne disease - then he was on the $$$.

[GSDgirl]

I like Dr Oz but I saw the show where stated hep c was sexually transmitted and I lost a good bit of faith.

Diane, I am done with TX so don't worry about finding the links, I don't need them.  But thank you

Denise

[Diane12855]

I know about his blunder with the hep c info. I think it was unwise of him to speak about something he doesn't deal with on a regular basis.

He does deal with dietary health issues regularly though. As well as doing cardiac surgery, so I think it is safe to listen to him about those issues. I did my research last November when I first started having chest pains and TIAs. Thank goodness I don't have them any more... based on his recommendations.

[mikesimon]

The idea that injection site determines the extent of side effects is dubious - at best.

The insulin article was addressing Humalog and Regular insulin both of which are fast acting insulins. They peak within 1 to 3 hours. That can be very important when trying to offset the carbohydrates ingested at meal and snack times. Pegylated interferons don't act quite that rapidly and the site of the injection has no bearing on the time of the onset or the degree/magnitude of side effects - with the obvious exception of injection site skin issues.

Mike

[nygirl7]

I'd imagine if it did the doctor would say 'inject yourself exactly 2 and 6/8ths inches away from your belly button on the left hand side at exactly 90 degrees'......or something like that.

I just set up the shot and then jammed it where it went - worked just fine. I would not obsess about this as we obsess about so many things arleady.

[Diane12855]

I am not obsessing, just curious. Besides how could you know the answer to this question? You don't have any abdominal fat ... lucky lady... so you don't know how different the consistency is.