What to eat

[CatLil]

What kind of foods do you eat to get the 20gr of fat you need with the Incivik?

[jodao]

thanks you are so kind for replying.  yeah i did forget about the zyrtec.  I'll see if I still have some.  I try anything until I feel it works even alittle.  Even a placebo effect can cause alittle relief for a minute.  I am on wellbutrin.  Funny cause it did help me to quit smoking as well.  The wellbutrin gives me a little pick me up which is good. and now I am going to bed and going for the ointment and later I will get up and use the calamine lotion.  It would seem one just cancels out the other but like i said...I'll try anything.  Good to know that maybe this rash will clear up in a few areas and of course move to another.  This is definitely the "Riba rash".  This past yr before tx I did not have much of a rash only itching without any sign of bumps ...rash whatever...sometimes ....privately i call it the creeping crud.  2 yrs ago I thought bugs were eating me alive.  Not like I have bugs but had no idea what was happening to me then.  Oh well..stayed at my mom's today for a few hrs as to not be alone.  Maybe tomorrow will be a better day.  As alway I am extremely grateful to all who respond.

[pooh55811]

Okay, you are on the strong ointment. I see you had the itching before treatment. Maybe that has something to do with it. I don't know. I just know my itching is from a Riba rash and the meds do help even though I still have the rash 2 months after it started. It moves around. I clear up a few areas and the rash moves next door, kind of like quack grass or creeping jenny, lol. I know it would be considerably worse without the meds.

Hydroxyzine probably does make me sleepy but the zyrtec does not.

I don't know your history and I don't know if you are already on antidepressants, but interferon can cause depression so you may want to talk with your doc (preferably a psychiatrist) about an antidepressant if you are depressed. I am on one and I am sure it has helped me stay stable while on treatment.

I hope things get better for you.

[jodao]

thanks yeah that's it I do use that fluocinide ointment and not the otc stuff.  I guess it is better than nothing.  I try all the above.  of course I would sleep all day if I took the hydroxzine and zytec daily and that would get me all depressed.  I think depression is worse of the 2 evils. I always appreciate the comments. and I usually learn something new.

[pooh55811]

I know about the itching as I have had a bad rash and itching since mid. Dec. I am on 20 mg. Hydroxyzine every night, 10 mg. Zyrtec every am, and fluocinonide ointment twice a day to the rash. I can tell you that the Hydrocortizone cream (over the counter) did nothing for this rash and itching, and that is why I am on the fluocinonide ointment, which is stronger and also an ointment. It relieves the itching within minutes usually. I would be nuts without it. Perhaps ask your doc for a stronger cream or ointment. The ointment is greasy but it stays on your skin.

[jodao]

oh can't they give me some iron if my blood level are low?  Such as rbc's and hemoglobin etc... won't that help so that I can breath better after walking and not feel so week in the legs? again I just feel like a cry baby today

[jodao]

oh my bilirubin is slightly high not much as before it was 44 and cholestyramine helped then didn't.  It wasn't consistent but at least it works when the itching was real bad.  It binds to the billirubin and eliminates it from the blood.  So I am taking that again.  Still itching.  I suffered with that for the last few years and it started to get better but this triple tx is making it almost intolerable again.  You would think I would be use to it.  I can never get use to this itiching.  Then there are those well meaning people that believe I should try "cures doctors do not want you to know about"  as if I'm not confused and agitated enough.  The hep c has progress to cirrhosis so I don't think a vitamin or mineral will cure it do you?  I wish.