Side Effects from TX Drugs -- New Health Page

[jmjm530]

Epiphiny wrote in another thread:

This is my 2nd tx.  On my first tx I was woefully under prepared, NO ONE had told me how bad it could get and I was completely taken by surprise.  That experience was dreadful, and the fact it was a failed treatment made it even more so.  
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I had been weighing the pro's and con's of starting a "Health Page" on side effects (both during and post treatment) but her post made me decide it was time to start one.

http://www.medhelp.org/health_pages/Hepatitis/Side-Effects-From-the-Treatment-Drugs/show/530?cid=64

[fiver49]

Thanks for this page.  When I asked my doctor about LT side effects she said they were rare. I mentioned this study :

www.hepctrust.org.uk/treatment/Post+Treatment+Survey+Report.htm#headingAnchor1

which shows fairly high rates of post-tx effects (see table 7) and she questioned whether the study controlled for pre-existing conditions-- which it did not.

Does anyone know of any published research on rates of LT after effects of tx and prevention/ treatment of those?

thanks

[epiphiny]

Hey Jim, thank you so much, a great many people are going to benefit from that page :))

[justme53]

Thanks for starting this link.

I've already decided to treat, (well, actually my liver made that decision for me) and threads such as these will be so helpful as I go through tx. Kind of a gauge for me to know when I'm getting into trouble and need to seek medical assistance -  or just to know that I'm not alone with some of my worries.

The only thing that seems to be a given with this tx is that there is no "normal" reaction/response to these meds. This helps make some sense of it all.

Pam