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does it really ever get better?

My wife has three more weeks to go on her treatment and the mood swings anger and irrational behavior is getting worse. I love my wife very much but I dont know how much  more I can take. she is violent rude and tonight she left
with her dogs and said she was getting a motel for the night because I didnt read her mind and make dinner excatly the way she would have done it. I dont mean to sound like I dont have compassion for what she is going thru,but I am just about over the edge. I got laid off from my job on friday and she had some kinda problem at work on thursday and she would not even talk about it. he said she didnt understand it so how could I possibly .I am so tired of being treated like I am nothing. I have tried to be understanding but there seems to be a double standard. she works late that's ok. I finally have someone interested in my music and they want to hear some things from my catolog and I am trying to put it together,I am told they aint gonna listen anyway? I really think maybe Im going crazy, I just want to run away sometimes and I know that is wrong but I thought a marriage was an equal partnership not a dictatorship maybe I am just whining for nothing I dont know
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206807 tn?1331936184
He could try this

A husband had just finished reading a new book entitled,

“You Can Be THE Man of Your House.”

He stormed to his wife in the kitchen and announced, "From now on, you need to know that I am the man of this house and my word is Law. You  will prepare me a gourmet meal tonight, and when I'm done eating my  meal, you will serve me a scrumptious dessert. After dinner, you are  going to go upstairs with me and we will have the kind of sex that I want!

Afterwards, you are going to draw me a bath so I can relax. You will  wash my back and towel me dry and bring me my robe. Then, you will  massage my feet and hands. Then tomorrow, guess who's going to dress me and comb my hair?"

The wife replied, "The funeral director would be my first guess."

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206807 tn?1331936184
The question was “does it really ever get better?” I don’t think anyone can give an answer without looking at her past behavior.
He also went into detail describing his relationship thus opening up for our opinions. Everyone that responded saying her behavior is caused by tx is also giving their opinion. My opinion (which was asked for) is, I doubt things are going to get better.
He asked a treatment question and it is getting answered.
However, there is 2 sides to every story and we are only hearing his version.

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577132 tn?1314266526
With respect to all, this IS a Hep C Help Forum.  Not a relationship/counselling forum.  

The question was asked "can the meds cause this behavior" and I believe this is the answer we should be endeavoring to respond to.

Whether we "buy" what this person is saying is irrelevant, they have asked a seemingly sincere treatment related question.

They have not asked us for our opinions on their relationship, nor have they asked for our opinions of their significant other.

Who are we to judge?
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206807 tn?1331936184
Everyone seems to be focusing on the effects of treatment and over looking her prior mental condition.

“If  this were the first time she said she hates me,I would say okay it's the meds.but it is the third time the other two before the treatments”

She told him twice prior to the Meds, She Hates Him

.”It seems as long as I just do whatever she says things are fine”.

This is pretty much self-explanatory

“And she has always been a very controling person”

Refer to above

“She lost her mom last year and was devastated when her mother cut her out of her will.because she sold her mothers home and had her deamed mentally uncapable to make her own decsions.”

Let’s see’ she deemed her mother mentally incapable to make her own decisions and sold her mother's house. Afterwards she was devastated because of being cut out of the will???????

”I  didnt realize that i you dont do what she says she will make you”

Refer to above

I am not buying it
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320078 tn?1278344720
I can only tell you my experience. Yes the meds effected my mental health!!!!!!!  It would be either crying, or raging mad.   If someone had cut me off on the road, I would chase the car.  If my husband said how do you feel?  my answer would "how do you think i feel?"

My mood was like a roller coaster and Kenny (my husband) never knew what he was walking into,

I like Dragon, gave husband and my children the literature to read.  The support of my family and friends got me through treatment.

Good luck!!
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577132 tn?1314266526
Actually, I felt like I was suffering from drug induced psychosis on my first treatment.

It is not possible to quantify someone else's experience so please do not try to tell me what I did or did not experience.

Also, for women, the treatment drugs also affect our hormone production and levels.  You have heard of PMS, yes?  Mix that with an historical tendency to mood swings, some severe serotonin depletion in the form of interferon, riba,  and lack of sleep, and a good helping of cortisol from emotional stress and worry about whether this treatment is going to work or not and you are looking a pretty potent molotov cocktail just waiting for a match.
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