Is anyone currently taking interferon?!


Question: Is anyone currently taking interferon!?
i just started last tues!. i was expecting to feel sick from it!. i did not feel anything out of normal!. i am also taking riboflavin!. i feel tired sometimes after that but it goes away after a couple of hours!. i would like to know your experience with it!.!.!.!.!.Www@Answer-Health@Com


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Me!.!.I'm taking it!. I only have about 4 more weeks to go!. I have lost most of my hair, so I bought a cool wig!. Yeah, being tired is alll part of it!. Just wait til you have been on it for a little while!. I take Procrit for my blood count and have had to have a transfusion a few months back!. I am depressed a lot, but do not want to take the pills!. They all have bad side effects too, and I don't want to have to deal with any more than I already have!. I don't go anywhere too much lately, mostly because of the depression!. The interferon does not bother me!. It never did!. But my doctor said it is what makes me depressed like I am!. I spend a lot of time not doing too much because of a low energy level!. Yours will get worse as it goes along!. I'm almost there!. I just hope it does not take too long to start feeling better once I am off all the drugs!. I have had a terrible rash all over my body while being on the treatment!. It started about 3 or 4 weeks after I started taking the drugs!. It is everywhere and constantly itches!. I got different stuff from the doctors and even a dermatoligist, but none of it really helps!. I get bad headaches!. They tell you to drink a lot of fluids and that will help the headaches!. I drink over a gallon of different stuff every day, and none of it helped the headaches!. I have had lots of muscle aches too!. They say that is part of it all!. Www@Answer-Health@Com

your doing GREAT on treatment! this means your injecting the interferon underneath the skin correctly and you probably don't have any bi-directional diseases or other diseases in combination with hcv-
you may also be drinking enough water too!.!.!.which will greatly reduce side effects!. your probably focused, well informed and are positive!.
you may also be on counteractive medications like zoloft and/or buspar (or other anti-depressants)!.
i will bet on it however that next week will be the week you will have a hard time sleeping- it usually hits the third week!. (due to ribavirin)

other than that, keep up whatever it is your doing!.

i found that hydrating well before the shot helped alot!

good luck and kick some hcv butt!Www@Answer-Health@Com

My husband is currently taking it!. He started in Feb!. He has had some very bad times!. He is extremely tired, and gets naueous when he smells certain foods!. The ribovarin has made him extremely anemic and he has had 2 blood transfusions, the last one was just last week!. Most people don't have the extremes that he has had!. It is the ribavirin that is the hardest on him, but it is the drug that actually does most of the work in the treatment according to his doctors!. They were going to take him off the treatment earlier, but now he is half way, so they will continue it!. He has also lost a lot of his hair, but we know that it will grow back!. The biggest thing is being so tired all the time and not having any stamina when he is trying to do things!. I hope you have good luck with your treatment!. I'm sorry if I painted a bad picture for you, but you asked!. It is a small percentage of people on the treatment that end up getting transfusions, so you will probably be fine!. My husband felt fine in the beginning, he didn't start to feel to bad until about the end of April!.!.!.!.Www@Answer-Health@Com

I have been taking it since May!. I can't wait til it's over!. I feel like crap!. The depression is not bad so far!. But the fatigue is horrible, and I have headaches all the time!. I am well hydrated, I make sure of that, but the headaches are some times too much!. I don't have much of an appetite, they have given me some appetite increasers, but they really don't work that well!. They are concerned because my red and white count has gotten lower and I may have to start taking procrit or something!. I have taken a leave of absence from my job since I am not able to continue right now!. Good luck!.Www@Answer-Health@Com





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