Welcome To My "HEP C" Life

Hepatitis C is a blood disease that affects the liver. There is a tx that I am now on which is a mixture of "interferon" injections 1x a week and 1200mg in pill form of "Ribavirin" dailly. This is an extreme and rigorous 48 week treatment and I have started september 22nd 2006

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Location: moundsview, Minnesota, United States

Tuesday, September 26, 2006

More water please?



Found out today that i might be drinking too much water. I might be flushing out my inteferon that I inject once a week. Well isn't that just great. Before I started treatment, I drank a lot of water. Now, I try to drink more. What the interferon is is a toxin. I Have done some reading up on this and still am not sure. I will try to get a hold of my nurse tomorrow to see what she has to say about this. if I am just flushing the toxins out of my body,It could explain why my side effects haven't been so bad. I need those toxins for killing. I would rather have side effects and the possibility of this treatment working, than feel good and not have the treatment work. I'm off to bed now. Its time for me to sleep.

P.S. All I had energy for that I could do for yardwork was blowing the driveway off and blowing the leaves into 2 piles and putting those into bags. Then I went to my meeting, then went over to josh's. I need to learn to pace myself and tomorrow work on mowing the front yard. If I have to I can always use the riding lawnmower to mow the grass. I just would like to get a little bit of excercise in, but its really hard to when you don't have any energy...

Funny thing my mom said to me today.. well, I thought it was funny. She asked me how I was doing and I said "I'm feeling tired" she said "GOOD, Thats how your supposed to be feeling." Leave it to mom's to set you straight. This is how I am supposed to be feeling, Not only do I have Hepatitis C, but I'm on a treatment with side effects, And wouldn't you guess, Feeling tired is one of those side effects

1 Comments:

Blogger TeaStarWitch said...

Hi there
I'm from the forum. Interferon is not toxin, it's a chemical usually naturally produced by your body when it's needed. What we inject, it's just bigger ammount of it. Just a little reminder: when you have flu, how do you feel? Same thing.
Best wishes
Tea

9/27/2006 4:03 PM  

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