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

Saturday, November 04, 2006

Shot #7 out of 48 ( Closer to being done than I was yesterday)

It's saturday morning, 3:15am. I took my 7th shot yesterday and I actually feel better since I took my shot than I did the last couple days.

I've had a few bad tiring days where I've been laid up in my sheets the last many days. . I still feel out of it. I think I'm coming out if it, but who knows. It's been mostly sleep for me. What am I talking about, its been all about sleep for me. Just too low of energy to do anything else. Getting up to go to the bathroom was too exhausting and so was making myself something to eat. Even my t.v. watching has declined.


Someone mentioned I get on some Anti-depressents. I'm not sure if I want to head that way right yet. I am not depressed, just very physically tired. And thats the effects of the treatment. But laying around in bed all day doesn't bring the emotions the best of smiles, does it? Still I don't feel like I want to take anti depressants. I Have been on them in the past and do not like how I feel if I miss a day or really any of the side effects of them. Then if that pill doesn't work I have to start all over on a new one and see what those effects are. I really don't like that. I think I will just stick to the fun side effect of the Interferon and the ribavirin and if those become too much, I hope I will have the guts to give in and try some anti-depressants.