Hepatitis C Support Group

Are you doing daily injections or weekly injections?? TX is really hard on the body,Its not recommended to take a break from TX, But sometimes ya just gotta say fuck it, But I would still get with your TX Doctor for all help on this.

My doctor told me that if I miss taking my pills once or twice that is not bad. But not to miss any of the shots.

Im on weekly injections. I'll pick it up again tomorrow. No missed injections except for procrit and neupogen which make me sick now. (my body may not be responding)
I'll be doing Pegasys tomorrow and back on the pills. ( I cant wait--yipee )Has anyone here taken a break from it all for a week or two?------Tattman you are right! Sometimes you gotta say fuck it and man I was at that point!!!!

I was told that you can take a break from the pills....like a day or two. Anymore than that is not good. I am not gonna berate ya brother cause at the end of the day its your liver, but with this treatment there is a reason they tell ya to take 5 pills a day. If I was you I would call your Doctor and get his advice.

I needed a break as well from ribirivin, but I always do my shot. It is rough and I dont know if I could have managed a year I only have to do 7 mts since I responded so well. My labs went so far down my doc had to let me take a break otherwise he is so stick to the program, So I have been off Ribs for 2 weeks heaven my labs are going back up so he will want me to go back I dont mind the shot its the ribs but time moves yea!~

My GI decreased my dose because I was getting real sick. He bumped it up in less than a month, however, I'm doing more time on TX now...dont know if its related or not. I dont think I would mess with your dose unless your told to. This TX is hell isnt it? Be well and take care.

You needed a break? So does your liver. The virus has been bashing your liver and damaging it.
That's why you were on tx - to clear the virus and give your liver a break and also the ability to heal itself.

Have you done any damage? I don't know. Have you told your dr what you did?

I don't think anyone has said this tx is a walk in the park but if you want to help your liver, you do what's needed. If you really cared about your liver, you would stick with the program and play by the rules.

I'll explain what a big deal is to not take your ribavirin.

The riba pills are designed to weaken your immune system, so that the interferon (shot) "gets to get a to go free pass."

If you do not take the riba especially for a week, well you immune system had time to recuperate a bit, which will lessen the effect of your shot.

If a person takes his riba religiously, the immune system is soo weak that the interferon does it's job at 100%.

In other words, your shot tomorrow will not be able to do it's job perfectly due to the fact that your immune system is protective now."build up"

It might take a couple of weeks until your imuune system is back down enough for the interferon to do it's job at 100%.

Treatment almost killed me, but I knew I just had to go thru the whole thing religiously in order to kill the beast within, like my hubby did.

Hopefully you are genotype 1, that you need to do 48 weeks, this way you might have a chance that it didn't screw up your chance at relapsing post treatment.

Good luck
Mckenzie
One day at the time

Tx is no bed of roses, but doable,if you really want to kill the dragon for good.

I'll explain what a big deal is to not take your ribavirin.

The riba pills are designed to weaken your immune system, so that the interferon (shot) "gets to get a to go free pass."

If you do not take the riba especially for a week, well you immune system had time to recuperate a bit, which will lessen the effect of your shot.

If a person takes his riba religiously, the immune system is soo weak that the interferon does it's job at 100%.

In other words, your shot tomorrow will not be able to do it's job perfectly due to the fact that your immune system is protective now."build up"

It might take a couple of weeks until your imuune system is back down enough for the interferon to do it's job at 100%.

Treatment almost killed me, but I knew I just had to go thru the whole thing religiously in order to kill the beast within, like my hubby did.

Hopefully you are genotype 1, that you need to do 48 weeks, this way you might have a chance that it didn't screw up your chance at relapsing post treatment.

Good luck
Mckenzie
One day at the time

Tx is no bed of roses, but doable,if you really want to kill the dragon for good.

I understand what the Riba does but the sides were so bad that I had not only the usual ones, headache, vomiting, severe anemia, insomnia, confusion, but also BP that was at the danger level. Last week I had a temp of 101 along with everything else. 2 months ago I had to quit a 6 figure job due to the physical and mental strains of this TX. I now make almost nothing and can barely afford meds. I also am a divorced father with custody of my 12 year old son. My break was as much for the mental aspect as anything. I need to figure out some kind of game plan with a clear head (as best as I can). I'll be back on the 6 Riba pills tomorrow (Sat) and the shot at night.