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Hepatitis C Main Forums => On Hepatitis C Treatment => Topic started by: Abbas Girl on July 28, 2014, 04:18:47 pm
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I am geno type 1a and I am day 20 into my treatment and I am still having a rash. I can control it with Benedryl but just wondered if this is common to others taking this same treatment? I feel better than I did 3 weeks ago, other than the rash and super sensitive to the sun, so I just stay in doors. I have become an outside night person but the mosquito's love me also. I was also wondering at the end of the 12 week treatment, how long until the sun sensitivity stops?
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i guess i am one of the lucky ones. I just started the 4th week of treatment and other than a queasy stomach the first day or two I have really not had any side effects. I seem to have no sensitivity to sun. I have gone for several long bike rides on hot sunny days in shorts and a tank top and have not even gotten burned.
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Back on 02 I had terrible ribavirin rash. I went to a dermatologist and he made life under treatment tolerable. Didn't achieve SVR. If you see a dermatologist make sure he/she knows what you are taking and not to prescribe anything that has an interaction with your meds. My hepc doc got me in the same day to see a dermatologist who was his neighbor. If I go on Solvadi/Olysio I plan to have a dermatologist appointment about day 5 of treatment. I get rashes without treatment sometimes. Good Luck.
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Thank you both for your reply. If I can achieve a non-detectable viral load at at 4 weeks (which will be next week) then the rash will be well worth it! I do have it under control with other meds my doctor gave me, but sure wish it would just "go away".