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Hepatitis C Main Forums => Post Hepatitis C Treatment => Topic started by: Nobody Special on June 17, 2015, 01:43:24 pm
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One year after SVR & suddenly am experiencing the following sides
nausea
dizziness
constipation
+ slight occasional shortness of breath
This has been the case for over a month now.
I was on a 5-part combo from Abb-Vie:
ABT-450/r, a protease inhibitor taken with ritonavir; the NS5A inhibitor ABT-267; the non-nucleoside polymerase inhibitor ABT-333; and ribavirin
Also, bloodwork found glucose at 112, and will take follow-up test of determine if diabetes is in the picture.
Apologies for previous post being too dense.
Anyone else in the group having similar post- symptoms, (Abb-Vie or not) ?
Thank you.
Yours, in health,
Nobodhi
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Was that a fasting glucose? What is the normal range for your lab? For my lab 100 is max normal for fasting. If you had eaten before the glucose test 112 could be totally normal.
What does your doctor say about your glucose test result?
The rest I have no idea what does your doctor say about your symptoms?
Congrats on your SVR
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No it wasn’t a fasting glucose -- and may be a false flag
Am too dizzy right now to write anything coherent ... thanks. Lyn
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Not really a false flag my test says in the notes standard for fasting only no standard for non fasting so basically a glucose test result doesn't mean much if it is Non fasting.
If you have concerns about your glucose you should repeat the test when fasting
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False flag may have been the wrong phrase, or out of context, apologies ( am dizzy & nauseous ). It’s the dizziness fatigue & nausea (+ constipation ) that presents itself, & about which I’m perplexed, shall we say -- like, why? what’s going on ? Has anyone else had similar sides, from a clinical trial (AbbVie or not) ... if so, what did they find out about it ( diagnosis, prognosis, Rx ) ...
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I'm unclear why you're calling these symptoms sides. If you are one-year post treatment it seems that these symptoms are indicative of an undiagnosed medical condition.
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Good point sides or side effects are from a medicine
side ef·fect
noun
plural noun: side effects
a secondary, typically undesirable effect of a drug or medical treatment.
"many anticancer drugs now in use have toxic side effects"
While symptoms are what are experienced as a result of a medical condition
symptom
[simp-tuh m]
Synonyms
Examples
Word Origin
noun
1.
any phenomenon or circumstance accompanying something and serving as evidence of it.
2.
a sign or indication of something.
3.
Pathology. a phenomenon that arises from and accompanies a particular disease or disorder and serves as an indication of it.
Since you no longer have any medicines in your system they would be symptoms of some medical condition.
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Thank you for posting this. We are all learning as we take these medicines. They are new and we won't know all of the adverse post-treatment effects until we gather information from one another. Please keep us updated on what you find out about why you are experiencing these symptoms. Can you email me your longer version?
One year after SVR & suddenly am experiencing the following sides
nausea
dizziness
constipation
+ slight occasional shortness of breath
This has been the case for over a month now.
I was on a 5-part combo from Abb-Vie:
ABT-450/r, a protease inhibitor taken with ritonavir; the NS5A inhibitor ABT-267; the non-nucleoside polymerase inhibitor ABT-333; and ribavirin
Also, bloodwork found glucose at 112, and will take follow-up test of determine if diabetes is in the picture.
Apologies for previous post being too dense.
Anyone else in the group having similar post- symptoms, (Abb-Vie or not) ?
Thank you.
Yours, in health,
Nobodhi
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Dizziness and nausea are two of the more common and nonspecific symptoms in all of medicine. The possible causes are extensive. What is extremely unlikely is the association of those, as new symptoms, to a course of medications completed a year ago.
One of the most common causes of dizziness, nausea, and constipation as a set of symptoms, is dehydration. That dehydration may not be obvious as to cause, onset, or objective signs. Meaning heart rate, blood pressure, dry mouth, the numerous causes, and so forth. May not be entirely obvious to you, your state of hydration. For example new onset diabetics often think they cannot be dehydrated because they drink A LOT of fluids. But they are. Often profoundly. They lose more fluid than they take in. Can occur very gradually. Of course dehydration is only one of many causes of these symptoms.
Point is there are a whole host of causes of dizziness, nausea, and constipation, all astromonically more likely than medications completed a year ago, or even the disease hepatitis C itself. Evaluation and treatment by a reliable physician is of course the remedy.
Phil