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Hepatitis C Main Forums => Post Hepatitis C Treatment => Topic started by: MyFriendJimi on October 09, 2017, 04:40:15 am
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hi. thanks for sharing your stories. i browsed all 12 pages of forum topics in this post treatment group. i have questions, my doctors don't have answers. maybe somebody in this forum can point me in the right direction.
other than Hep C i have been a very fortunate and healthy person. i don't wear glasses, no food or drug allergies, nothing. i'm in my 60s now, have a small amount of extra stress on the portal vein which is being controlled by propranolol, and overall just a very small amount of negative impact on my liver. i finished a 12-month horrible, body ravaging, debilitating regimen of the old school triple play (telaprevir, interferon, ribavirin) in August 2012. my viral load is still none, thank God!! but during treatment, and still FIVE YEARS AFTER TREATMENT, i have four specific problems that come and go as they please:
1. RANDOM RASH: usually on the right calf, sometimes both, has also sprung up on the arms. the area swells, it hurts, it gets blood red or purple, it itches like mad. and it hurts! i never got rashes for any reason before treatment.
---what the doctors said: a biopsy and skin scraping ruled out lichen planus and anything they could put a specific name on. they called it regular old contact dermatitis, allergic reaction to new soap or something. wrong!! incorrect!!
2. PUFFY PAINFUL EYE SOCKETS: both eyes, comes on suddenly for no reason. it hurts. my eyeballs itch, my eye sockets itch, and it hurts!! i never had this happen before treatment.
---what the doctors said: regular old contact dermatitis, allergic reaction to new shampoo or something. wrong!! incorrect!!
3. CRAMPS IN FINGERS AND TOES: only occasionally, for no reason at all, and man does it hurt! i need nimble fingers for my job so this is scaring me. i never had cramping before treatment. i never asked the docs about this because the other issues were definitely more pressing at the time.
4. PSORIASIS: this crap started at the end of treatment, elbows, hands, knuckles, knees, calves, and "other" areas too. >:( i'm on daily meds for it now. i still have it, although not nearly as severe. but it has never 100% disappeared. my fingernails are slightly affected with nail psoriasis. my toenails were absolutely destroyed from nail psoriasis. i will never be a foot model. :-[
i welcome any help i can get. i'm grateful that the poison saved me from the dragon. but i'm also pissed off that i have all of this leftover "stuff" and i appear to be alone! no one else seems to have physical problems years after treatment. why am i the lucky one?
do doctors or researchers follow up with people who have completed treatment? are there compiled logs or studies that track the after effects of treatment?
thanks.
p.s. i would be more than happy to share photos but i can't for the life of me figure out how to do that with this thigamabob! 8) what's a tiny portal?
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Hey Jimi,
What a warrior you are surviving the triple play tx.
You are not alone. I have a close musician friend who went through same tx in Hawaii and has severe probs.. mostly mental. His biggest complaint is he just doent feel like himself and gets paranoid at anything.
He had bad sides, (mine were so bad I had to stop tx after 4 weeks) and fell into a depression on tx.
He was "cured" the virus in 2003 but he feels he traded one dragon for a kick in the head that wont go away. So you are def not alone.
I'll follow along and I hope you feel better.
Best always,
Greg