Day 130

Good News from Hershey - after almost 2 weeks of holding tx and then 2 weeks of being on half dosages, tada, I'm still undectable!

I always worry that the virus will raise it's ugly head while I'm down. I think that my Doctor is affaid of that also.

And of course that's exactly why they've raised my dosages back up another level. They put me up to 4 Ribavin a day and now 75 units of Pegasys. If all goes well with my blood counts they'll have me up to 100 units over the couple of weeks.

Good news with that is that it's the best fighting chance against the virus. Bad news is that with taking 75 units last night I'm back to feeling like I've been kicked in the butt this morning.

Yep.....my body hurts, my head is foggy and there is no energy.

My heart raises with any fast movement.

Funny thing about my heart racing is that for years my heart would race and every once and a while I'd go into heart palpitations. A couple of years ago (before I found out about the Hep C)I wound up in surgery having a heart ablation to cauterize the nerve in my heart that causes the palpitations. Now I have no palpitations but my heart still races. They used to blame the racing on my Mitral Valve but all the Doctors said that after the surgery I should be off of the Inderol (heart med). My heart should not still be racing. But it did and they didn't understand it....I knew Inderol would control the racing so I continued to take it and they continued to prescribe it.

Here's the clincher....Now I know what the racing is....now I can identify what it is. I'd had it all these years and everyone just assumed that it was my heart.
The trigger or nerve they cauterized did need to go because it kept getting aggravated by my heart racing and it would set off causing my heart to beat at up to 220 beats per minute (painful stuff), so I don't regret the surgery.

But what causes my heart to race? It's fatigue from Hep C and from Tx!

I never knew what fatigue was until now. I always assumed that fatigue meant that you're just tired, but that's only part of it. Fatigue causes my heart to race and drains the energy from my body.

Funny thing is that I still continue to take the Inderol. Even though the Inderol makes me a little tired, it slows down the racing and it makes it a little more comfortable for me. Doc. says that that's alright as long as my blood pressure remains ok.

When this is all over I'll ween off of the Inderol.

Well that's it for today.....My little drummer boy is strumming my neck muscles and I'm grabbing the Tylenol to get him off of my back!

I'll end up in the hot tub by the end of this day.

Have a Nice Saturday!