Done - kinda

topic posted Mon, July 3, 2006 - 3:24 PM by  Georgia
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The last shot has been delivered. I don't know why, but I am bawling my eyes out right now. These aren't tears of joy or of relief. They're just tears. And lots of them.

I'm also freaked out because this shot bled quite a bit.



I still have two weeks of the nasty mean pills left. But no more shots.

Why the hell am I crying so hard? Shouldn't I be celebrating?


Damned drugs!
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Georgia
Atlanta
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  • Re: Done - kinda

    Mon, July 3, 2006 - 8:02 PM
    Sounds normal to me with treatment. I does take awhile to get back to normal after treatment. Anyway having been there I understand completely. Hang in there it gets better.
    • Re: Done - kinda

      Mon, July 3, 2006 - 10:39 PM
      Georgia, what a nice visual! I prefer the blue bucket thank you very much. I have to say, from everything you have written, you have really been through it with treatment, you've seemed to have had it all, from the get go. And here you are, d o n e. What a great thing to celebrate on independence day.

      The lovely psych stuff caused by the ribaviron stays for quite a bit after treatment is finished. I'm almost 4 months off and I'm just starting to get a bit of a grip. I had a bizarro experience with the tears also. When I got my first post tx test results back and they were good, the doc got so excited and the other doc hugged me and I was looking at them like wtf, of course they are good. Two or so days later, I was sitting on the end of the bed and I started bawling. It was the first time I was willing to admit to myself how difficult treatment really had been and how scared I was that it wouldn't work. Denial isn't always a bad thing.
  • Re: Done - kinda

    Tue, July 4, 2006 - 12:21 PM
    I think when you get to the end of any difficult journey the emotions are mixed and varied. I wouldn't try to analyze this experience or your current reaction to it too much Georgia. Just try to take it the way you did the battle, one day at a time, work through each emotion as best you can and let all the rest slide on by. You have survived all of the hardships of this experience and are now free to feel anyway you do about it with no expectations of how you should, their uniquely yours just go with them...
    • Re: Done - kinda

      Tue, July 4, 2006 - 1:38 PM
      I felt very much the same. I was so looking forward to finishing treatment yet when I did it was all a bit of an anti-climax. I still felt like an angry person with flu and I had a blub or two, mainly relief I think, that I had finally finished the orrible stuff.
      Six months post tx now and results on the 19th of this month. Nice to have some hair again. Still got a bit of a short fuse though.

      Done-kinda, it will get better, as with all things connected to hep c, it takes time. Treatment also messes with your head a bit too I think.

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