So someone reached out to me after reading my blog post years ago about Post Interferon Headaches, and I simply wish I had more to give them. The sad truth is that I do not. Myself and the one other person I know that went through Interferon both suffer with VERY consistent and painful headaches. We both take different medications from time to time, Prodrin, Sudafed seems to knock them out sometimes, the real kind, with pseudophedrine, not the fake shit they try to peddle on us, the real deal they make meth out of, haha, but frankly even that only works about half the time, and I hate the way it makes me feel these days.
I wrote more about this years back, but having someone reach out, made me realize I’m still struggling with the same issue. My current, as in right now, strategy, is to take topomax and see if this helps, but it takes a few weeks to get up to the proper dosage. As I type I have a headache and the topomax feels like what the immitrex, celexa, wellbutrin and everything else did, a poor mask and substitute.
I sure as hell wish we could find a damn attorney willing to take on a class action lawsuit, but I guess the fact that it saved our lives makes us looks ungrateful and therefore not a fantastic court case, but they phased out our form of medication for a new shorter version, because the version we took created, haha, flu like symptoms, which is like calling Chemotherapy, PMS.
Look – I’m grateful, I am, I’d be dead otherwise, but it’s been almost ten years, and me and everyone I know that has ever taken Interferon with Ribavirin is still suffering, and that is some bullshit.
That said, again I’m alive, I’m cured of Hepatitis C, and I’m grateful, truly.
I’m also very successful in software sales, and able to power through with different kinds of medication, it can be done. I’m not doctor, and had I been, I think I’d have lost the ability to focus that effectively. My concentration is lacking, and my number skills, which used to be in the 99th percentile are definitely no longer in that range. I know interferon caused permanent damage to the way i think feel and compute, but you know, I compensate in other ways.
Books4free.com is right around the corner with a relaunch, the book too is being revamped, thanks for reading. If you still trudge or stumbled on this site, keep on trucking, maybe they’ll create something soon that clears it up. They cured Hep C didn’t they!!
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