Interferon therapy week 7

I’m in my 7th week of Interferon therapy and have received the first results of the viral load in my blood. I have gone from a count of 250,000 to less than 25. These are encouraging results and tells me the therapy is working. The doctor had to make an adjustment to my Ribavirin, an oral medication that I take that prevents the replication of the Hepatitis C virus. My doctor changed the dosage from 6 200mg caps( 1.2 gm) to 5 200mg caps(1.0gm) because my hemoglobins had become so low. This my explain the fatigue I have been experiencing. I expect a successful outcome of the therapy with 41 weeks to go.

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