Re: dont judge !!

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CINDY, FOR ONE I DONT FEEL SORRY FOR MYSELF, FOR ANOTHER YOUR OPINON MEANS

NOTHING TO ME!! RHONDA

RHONDA

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Dear Rhonda

I know you been getting some hard feedback this last week, including the one I

sent you. I just wanted to tell you I am sorry I went off on the subject of

alcholism. I really hope you do well,. This disease is rotten and none of us

deserve it and the stigma that goes with it. I hope you respond to treatment.

My best wishes to you.

Kathleen

rhonda scott <shammie62@...> wrote:

CINDY, FOR ONE I DONT FEEL SORRY FOR MYSELF, FOR ANOTHER YOUR OPINON MEANS

NOTHING TO ME!! RHONDA

RHONDA

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My boyfriend is on tx week 10 so far. he ias a candidate and he has bipolar,

paranoid schizophrenia, diabetes, high blood pressure and he is stage 4 hep c

with cirrosis. he is so far ok. but he is being followed by his mental health

doctors and his primary care doctor and his hep doctor. i also have hep c but am

not doing tx yet, but i can if i choose to. i have had depression all my life

and asthma. i dont understand why you wouldnt be a candidate. you deserve to

give it a shot also.

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Hello Kathleen,

I know what you mean about the insomnia causing the problem. For as many

years as I can remember, I have had severe insomnia. No amount of lifestyle

changes did any good. I told the doctors I believed the insomnia had caused

much of the severe depression I had. Only this year, have doctors ever agreed

with me. I have told them this over 25 years. I have gone without sleep a

couple of weeks, for my longest time. It is every night if I don't have the

medication. I was given a rx for Ambiem by my primary doctor this year. It

was the first time I could remember my dreams in years. Even though it is ok

for long use, as well as others like Rozerem Halcion and Lunesta, my insurance

only paid 2 rx's of 10 pills each, then I had to pay 55 for the next 10.

Pharmacies are too much for me. I am on disability so I have to stay on psych

meds for my only way to deal with insomnia. I have to take way too much

medication, I think anyway, just to touch the insomnia with psych meds alone.

Well, enough about that for now.

What are your symptoms now? You said the were getting worse? What is

happening with the problems you might have because of the abuse. I too

suffered

at the hand of an abuser. Write back, I care.

Janey

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Dear Jane,

I have had insomnia since I was six years old, my Nana died, she was more like a

Mother, my mother had her hands full with my sisters they were sickly, so I

shared my Grandmother, bedroom, her friends and she was my best friend and more

than a mother to me. I realize now that my mother suffered from depression.

She was the type that was angry. It got worse as we got older.

So I was naturally draw to that type of relationship. But I got therapy and it

help me a great deal. In 1987 my kids went to college we got into financial

difficulties, it was not only that, but things kept happening, my car was

robbed, we had car accidents and I had the hystercomy. I had over $10,000.00

worth of merchanzie stolen in my first year of business and of yeah the stock

market. We were wiped out financially. So I really got depressed, my Doctor put

me on Prozac and Ambien, it help for quite a while.

In the meantime I started feeling the beginings of Hepc, tried, joint pains etc.

I kept telling the Doctor how tried I was. In 1992, when the CDC made the

annoucement about HepC, I asked to be tested. I had ten transfusions in my

life, when surgeries were done. I found out I had HepC Virus, but at that time

there was nothing to be done, and it wasn't untill the Peg Interfron came out

did my Doctor urge me to see a Gastro. I got all the test done and I came back

Stage 1 Grade2, with a hemogenomia on the liver. Then because of the history of

depression he sent me to see his collegue in Philadelphia, and my husband met a

nurse who knew the head of Scherring Plough test and I went to see him. The two

experts said I wasn't a candidate.

My systoms are getting worse, I have had a headache since January, I take

medication for this. The skin rashes have become worse and leave red marks and

spider viens. Then I started getting nosebleeds, one lasted twelve hour.

Nausea, avoidence of meat, pain by my liver. I did have stress at that time. I

delivered a speech at a convection, and I was a neverous wreck. My blood

pressure is normal, but I know I anmenic, I chew ice constantly, when my

readings were this low when I was pregnant, I alway had to take Vitamin B shots.

Now they tell me there fine. When I go up north, I am getting a liver biospy

again and all the blood work. I figure when I get this information, I decide.

I don't know my gneome type.

Even after all the test.

Jane4155@... wrote: Hello Kathleen,

I know what you mean about the insomnia causing the problem. For as many

years as I can remember, I have had severe insomnia. No amount of lifestyle

changes did any good. I told the doctors I believed the insomnia had caused

much of the severe depression I had. Only this year, have doctors ever agreed

with me. I have told them this over 25 years. I have gone without sleep a

couple of weeks, for my longest time. It is every night if I don't have the

medication. I was given a rx for Ambiem by my primary doctor this year. It

was the first time I could remember my dreams in years. Even though it is ok

for long use, as well as others like Rozerem Halcion and Lunesta, my insurance

only paid 2 rx's of 10 pills each, then I had to pay 55 for the next 10.

Pharmacies are too much for me. I am on disability so I have to stay on psych

meds for my only way to deal with insomnia. I have to take way too much

medication, I think anyway, just to touch the insomnia with psych meds alone.

Well, enough about that for now.

What are your symptoms now? You said the were getting worse? What is

happening with the problems you might have because of the abuse. I too

suffered

at the hand of an abuser. Write back, I care.

Janey

[Guest guest]

So Kathleen - Are you getting another opinion as far as treatment

goes? Luckily you're Stage I (or were last time you were tested).

Maybe that's why they didn't decide to treat?

I am on peginterferon/riba and one of the side effects is

sleeplessness. I have a problem with that anyway, so there are a

couple nights a week I don't get much sleep. I'm tired from the

treatment anyway, so that's not helping. I'll get through it though -

I'm on week 26 with 22 weeks left to go.

Good luck to you. It sounds like you've been through alot!

Hello Kathleen,

> I know what you mean about the insomnia causing the problem. For

as many

> years as I can remember, I have had severe insomnia. No amount of

lifestyle

> changes did any good. I told the doctors I believed the insomnia

had caused

> much of the severe depression I had. Only this year, have doctors

ever agreed

> with me. I have told them this over 25 years. I have gone without

sleep a

> couple of weeks, for my longest time. It is every night if I

don't have the

> medication. I was given a rx for Ambiem by my primary doctor this

year. It

> was the first time I could remember my dreams in years. Even

though it is ok

> for long use, as well as others like Rozerem Halcion and Lunesta,

my insurance

> only paid 2 rx's of 10 pills each, then I had to pay 55 for the

next 10.

> Pharmacies are too much for me. I am on disability so I have to

stay on psych

> meds for my only way to deal with insomnia. I have to take way

too much

> medication, I think anyway, just to touch the insomnia with psych

meds alone.

> Well, enough about that for now.

> What are your symptoms now? You said the were getting worse?

What is

> happening with the problems you might have because of the abuse. I

too suffered

> at the hand of an abuser. Write back, I care.

> Janey

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