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<blockquote data-quote="saving grace" data-source="post: 436881" data-attributes="member: 1538"><p>thank you Susie, you are right, I was feeling sorry for myself and for him. I would just like to see some positive things happen to him for all the work he has been doing. He is going to start his treatment in October, he hates the heat and it usually makes him feel sick anyway so he will wait till the Fall. The ironic thing about his diagnosis is that when he started his program 4 years ago he tested negative. His doctor actually told him that it could have been from a tainted tatoo needle, he has a few tattoos that he got after his drug use. we will never know and it doesnt matter, it was lifestyle choices that got him here. </p><p>Janet, he has been on suboxone for 4 years, he has not used heroin or any other drug via a needle but he is smoking pot and he has used more of his script of suboxone than he should, he is basically doing very well, his docs feeling on the subs are if you were a diabetic and needed insulin you would take insulin for the rest of your life, there is not time limit on the subs, I do not agree. he has no interest in weaning off at this point, right now he is on the lowest dose possible. he takes 2mgs, he is so afraid of being sick that he wont come off, another reason I am afraid for him on the interferon, he is sooooo afraid of being sick.</p><p>Also his hepatologist says that if he continues with treatment for the 24 weeks he has a 70% chance of retesting with no evidence of disease. right now he has a healthy liver the disease has not advanced at all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="saving grace, post: 436881, member: 1538"] thank you Susie, you are right, I was feeling sorry for myself and for him. I would just like to see some positive things happen to him for all the work he has been doing. He is going to start his treatment in October, he hates the heat and it usually makes him feel sick anyway so he will wait till the Fall. The ironic thing about his diagnosis is that when he started his program 4 years ago he tested negative. His doctor actually told him that it could have been from a tainted tatoo needle, he has a few tattoos that he got after his drug use. we will never know and it doesnt matter, it was lifestyle choices that got him here. Janet, he has been on suboxone for 4 years, he has not used heroin or any other drug via a needle but he is smoking pot and he has used more of his script of suboxone than he should, he is basically doing very well, his docs feeling on the subs are if you were a diabetic and needed insulin you would take insulin for the rest of your life, there is not time limit on the subs, I do not agree. he has no interest in weaning off at this point, right now he is on the lowest dose possible. he takes 2mgs, he is so afraid of being sick that he wont come off, another reason I am afraid for him on the interferon, he is sooooo afraid of being sick. Also his hepatologist says that if he continues with treatment for the 24 weeks he has a 70% chance of retesting with no evidence of disease. right now he has a healthy liver the disease has not advanced at all. [/QUOTE]
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