Re: Jackie 12 hours apart/Don

December 1, 2008

Its your mind to do with as you please Ideally taking the pills 12

hours apart is probably best but unrealistic for me. My treatment

team has always given me choices and some are absolute agony to make.

Do what your team recommends Don and keep things simple or drive your

self insane trying to learn every little detail about Tx like me I

was told 2 times a day 8 hours apart was OK and has worked for me. I

am interested in what your Treatment team has to say.

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> Subject: RE: Re: Jackie 12 hours apart/Jackie

> Date: Sunday, November 30, 2008, 3:36 PM

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> I disagree that¢s it¢s that important to take the riba exactly 12

hours apart. For one thing, even at 48 weeks of treatment it would

be difficult to maintain such a strict schedule.

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> I was told, by the doctor, that I could take them all at once, but

would tolerate it better if I didn¢t. I was also told that I could

take the riba at 4:00 since I had trouble sleeping, but that was

difficult. I take mine at about 8:00 am and 6:00 pm (breakfast and

supper). All my doctors have known this.

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> I was also told by my hepatologist that it was ok to move my shot

forward (not back) one day a week.

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> One of the whole points to taking Riba in addition to Interferon is

to maintain a steady state of therapeutic dose; with daily riba,

there is little chance of creating troughs and peaks.

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> IMNSHO

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