Last night I began taking my Hepatitis C medicitation. It is aweful stuff, the meds alone make the disease not worth getting. You get this little sirenge which with a little tiny needle that you stick in your stomach (not the organ, just the part of your body). You then push the liquid medication into your fat/muscle and then take out the needle.
The medication left a fairly decent sized bruise on my stomach, maybe a little larger than a quarter, but it stung like nothing else all night. I barely got any sleep last night because of it. Then at like 3am I wake up freezing my ass off. I got up and turned the heat up and got a second, then third blanket… all the while my teeth are chattering. I know this was a side effect because my roommate woke up and said it was hot meanwhile I’m bundled under 3 blankets trying to get warm. That has gone down a bit now, but in general I still feel quite nousious.
I am also taking 3 pills two times a day to go with it, though I think the most those are doin to me is dry mouth and a head ache. The real side effects come from the injection, luckily I only have to take it once a week but I hope that I get more used to it when school starts because as is I would be skipping every Monday.