Don`t Mess With Me - I`m On Ribavirin
When the Vikings used to invade the north of England for a bit of rape and pillage, they were reputed to take some kind of hallucinogenic beverage to psyche themselves up for the task.
Well, if only we could isolate that part of ribavirin that causes riba-rage we would have the perfect modern equivalent.
We could sell it to the goverment to give to our troops and within two years we would have the Empire back.
I have a little laboratory in my shed in the back garden and I am working on this project top priority.
Anyone wishing to get involved ( more funding is desperately needed) please get in touch.
Seriously though, riba-rage is awesome. Fortunately not many people get it on tx and even then not extreme.
I instinctively knew I would get it.
I read a book in the eighties on stress. I did their little questionnaire and discovered I was a type A personality.
It wasn`t long before I realised that this type A personality that they had discovered was merely a polite term for psychopath.
This is a condition I admit too, although not 100%.
The only 100% psychopath known to all of us is The Terminator.
Yes, and your boss is probably a very close second.
That`s why he IS the boss and you are not. Of course he could be she. Nowadays there are a lot of women psychopaths in the workplace. And they don`t all look like russian weight lifters either.
I got riba-rage the first day on tx.
I took the ribavirin at 8 a.m. My first dose was at 8p.m. the previous night.
After twenty minutes I felt like someone had just whacked me with a sledgehammer. I lay down till this was over and after half an hour got up feeling O.K.
Suddenly my brain was alive with loads of ideas of new projects I could begin. For an hour I planned out the next year and was excited at all the possibilities open to me.
All the while my mind is racing away my body is crying out for rest.
I saw in an instant what was happening and knew that this state of active mind in a fatigued body would lead to intense frustration and irritability.
Sure enough by the afternoon I was really hyper.
I went out for a walk feeling hostile.
Well, if only we could isolate that part of ribavirin that causes riba-rage we would have the perfect modern equivalent.
We could sell it to the goverment to give to our troops and within two years we would have the Empire back.
I have a little laboratory in my shed in the back garden and I am working on this project top priority.
Anyone wishing to get involved ( more funding is desperately needed) please get in touch.
Seriously though, riba-rage is awesome. Fortunately not many people get it on tx and even then not extreme.
I instinctively knew I would get it.
I read a book in the eighties on stress. I did their little questionnaire and discovered I was a type A personality.
It wasn`t long before I realised that this type A personality that they had discovered was merely a polite term for psychopath.
This is a condition I admit too, although not 100%.
The only 100% psychopath known to all of us is The Terminator.
Yes, and your boss is probably a very close second.
That`s why he IS the boss and you are not. Of course he could be she. Nowadays there are a lot of women psychopaths in the workplace. And they don`t all look like russian weight lifters either.
I got riba-rage the first day on tx.
I took the ribavirin at 8 a.m. My first dose was at 8p.m. the previous night.
After twenty minutes I felt like someone had just whacked me with a sledgehammer. I lay down till this was over and after half an hour got up feeling O.K.
Suddenly my brain was alive with loads of ideas of new projects I could begin. For an hour I planned out the next year and was excited at all the possibilities open to me.
All the while my mind is racing away my body is crying out for rest.
I saw in an instant what was happening and knew that this state of active mind in a fatigued body would lead to intense frustration and irritability.
Sure enough by the afternoon I was really hyper.
I went out for a walk feeling hostile.
posted by Paul | 9:02 PM
2 Comments:
Well, although also "type A" personality, the riba has had a very different effect on me, thus far! Feel as though I am walking through a thick fog - brain not working nearly as fast as usual - is driving me mad!
Re: itchy skin - try using Aveeno lotion (do they have Aveeno in Britain?). Is very moisturizing, containing oatmeal. An "anti-itch" formula containing calomine can also be purchased. Speak with pharmacist.
Am around the same stage of treatment as you (4th shot this Friday). Genotype 3a viral load 1.5 mill taking Pegetron (Schering Plough interferon redipen with ribavirin capsules). Hope it goes quickly for us both, with sustained viral response outcome!
Sue, Toronto
Thanks Ron for your gracious comments.
I want to link your site, along with others, to mine but have yet to find out how to do it.
Paul.
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Sue,
Thanks for the tip.Will seek it out. My nurse recommended ZIRTEK, an antihistamine, but as yet have had no more recurrence of itching so have not tried them.
Paul.
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