Author: tearj3rker
Posted: Sun Nov 27, 2011 9:30 pm
| Breezy_Ann wrote: |
| For whatever reason we as humans tend to be the loudest about the bad. I am the type that researches every med or procedure before I decide to do it and the stuff I come across winds up scaring the shit out of me. My Dr told me I have to be careful because of this and I am not getting the whole story, mainly the bad. |
I did exactly that before going on Interferon… and wow did it just stir me up. I was having sleepless nights before I even started treatment. There were sites specifically done by people preaching how it should be banned, how it’s inhumane, of how many people it kills.
Some guy who had a bad experience on Interferon has made it his life’s mission to scare people off it, and compiled all these stories. Check this out: Interferon.ws
I’ve had some of those side effects, incl depression, manic psychotic symptoms, psoriasis, addiction relapse (though I’ll take responsibility for that decision), even suicidal ideation at times. Yet the treatment has been the best thing I’ve done for myself for years. It’s somehow affirmed to me the lengths I’m prepared to go to stay alive and to recover from the damage of addiction. Those sites nearly made me refuse treatment.
One thing sites like that refuse to show is how many people have been cured. It’s all very one sided. And you’re right, it angers me how many people considering getting treatment get stirred to a frenzy unnecessarily, and need to be talked down rationally.
