Hello,
Havent posted much on here so far, and not sure where to put this thread.
Ok, my partner died in February of 2016. We were together for 13 years. Around 2010 he began complaining of
joint pain.
Two years later, he was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. He was prescribed all kinds of medication, I can't remember all of them, anti-inflamatories, pills for cardiac arrhythmia. inhalers, because the R.A. was attacking his heart and lungs.
Wow, it's hard to write this.
He was also a heroin addict, used IV for some years.
He tested positive for hepatitis C, but by this time was very ill from R.A., and some bright spark of a doctor decided to
prescribe ribavarin to try to clear up the hep C. Poor fellow got all the side effects, and said he felt like he had the flu.
Stopped the ribavarin, still felt shitty, well, shittier, he was already very sick. One night around 3 am he is having trouble breathing, rushed to hospital, dies of pneumonia 4 days later.
Im not really looking for any specific answer here, but I'm wondering if the hep C medication hastened his, by this time, fairly inevitable death. I'm angry with the doctor who prescribed it, but I'm not going to make any complaints or anything, my man's gone. I don't want to scare anyone who's taking this medication either, I hope it works for you.
tl/dr boyfriend was already very ill from rheumatoid arthritis, prescribed ribavarin, made him worse, he died.
Havent posted much on here so far, and not sure where to put this thread.
Ok, my partner died in February of 2016. We were together for 13 years. Around 2010 he began complaining of
joint pain.
Two years later, he was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. He was prescribed all kinds of medication, I can't remember all of them, anti-inflamatories, pills for cardiac arrhythmia. inhalers, because the R.A. was attacking his heart and lungs.
Wow, it's hard to write this.
He was also a heroin addict, used IV for some years.
He tested positive for hepatitis C, but by this time was very ill from R.A., and some bright spark of a doctor decided to
prescribe ribavarin to try to clear up the hep C. Poor fellow got all the side effects, and said he felt like he had the flu.
Stopped the ribavarin, still felt shitty, well, shittier, he was already very sick. One night around 3 am he is having trouble breathing, rushed to hospital, dies of pneumonia 4 days later.
Im not really looking for any specific answer here, but I'm wondering if the hep C medication hastened his, by this time, fairly inevitable death. I'm angry with the doctor who prescribed it, but I'm not going to make any complaints or anything, my man's gone. I don't want to scare anyone who's taking this medication either, I hope it works for you.
tl/dr boyfriend was already very ill from rheumatoid arthritis, prescribed ribavarin, made him worse, he died.