Nearly six weeks since I updated this. I saw my general practitioner a couple of weeks ago and my gastro last week. I asked the GP about anti-depressants. His take (which agrees with mine) is not to start throwing drugs absent a specific reason. I would not describe myself as depressed now. We'll deal with side-effects as they come.

My wife accompanied me to the gastro. He's pretty conservative as well. I got a bit of hard news there. It looks like Genotype 4 is more like Genotype 1. I'm not sure whether it means a 48-week treatment series, but in any case, it's not the easier-to-treat Type 2 or 3. In any case, the gastro doc is saying 50% of patients respond. My wife was working on the assumption that this Interferon round will knock the thing out, like a round of antibiotics for a sinus infection. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like that's how it works. Easy to get discouraged with that.

I start treatment after the holidays. I have the prescriptions. Got a few bureaucratic hoops to jump through with the insurance, but I'll be on treatment by this time next month.