I'm 2b and with my alt being 54 and my viral load being 8 million do you think its necessary fo me to do the treatment, and why do they call it tx this is new to me?

hello. there is a person here who is very generous with her time by helping people find asnswers to questions like that one. she would probably say that if you are not at a late time in the disease, and are generally healthy, that there is no reason to feel like it is something you should treat as an emergency. you probably have plenty of time to think it over and quite possibly have time to wait for a more effective treatment to come out.

abbreviations like tx for treatment is what doctors and nurses write to save time, i guess. dx for diagnosis, etc..

kind regards,

Thanks. Its just the doctor said oh 6 months and you'll be cured, but I know its going to change my life and I'm a very busy person, I'm 48 I have 2 teens I work full time. I've been seeing a doctor for about 5 years trying to figure out my fatique and body aches, headaches. I've had so many test and nothing than one day he said lets run one more test and yep hep c. I'm like what!!!!! How I got it I don't know. Never an IV user, but had lots of dental work done, and manicures....scary. What I'm saying if I can get rid of this and feel better why not do it....The one nurse told me the meds can be suicidal thats what really scares me......

Thanks. Its just the doctor said oh 6 months and you'll be cured, but I know its going to change my life and I'm a very busy person, I'm 48 I have 2 teens I work full time. I've been seeing a doctor for about 5 years trying to figure out my fatique and body aches, headaches. I've had so many test and nothing than one day he said lets run one more test and yep hep c. I'm like what!!!!! How I got it I don't know. Never an IV user, but had lots of dental work done, and manicures....scary. What I'm saying if I can get rid of this and feel better why not do it....The one nurse told me the meds can be suicidal thats what really scares me......


I have trouble with ANY doctor making a statement about cure. That's first. No treatment is 100% effective for what it is FDA approved to do, which is to lower viral load to a level below detectable levels in the bloodstream. Read that again. It is very specific.

New research is showing virus inm places OTHER than the bloodstream and has shown more than one genotype in the same person in different parts of the body.

Only in the USA do doctors make the claim of "cure."

If we had a cure, why is there such a competition to develope new and better treatments?

The most important piece of information necessary to make a decison about whether to treat is a biopsy report. If your doctor refuses to do a biopsy, get a second opinion from a specialist outside the same practice. Insist on one.

If you could get rid of hepatitis C without any adverse events and no risk to health or well being, you absolutely should treat. So far, we don't have a benign treatment with that kind of efficacy.

The more information you have to weigh the risks vs the benefits, the better.



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