After Hep C Treatment

Don't give up 😉

Hi there. My story is very similar 12 years post Interferon and Ribavirin I still have many of the symptoms from during treatment in particular memory loss and foggyness continuos fatigue on and off mood swings spells of flu like symptoms with cluster head aches etc. Although im cured of hep c and grateful for that sometimes its hard to cope with daily living. All you can do is take the best care of yourself as possible. Good luck. UK

I seroconverted from a needle stick. My Hep C came back positive in late Oct. and the stick was mid July. My viral load? Is 50,300,000. I have looked into different therapies but there are only studies in regard to DAA’s for treatments for acute Hep C with promising results. Interferon would be a choice, but reviewing the side effects, I am not leaning that way. I think it would be better to start treatment early with the understanding that it may take longer to be “cured”. I do not like the odds of 15-25% people clear Hep C at or around 3-6 months. Damage to the liver is done.

My Hep C blood test from a needle stick injury at work came up positive that day. Turns out I had been carrying Hep C since 1979/1988 from NHS blood transfussion so I was chronic and already had a damaged liver . There seems to be much better treatments now and I have read some great speedy recoveries. Good luck

I was treated for a year with these drugs. I am mighty pissed off knowing the money that changed hands during this time. I feel so poorly that today I'll be composing my second letter to the negligent greedy doctors who treated me letting them know I have written my obituary and both their names are included in it in bold print because, in the end, it will have been them who killed me. My symptoms are so bad I don't know how I can go on.

Hello sueleerock, What treatment did you take? I was on harvoni 2017. My life is so--much worse now. I have few days of feeling somewhat normal and then I crash! I wish this hell was over. I feel for you. My family doesn't get it. I don't even understand this hell I'm in. I am 63 and feel like I'm in my 100's! So sad and very frustrating! I would have rather had a shorter energetic life than a life of total misery 98% of the time. God Bless you!

I am also 63. I was treated in 2008 with the highest dose of interferon and ribavarin. All of my siblings, sister and brother, had a different genoe type. My sis was treated with harvoni. I get so sick and tired of doctors assuming my siblings were drug addicts, neither of them were. I had unnecessary exploratory surgery in 1976, received blood transfusions.

Yeah, I can really relate to that. My two sons think I am a hypochroniac , not sure how to spell that.

My dear friend Susie refused to take the medicine, she died.

Hi I also was treated with Harvoni in 2015 it has been a living hell during and after trreatment after I had a blood transfusion in 1983 of 6 pts of blood a have a very low viral load and Normal liver functions no fibrosis,my other drs just followed me for years and this dr thought it was best to treat we’ll that was the worse thing I ever did,I have neuropathy, severe tinnutius 24/7 joint pain, blurry vision,I have had extensive blood work,mri,spinal tap you name it I have had the test done, I was so sick during treatment I should have stopped it myself dr said they will go away the side effects, i lost my hair, my brain,fell down stairs fractured my L1 I am a total mess I was a healthy energetic person and now I can barely move they are a lot of people that had side effects I do believe that Harvoni was pushed through to soon and I was dumb enough to take it,my life is just existing this is not living my hematologist believes the drug was very potent and they didn’t know enough about the side effects 😥