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pizzacake


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This is encouraging. I really appreciate the feedback. 



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Age: 62, Lived with Hep C since 1971 (Sharing infected needles)

Home: USA, Pacific NW

Genotype: 1A

Fibrosure stage:  F3-F4

Begin 3-month treatment June 24: Sofosbuvir, Ribavirin, and Interferon

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Isiscat2011


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Hi pizzacake:

The damage the hepc virus is causing will cease when the virus is eradicated.   Post SVR livers can regenerate even in many cirrhotics.  The odds of getting HCC (liver cancer) are also greatly reduced with SVR.  

You may or may not have cirrhosis.  If you have never had a biopsy or even a fibroscan a definitive diagnosis can't be made.  Fibrosure tests are unreliable for determining level of fibrosis.  

Whether you have cirrhosis is important to know, because if you do, you will need to continue with post treatment tests to screen for HCC and perhaps esophageal varices.  It is perplexing that all docs don't stress how important accurate liver assessments are for chronic hepc patients particularly when they have had the virus for decades.  



-- Edited by Isiscat2011 on Sunday 24th of August 2014 05:42:30 AM

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Hello, 

If you are wondering what impact treatment will have on your current level of cirrhosis, that can best be answered by the belief that it will begin to improve over time. What that time frame is is unknown. We do have members here that have seen improvement in a year's time. You will continue to require follow up care by your gastroenterologist or hepatologist on a schedule determined by the physician. Assuming you achieve SVR, you should continue to see your doctor as he/she recommends. Usually the individual with cirrhosis will continue to have routine ultrasound tests performed on average of every 6 months as a preventative HCC screening. There have been promising reports and articles that indicate fibrosis regression occurs following SVR. So you have every reason to be positive for the future!!

Tig



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pizzacake


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How will treatment will change my cirrhosis because of treatment? Does anyone have knowledge about this topic?

I'm at 9 weeks of a 12-wk treatment (Riba, Interferon, Sofosbuvir)

 

Hope you're all doing well. It's a nice summer evening here in the Pacific NW.



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Age: 62, Lived with Hep C since 1971 (Sharing infected needles)

Home: USA, Pacific NW

Genotype: 1A

Fibrosure stage:  F3-F4

Begin 3-month treatment June 24: Sofosbuvir, Ribavirin, and Interferon

Born in the Year of the Dragon. 

 
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