Hep C Discussion Forum

Hi Nino,

Welcome here.  Glad to meet another fellow Canuck gettng cured. This is a good place to land for questions and answers. Tig and Jimmy have covered your query well, so I will just share my experience.

I am a dif GT than you, dif treatment drugs than you, I had many decades of being un-diagnosed (a longstanding HCV), and increasingly not feeling very well with a myraid of excalating symptoms, which in retrospect, once I was finally diagnosed, I can now attribute many of them to the HCV I had been unknowingly been packing for so long.

One symptom (for decades, and even after diagnosis) I did NOT think was associated with HCV tho, it was an ever worsening RLQ posterior mid back pain (below ribs at waist), I had been told long ago in my younger years that I had a mild scoliosis, and xrays (when i was maybe 30?) did back this up, but it was a very mild scoliosis though. I went to chiro's, massage, exercise, the usual, etc. etc., and over the decades on occasion would wane a bit, but it would never leave nor really  improve, it only progressed, worsening especially this last decade, it was not too severe, sometimes more painful than at other times, just generally bothersome, an irksome/draining drag and very "wearing" for it ALWAYS to be there!, I couldn't get rid of it, it was just entrenched and I accepted it, worked with/through and around it. All this time I had been convinced it was simply musculo-skeletal in nature.

I was blown away/dumbfounded/and really really happily surprized to find (a few months after my cure) that that "pain"(which now, in retrospect, I am calling "liver pain") has gone!!  The prior pain has almost completely vanished!!!!  Over a couple week period, I noticed a distinct improvement, then a near-complete cessation of it, I waited a few more weeks ... and I couldn't believe it, something I had lived with for so long ... it was virtually gone. Knock on wood - it's still remaining to be gone!!!!  

My doc will not confirm this for me, so technically the jury is still out on this, but I am strongly leaning to this theory, that it was liver related pain. I was F4, like you, for a while. We believe my F score has drastically improved as well, time will tell, my next fibroscan will be this summer. BTW- I had a routine chest xray done fairly recently (it was just to rule out a respiratory infection), the report happened to (again) note my "mild" scoliosis, so, it is still there, perhaps not significantly worse, but now, no pain!!... hm - what would you think?

I am betting your "liver pain" will get better too!! I am glad you got yourslf to treatment. I hope you are not feeling too bad otherwise on treatment. Treatment is very worth it.  C.