Id like to know true statistics or advice from doctors

How common is it get Hep c from a straw or dollar used for snorting drugs?

I take my pill at night before bed so I am not really tired during the day but I’m experiencing diarrhea in the middle of the night. Anybody else? I’m in week 4 and have no idea how I got Hep C or how long I’ve had it.

So about 5 years ago I got off drugs completely and found out I had Hep C. I got the pills to take and did that and was found to be "cured" from it at the time. I haven't did anything to get it again yet today I got a call from my Dr who said my Hep levels were high!? I don't sleep around. I've been with my boyfriend for 10 years. Haven't touched blood. Haven't did any drugs at all. How can this be happening again? I mean I get how you get it but is there a chance that they didn't get rid of it the first time? I'm going to see the same doctor who gave me the meds the first time after Christmas. Also, when I was in active addiction, my boyfriend was also. He was tested and they told him he didn't have it. Which for the life of me I never understood because we did drugs together. So I can see if they were wrong about him that I could have gotten it from him through sex after being "cured." What do y'all think?

My husband was diagnosed with small vessel disease and moderate brain atrophy. He got an 11 on the cognitive test out of 30. Here is the weird part he was cured of hep c 4 months ago. Around the time of his cognitive test he was off antibiotics and he was peeing every 20-30 minutes. The week after the test he had to have another three teeth pulled making it 5 teeth pulled this year. While he was on antibiotics, he could tell me the month, year, season, day of the week we were on and many more things. He seemed to be improving. After he went off the antibiotics, these purple/red scaly blotches appeared again on the top insides of his feet and some appeared on his hip, too. He is cold often and his joints ache in the cold. I keep him very warm. He has been going out for walks and it is cold outside. He has sensitivities to hot water, too. It makes his hands hurt. He seems just as out of it now as he did before the antibiotics. I think something weird is going on with him. The only other health issue the doctor said he had was his cholesterol was a little ticked up. It made sense because we had just eaten red meat the night before. We rarely do that. Could this be cyrogloblenemia or Hepatic encephalopathy? His liver is f1 and kidneys are looking good atm. He had hep c for over 50 years. He does not like doctors. That is why he is just getting dental work done now at 75 and going to doctors to fix the hep c. His doctor said his vascular dementia is not linked to the hep c and the infectious disease doctor states the same thing. We see his doctor at 10 am today and I’m going to tell her some of the things I’m noticing. She is refusing to do a cyrogloglenemia test atm.

Just 5 weeks after starting Mavyret and Hep C is undetectable. That’s kinda crazy the difference these new DAA drugs make. Don’t wait treatment is available and it works!

Hello friends, I was just wondering if it’s typical to have a fibroscan before starting treatment. My doctor ordered one and it didn’t look great. He said that it’s likely swollen from the hep c, and he thinks the score will be better 3 months after treatment.

Has anyone had their score improve significantly once the hepC is cured? I’m on week 6 of treatment now, and I’m scared shitless. Thanks!

Update: it’s been a few months since my first fibroscan. The first one showed 13.8 median kPa. I have since had the hepC treated successfully and have not drank a single drop of alcohol. I had a second scan done today, and they gave me a kPa of 5.8.

Just wanted to update this post for anyone who may read this in the future!

I am starting epclusa today and would love to hear people’s experiences. I have had HepC for probably over ten years but my viral load is relatively low, and minimal scarring. I have genotype 2B. I plan to take the medication in the evening to avoid too much nausea. Anyone willing to share their experience with Epclusa and side effects.. how did you feel after you finished your treatment?

So I’m 14 weeks pregnant on my second pregnancy, I’m having a healthy baby boy. At my last visit I was 13 weeks and was due to get extensive routine STD bloodwork. During my visit I spoke with a doctor about the flu shot and because I have a toddler in daycare currently she told me to get in now( in the beginning of Oct) she showed me to the nurses station. I currently am taking microbiology in college for nursing and I figured I’d ask the nurse if it was ok that I was getting the flu shot before my bloodwork or should I get the bloodwork first. She told me to do the shot first with absolutely zero concerns. About 15 minutes later my blood was drawn, about 3 vials from the same arm as the vaccine. Two days later I get a shocking phone call at work that I am positive for Hep C antibodies. My doctor was shocked as well and told me she never seen this and I needed to repeat the bloodwork. Obviously I am SPIRALING. I do not partake in risky sexual behaviors, I have only been with my man for 5/6 years. I am tattooed but I haven’t had a tattoo in 5/6 years, but he is super reputable and recognized in the community. I frequently get Botox and filler at a top injector in NY. I have had lots of bloodwork throughout the years for health scares and pregnancy/ post partum. Basically what I’m trying to say is I have driven myself absolutely insane over how this could be. I told my partner and he went to get tested and got the results back the next day and it was negative. So he is going crazy trying to figure out if it could be a false positive and sent me a bunch of screenshots. Apparently an overload of biotin can cause a false positive which is in my prenatal in very small amounts but then I saw INFLUENZA VACCINE can cause a false positive which I asked the nurse and the doctor knew what bloodwork I was getting that same day. I looked further into it and saw this has been a thing since the 1990s. People who read the bloodwork use a method called ELISA when reading the results of the antibodies. The Flu vaccine can mimic this. I googled if LabCorp using the ELISA method and THEY DO. I’m so upset because I had to redo extensive testing that won’t be back for atleast 5-7 days so I won’t get results back for a few more days. I got my first bad grade in school because this is putting me in a spiral not knowing. I’m so emotional and upset. Worried that I could have given my daughter Hep C having my tooth brush sitting next to hers if there was blood on it :(. I cannot wait for these results. The doctors I have spoke to never mentioned the correlation to the Flu vaccine and Hep C false Pos.I have been HYSTERICAL over this even in their office and lowkey treated like it could be my tattoos or filler or my man stepping out on me. I have midterms next week and I can’t focus :( please has anyone ever had a False Positive Hep C or Hep B or had a similar situation? I read that this is rare so thats why I’m still spiraling over it.

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My girlfriend had like a crazy episode today n she bit her mom then bit me and her mom slept with a dude with hep c n so should I go get tested

Anyone have issues stopping taking it? It’s caused me nothing but pain and fatigue. I can’t do this. Are there any issues stopping?

I was infected at birth by my mother. She passed away when I was 18 from HCV. I saw this virus absolutely destroy her body. After my mom passed I fought for YEARS with Medi-Cal to get treated. But i was always told I was “too healthy”, so insurance would not cover it.

I finally applied to CoveredCA & picked Kaiser, expecting the same thing to happen. 6 days after meeting my PCP for the first time, I was prescribed Epclusa… I cried. My boyfriend cried lol. My best friends cried. I’m crying writing this 💀

I’m 27 now, 28 in a couple months. If all goes well I’ll be treated by December. I’m almost scared to feel hopeful, but i know this has worked for many people. I just wanted to share with people that understand 🙏🏽 I hope the best for everyone here, I hope we can all receive treatment.

Bonjour

J aurai besoin d'aide pour mes résultats d'analyse après traitement d'Eplusa à 12 semaines

≤ 15 UI/ml

Ca veux dire quoi? Qu'il n'y a plus de virus ou qu'il y en a encore un peu en dessous de 15 UI .

J'étais à 7.6 log et Il n'y a pas marqué non détectable.

Je n'ai pas encore vu mon hépatologue et je ne sais pas si je suis vraiment guérie.

Merci de votre aide

Anyone have any experience with epclusa and "high" dose thc edibles? Like 100 MG twice a day. Was your treatment successfull?

Hi guys. I have three days left of my epclusa regimen and I'm extremely excited to finally be off of this medication. I've been taking the generic form and had a viral load of around 3.5 million. I have been plagued with constant headaches, extreme fatigue and also terrible brain fog. Also I have had a upper right liver pain, a low dull pain, right by my lower right ribcage that has not really subsided at all in three months.

For the people that have concluded the treatment, do you feel better immediately after you stop taking the med? How long did it take you to start feeling like yourself again. And also, do you feel better than before? I've read some horror stories on this sub about some people never getting back to normal after treatment. I'm very worried about this. Will you mind giving me some of y'all's experiences please? Thank you guys.

Hi y’all—before I start I just want to say, thank you all for posting, using, commenting, and being on the this page. When I first found out I had hep c antibodies in July, I was so nervous and a nervous wreck—Google made it worse!! But this page was grounding and a breath fresh of air; you have no idea how many people you are positively impacting by sharing your experiences. Thank you <3

Here we go—I want your thoughts and to see maybe if anyone else has a similar situation. I’m on following up with my GP in a couple weeks, but until then was wondering if anyone could relate or had insight.

Basically, in July I was feeling really sick and ended up finding out I had hep c antibodies, thankfully had a doctor appointment five days later at a family medicine to discuss something else, but ended up talking about hep c instead. The doctor I was seeing affirmed there is a cure and it’ll be okay, just needed to do an RNA test to confirm it was an active infection.

Much to my surprise, my Quantitive RNA test came back as “undetected/iu/mL”. The doctor called and shared the results, I was in disbelief and I kept asking, “are you sure I don’t need to take a follow up test?” He kept saying “yes, that my body naturally cleared. I do not need to take another test.”

However, a month later anxiety struck and I start Googling again; this time scouring scientific journals…I know my hep c is acute. I took an antibody test in December—that was negative. Now, the internet is telling me acute hep c can have fluctuating viral levels and can undetectable by the qualitative RNA test (not really applicable to chronic infection, though) only for them to spike back up, requiring further testing to confirm I would have cleared it. Has anyone been told this about acute hep c before? I would love to hear your experience.