Hi Looking4Help,

Thank you for posting! What a story! I have never seen ALT/AST numbers like those before. Are you still alive to read this?

Nearly everyone on this site has chronique Hep-C, not acute Hep-C.

Correction… Many of the people on this site USED TO HAVE chronique Hep-C. Now more and more are being cured with generic DAAs (Sof+Dac or Sof+Led), with very few side effects (me included – and absolutely no sides).

Before the days of DAAs, the usual advice was “wait and see”. But this was mainly because the classic Interferon+ribavarin treatment was expensive, horrible for many, and had only a moderate success rate.

Maybe you will clear the virus naturally… But you will only know that in 6 to 9 months time. Why wait and suffer? My advice is find out what your genotype is, get a sympathetic Dr to write a prescription, and order your generic treatment right now. There is lots of advice on here on how to do it. Most people on this site report VL < 15 or even UND after around 4 weeks. You can do it all on-line for about $1000, more or less, from a reputable source (again, check out the various threads about this). Cheers,

You have a 25% chance of clearing virus yourself in the next 6 months and you are past the worst.

With medication you have a 95%+ chance and you will be virus free within about 4 weeks and you only need 8 weeks treatment.

It’s your choice. Waiting won’t kill you but you can get better sooner and chances are you WILL have to treat.

Since sustained hyperresponsiveness of dendritic cells is associated with spontaneous resolution of acute hepatitis C, then I’m going to say a good option would be pre/probiotics.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term=Sustained+Hyperresponsiveness+of+Dendritic+Cells+is+Associated+with+Spontaneous+Resolution+of+Acute+Hepatitis+C

Since HCV core protein is a pro-inflammatory TLR2 ligand; (this allows the immune system to recognise the virus and respond appropriately.) Chronic infection means that the virus has managed to subvert these responses. So supplying TLR2 ligands may be a way of switching back on the responses the virus has managed to subvert. So I’m going to say…spirulina. 4 out of 30 patients cleared the virus with spirulina in this trial

http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-230X/12/32

And since hep c is glucose dependent, a low carb diet can also help.

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Price, You clearly don’t have a clue of what you are talking about – no informed person would quote such specific details from isolated papers chosen out of context and use that information to give treatment advice.

Your behaviour is ignorant and deceptive. Fortunately in this case, your directions are essentially harmless (apart from the spurious low-carb recommendation), but I sincerely recommend staying away from playing the expert on medical topics of which you know less than nothing.

You could hurt someone one day.

Hi Price,

“And since hep c is glucose dependent, a low carb diet can also help”.

I am into 5 months of Sof/Dac: at EOT, is it worth steering clear of too much sugar in my (occasional) coffee?

Just saw a post on a relapse an starting again yesterday and want to give my my body the best chance of getting rid of any stragglers that are left post treatment.

J.

Thanks Price,

a timely reminder for me as over the now 23 weeks of treatment my new found energy found me eating things I would know to steer clear of – and hence a suspension in weight loss. Now back on the straight and narrow food wise.

Yours

J