Hello hopey1,

The vast majority of patients – as in 95%+ are the same, or significantly better after treatment. Most patients over 50 say “I have not felt this good in 20 years”

Lucinda Porter and I did an analysis of the FDA FAERS database which covers 48,000+ side effect reports for these drugs. There is nothing unusual (or hidden).

I have about 3000 patients which is almost certainly the biggest independent sample of any doctor in the world and have seen nothing of great concern.

A significant problem with online forums is selection bias. If you look at this forum and search for posts before 2016 what you will see is hundreds of names of people you don’t see here now. They have been cured of their Hep C and moved on so their voices are lost.

Another significant problem is “post hoc ergo propter hoc” which is Latin for: “after this, therefore because of this”. It is a logical fallacy that states “Since event Y followed event X, event Y must have been caused by event X.” – the average age of patients being treated is 55 so there is an inevitability that the diseases of ageing are going to appear before/during/after treatment.

You may find this post of mine from last year useful as it goes into much more detail:

https://fixhepc.com/support-forum/media-news/1555-text-of-email-conversation-with-mrs-debbie-romesburg.html

Hello hopey

Welcome andCongrats on starting your treatment and your daughter too.
The Doctor certainly makes a good point about folks being cured and they move on with their lives hepc free with no lasting side effects, not to be heard from again

People that do possibly have some issues will often post on forums to see if there are others having the same so therefore it looks to someone new that everyone struggles with these issues.
Personally , I am doing my second treatment(1st one lasting 48 wks. and now just finishing 16 and have no adverse issues to really speak of).
Having said that the long term effects are somewhat unknown as these meds being relatively new there has been no “long term” yet.
However as we all know the side effects of not curing HCV can adversely affect one terribly

Good luck!

S

but don’t lose sight of other heath issues

This is really good advice beahaven. Treatment for Hep C provides zero protection from every other disease under the sun (except Hep C) so if you’ve stopped the pills and are SVR and there is something odd happening it should be checked out.

Dear Beahaven
I’m sporting very beautiful expensive chompers a bridge on one side post tx and yep a couple of root canals that were emergency and some other fix up stuff. After all the meds, peginf, riba, corticosteroids, Sof/led I had mouth thrush treated for ages and then bam! Abscesses times two! I paid for my smile and no falseys I am younger than you but I don’t think it matters about age. I’m very proud of my beautiful smile back and every time I smile it’s a reminder of how lucky I am! Yes it cost about $10,000 AUS but I have health insurance which covered half and I am just happy to be HCV free. I haven’t had any further teeth issues since this happened shortly after SVR 24.
I’m sure others have had teeth issues well actually I know they have!
Good luck paying for the dentists next overseas five star holiday haha we all know that feeling huh!
Sending goodvibes from Ariel

Im 2 years post tx, all good, didnt use harvoni, sof/dac 3 months, im an old fart, no issues apart from expected things at my age, getting rid of the virus has let the rest of my body reveal what i need to address is all, generics are gift, cheers, jim,