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Can hep C cause strange symptoms? 8 years 4 months ago #2405

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cid.oxfordjournals.org/content/40/6/834.full

Here is a link to something about iron & HCV.
but most people here are getting the cure, so don't be too concerned.
Soon everyone will hopefully be cleared of the virus.
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J the young dragon slayer is:
HepC 1a since birth
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VL 2000000
Started Twinvir/ 10-11-15-then Sof/led.
NO sides so far !
after one week VL : 37
after 4 wks VL : UND !
EOT 2/2/16 UND.!
4 wks. post tx results....pending....
7/3/16 VL result : 4 week post tx: SVR !
12 weeks SVR !
24 wks SVR yeeaa!!

Can hep C cause strange symptoms? 8 years 4 months ago #2416

There are different kinds of anemia:-

Iron deficiency anemia is treated by taking iron supplements.
Hemolytic anemia is the kind induced by ribavirin. Iron supplements should be avoided for this kind of anemia.

The subject has been a source of confusion for heppers, like forever.

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Can hep C cause strange symptoms? 8 years 4 months ago #2420

People moralising about injecting drug use? Well yes, that goes unsaid really.

But about alcohol. Nope. I've never felt that anyone who told me not to drink because of hep c or a dodgy liver was doing so for moral reasons. Rather I took their advice for what it was. Cold hard scientific fact.
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Started Indian Sof and Riba, BMS Dac (comp access) 28 August 2015
UND at 4 weeks
Finished treatment 19 November 2015
12 February 2016 UND SVR12

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Hi Chester,
I agree.
The liver struggles enough with what the hep is doing to it, no use adding petrol to the fire.
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J the young dragon slayer is:
HepC 1a since birth
Male aged 15
VL 2000000
Started Twinvir/ 10-11-15-then Sof/led.
NO sides so far !
after one week VL : 37
after 4 wks VL : UND !
EOT 2/2/16 UND.!
4 wks. post tx results....pending....
7/3/16 VL result : 4 week post tx: SVR !
12 weeks SVR !
24 wks SVR yeeaa!!
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miko3 wrote: There is one symptom I forgot to mention,and I note no-one else has.My sex drive over the last few
years plummeted from normal plus to zero minus.I note it is listed amongst the known symptoms in the book..
I wonder if others have experienced it,or if it just a topic that is taboo.


I have good news for u

I found that after taking the meds every morning erections seems to be stronger haha

Mebbe liver does affect sex performance

Can hep C cause strange symptoms? 8 years 4 months ago #2432

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Thanks for educating me on the iron iissue,on which I was a little ignorant.One of my personal reasons for taking Kale was that
my diet is largely vegetarian,and Kale does have a lot of other useful vitamins and minerals.

One of the very noticeable symptoms I have had since starting tx is intensely strange and vivid dreams.It is sometimes a welcome relief to wake up.I would have been able to give Freud and Jung enough to provide a whole extra book.
Gen 1b 40yrs,tx naive, f3/f4.VL too high to quantify.
Started tx 12Oct.sof and riba India via greg.Dac from Mesochem.
4wk result virus not detected,all liver functions in normal ranges.
Only SE intermittent insomnia.Feel great and grateful otherwise

Can hep C cause strange symptoms? 8 years 4 months ago #2434

miko3 wrote: CJ
Thanks for educating me on the iron iissue,on which I was a little ignorant.One of my personal reasons for taking Kale was that
my diet is largely vegetarian,and Kale does have a lot of other useful vitamins and minerals.

One of the very noticeable symptoms I have had since starting tx is intensely strange and vivid dreams.It is sometimes a welcome relief to wake up.I would have been able to give Freud and Jung enough to provide a whole extra book.


Yes lots of dreams here too!

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Hi Miko,

That's ok, the virus replicates its self using iron & also glucose, so that's why a low GI diet's good aswell.
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J the young dragon slayer is:
HepC 1a since birth
Male aged 15
VL 2000000
Started Twinvir/ 10-11-15-then Sof/led.
NO sides so far !
after one week VL : 37
after 4 wks VL : UND !
EOT 2/2/16 UND.!
4 wks. post tx results....pending....
7/3/16 VL result : 4 week post tx: SVR !
12 weeks SVR !
24 wks SVR yeeaa!!

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Vivid dreams indicate that meds affect the nervous system directly or indirectly
Male, Fibro F1. Geno 1b. ALT 67 before treatment Viral load 5 million. My huge viral load replicates in my nervous system as I suffer anxiety.
Started Twinvir 12/12/15.
Two weeks
ALT 17 at 2 weeks
Viral Load UND at 2 weeks
ALT 13.5 at 7 weeks EOT
ALT 10.5 at 15 weeks EOT
ALT 13 at 27 weeks EOT, VL UND, Cured

Can hep C cause strange symptoms? 8 years 4 months ago #2439

Enkel wrote: Vivid dreams indicate that meds affect the nervous system directly or indirectly


Is it becoz the virus are in the system too? Tats why we feel it?

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I think it is due to side effects of meds. It may need some time for the body to get used it
Male, Fibro F1. Geno 1b. ALT 67 before treatment Viral load 5 million. My huge viral load replicates in my nervous system as I suffer anxiety.
Started Twinvir 12/12/15.
Two weeks
ALT 17 at 2 weeks
Viral Load UND at 2 weeks
ALT 13.5 at 7 weeks EOT
ALT 10.5 at 15 weeks EOT
ALT 13 at 27 weeks EOT, VL UND, Cured

Can hep C cause strange symptoms? 8 years 4 months ago #2442

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Very close friend was on Sutent for metastatic kidney cancer and he had the most vividly disturbing, violent dreams - like horror-movie disturbing. He is now on another new type of chemo and no more crazy dreams. It wouldn't surprise me if other meds had an effect re dreaming.
GT1a since 1988, diagnosed 1990
F0, tx naive
VL 262,000 ALT 40 AST 26 GGT 13 Fibroscan 04/12/15 - 2.9
Started Mesochem sof/dac 12 weeks 01/01/2016
11/02/2016 - 6 weeks UNDETECTED
AST 26
ALT 26

Can hep C cause strange symptoms? 8 years 4 months ago #2443

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Harvoni is known to have insomia as a side effect. Vivid dreams are just a very mild form of insomia (i think)
Male, Fibro F1. Geno 1b. ALT 67 before treatment Viral load 5 million. My huge viral load replicates in my nervous system as I suffer anxiety.
Started Twinvir 12/12/15.
Two weeks
ALT 17 at 2 weeks
Viral Load UND at 2 weeks
ALT 13.5 at 7 weeks EOT
ALT 10.5 at 15 weeks EOT
ALT 13 at 27 weeks EOT, VL UND, Cured

Can hep C cause strange symptoms? 8 years 4 months ago #3295

A lot of people with hepC have anxiety. This is generally put down to having a psychological basis, ie. that they understandably worry about the consequences, the symptoms, the implications for their lives.

In the Traditional chinese Medicine system (TCM), anxiety is associated with a damp unwell liver. I am no expert in TCM but I want to suggest that the anxiety might also be organically rooted in the infected state of our livers.

If so then it's important because it may underlie the shy, reclusive, publicity-shy nature of most of us. Which means that soon there are going to be an awful lot of people with livers that have become healthy again, and who no longer feel anxious, shy, reclusive and publicity shy. They will have recovered their nerve, along with their livers. I am seeing this already here, as the virus leaves the bodies of those on tx.

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HCV affect directly and indirectly the nervous system. Anyway this is not a concern anymore. Cure is there.

Chronic infection with hepatitis C virus (HCV) is associated with a wide spectrum of extrahepatic manifestations, affecting different organ systems. Neurological complications occur in a large number of patients and range from peripheral neuropathy to cognitive impairment. Pathogenetic mechanisms responsible for nervous system dysfunction are mainly related to the upregulation of the host immune response with production of autoantibodies, immune complexes, and cryoglobulins. Alternative mechanisms include possible extrahepatic replication of HCV in neural tissues and the effects of circulating inflammatory cytokines and chemokines.

www.hindawi.com/journals/jir/2012/236148/
Male, Fibro F1. Geno 1b. ALT 67 before treatment Viral load 5 million. My huge viral load replicates in my nervous system as I suffer anxiety.
Started Twinvir 12/12/15.
Two weeks
ALT 17 at 2 weeks
Viral Load UND at 2 weeks
ALT 13.5 at 7 weeks EOT
ALT 10.5 at 15 weeks EOT
ALT 13 at 27 weeks EOT, VL UND, Cured
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