the question is will all those extra HCV caused problems be gone when clear of HCV ?
if so when? at 1 week ? 2 weeks ? 4 weeks ? 12 weeks after tx?
I suppose we’ll be the first to find out & that will probably depend on individual bodies ability to heal & repair the damage.

Als do you feel well ? now you’re free from the virus?

Good to hear some symptoms I didn’t even attribute to HCV may be related and improved after treatment. I also have had muscular and joint problems for years which I just thought were from getting old! I wouldn’t take Naproxen lately though, that stuff is evil.

Hi Sonix, I have had muscle wasting and joint pain too. Hips, lower back ad pelvic region in general.
Found Epsom Salts in bath only thing that really helps, oh and good quality Magnesium tab.

Recurring joint swelling, especially in the larger joints, (shoulders, spine, elbows, knees, hips) is one of my bigger symptoms … and almost totally gone now.

Naturally, My Dr could not find any connection re my joint pain and Hepatitis C – Even though this was what got me diagnosed – Sudden onset of very severe pain – Couldn’t walk, but no known injury – Total pelvic inflammation – Night pain when resting in bed at its worst. Another GP decided I had appendicitis on a previous episode. There needs to be more acknowledgement of extra Hepatic manifestations and symptoms.

Fascinating responses guys…it will be interesting to see if any of my pain (which I’ve attributed to chronic ie neurological pain) will lessem with treatment. Unfotunately i have some other pain to deal with on top of it, a possibly failed shoulder op and several cervical disc herniations I only found out about on Friday lol…which would explain a bit! I doubt that tx will have any impact there though.

After seeing the hindawi link from Doc I went searching and found this on the NATAP.org site showing improvements in neurological disorders, its very encouraging, Also my brother who did 48weeks of Intf/Riba(2005) to attain SVR was formally a computer programmer until he became too unwell. 12 months after SVR he started studying “python” a computer programming language and achieved a score in the top 1% internationally, I know n=1 but its still very encouraging.

http://www.natap.org/2013/HCV/081413_01.htm (HCV SVR Improved Neurocognitive Function After SVR)

My own experience is one of hell with emotions and brain fog, loss of memory, and extreme depression,, physically my autoimmune system went wild, all of a sudden I could not eat most of the foods I was used to, wheat, dairy, eggs, nuts, and chemicals in food made me quite ill. I had arthritis, excema, asthma, and seemed not to be able to digest much foods, had to go almost vegetarian to keep food in my gut. I also had extreme tinitus at around 15decibells at around 9600khz. The tinitus especially drove me nutso, so glad it is gone. Most of these issues have gone after 3 weeks of sof/dac, I have so much energy now I got a push bike and ride it a couple of times each weekend to move the blood about. I no longer come home from work and collapse, instead I’m getting into cooking and going for walks in the evening in a local park area. The guys at work suggest I have had a personality transplant,, if only they knew the truth.
jim