Hi Don Joe,
I would like to say a few things.
From what you said in your previous posts, you should get your blood work results in about a week or less. This will give you or your doc the best fact-based indication of what is causing the dark urine and yellow or clay colored stools. So my advice is just to hang in there and wait for the results. Everyone here has been through that. Mostly it will be good news (like hepatitis cleared), sometimes not so good (hepatitis still there). Really bad news is very rare.
Chronic hepatitis C is not a killer these days. It is easily treated. It is why we are all here.
If the bloodwork suggests a biological case, your doc will order more tests to confirm Hep-C or something else. This will mean more waiting.
If the bloodwork suggests a not Hep-C but physical cause, your doc will order an echography or an X-ray scan. He will look in order of most likely cause first. Most likely is a gall stone stuck in the bile duct. This is easily treated. If nothing is visible in the imagery he could order a biopsy.
And so it goes on. Right at the end of all of these possibilities is your worst fear. Even if your worst fear comes true, it might still be treatable.
Right now, I am sure your thoughts a racing everywhere. As soon as you get the first results in, you can just focus on what that means, and you forget about the rest.
Even if the waiting is driving you nuts, everyone here is telling you in a different way that you just gotta do it!
Diagnosed Jan 2015: GT3, A0+F0/F1. Fatigue + Brain-Fog.
Started Sof+Dac from fixHepC 10-Nov-2015. NO sides.
Pre-Tx: AST 82, ALT 133, Viral Load 1 900 000.
Week4: AST 47, ALT 58. VL < 15 (unquantifiable).
Week12 (EOT): AST 30, ALT 26, VL UND
Week16 (EOT+4): AST 32, ALT 28, GGT 24, VL UND
Week28 (EOT+16): AST 26, ALT 22, GGT 24, VL UND
Ever grateful to Dr James.
Relapsed somewhere after all that... Bummer!
Jan 2018: VL 63 000 (still GT3).
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