Even if there’s visible blood on a fork or french kiss with bleeding gums?

Hi JohnSmith,

Are you from Tansylvania? Here’s what to watch for and where the real risks are…

Hi JohnSmith,

Congrats again.

While I can understand your concern about catching Hep C again the reality is that it’s very hard.

Patients with no history of IVDU, blood transfusions or tattoos generally got Hep C either from their doctor or dentist. A few decades ago blood-borne diseases were less well understood. Now they are and doctors, dentists and tattoos and blood transfusions are pretty safe.

You don’t need to take any particularly special precautions. Have your own razor and toothbrush for sure, but Hep C is next to impossible to catch from close contact ie sharing utensils. We know this because it’s also next to impossible to catch from sexual contact where bodily fluids are exchanged.

Hi christop88,

Congratulations on your cure.

Diabetes is 3 x more common in patients with Hep C and can impact your appetite so it would be worth getting tested for that.

Hello rightsaidfred,

Your name has always made me smile, largely because of the association with this:

As a gold label subscriber to the strand by strand grey ad falling out method, and a past user of the time-proven make it a #1 crew cut method….

Anyway, it’s been awesome to help people make that leap of faith and share in the results.

I don’t feel I’ve done anything special, other than do a standard doctor disease thing – here’s a patient – here’s a disease – here’s a treatment – connect the f***ing dots. I have been both sad and disappointed that so few of my colleagues have done the same, despite overwhelming evidence generics = cure…

To everyone who took that leap of faith with me all I can say is thanks – we did it together.

I miss Gaj, every day, and wish we’d gone harder earlier. 20-20 hindsight and the same GT3 issues. He failed the first round, we cleared it second time around but his SVR12 came up with a “shadow”. That f***ing shadow was not even an HCC. Is was another rare and aggressive form of Hep C related liver cancer.

Sadly he was not the first patient for whom treatment arrived too late. I wish I could have done more but we tried. The sad reality remains that for some patients, treatment will come too late.

It’s been said before, but is worth saying again. If you have Hep C get treated.

Gaj added more colour to his Avatar the first time he went UND and EOT and he added this…

I just wish it could have been this for him

The first one is # dance, the other is # magic

F**k I wish we could make the magic happen 100% of the time.

Hi stingray,

I did a search and turned up these 2 posts from you:

https://fixhepc.com/support-forum/questions-and-answers/89-how-do-i-know-this-is-legit.html

https://fixhepc.com/support-forum/new-to-forum/1813-i-was-a-skeptic-but.html

So it looks like you are a man/woman of very few words!

Happy hear you’ve remained negative but it probably time to relax. When you finished the tablets the medication took about a week to wash out of your body. At that point, any virus had a 100% treatment free environment to grow back in. The longest Hep C ever takes to “grow” is 6 months so you are so cured we don’t need the word so anymore. There is only one word required…

CURED.

If you are taking your medication in the morning then one of the antacid liquids would be ok. This will have worn off by morning.

Hello Oregondaisy,

After 8 weeks on the medication, it’s unlikely to be a reaction to them as drug allergies usually happen early on within days or two weeks.

That said it is possible that it’s a reaction to the medication.

https://www.aaaai.org/conditions-and-treatments/library/allergy-library/medications-and-drug-allergic-reactions

How we proceed depends on lots of things, but primarily this:

Is it getting better, worse, or staying the same?

If it’s unrelated then, presuming what caused it was a transient exposure, it should just go away.

If it’s related then it would be expected to flare up about 1-2 hours after you take a dose of medication.

It would be sensible to take some antihistamines, but of course, this will mask things.

Some allergies can be life-threatening if they cause problems with swelling of the tongue, in the throat, or with breathing.

Provided things are not too bad a pragmatic approach would be to do this:

1) Take some antihistamines at the maximum recommended dose today and tomorrow
2) Skip 1 days Hep C medication and see if things settle down
3) Depending on how far you are from medical care, how bad the hives are, perhaps park your car in a hospital car park near ER the next day, take the medications, and if nothing has happened 2 hours later go home and continue taking the medication.

The causal agent for allergies can be very hard to track down. I see hives in ER quite frequently and much of the time we don’t know what caused it. It is possible it’s the medication, so stopping them for 1 day (and presuming the hives settle) testing with re-exposure in a safe environment is a pragmatic way to answer the question.

The preference is to take the full 12 weeks as this will push the cure rate to 95%. After 8 weeks it should still be a 90% cure rate so it’s not the end of the world if the medications have to finish.

With a good separation between the two its unlikely to cause any issues then.