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That’s all I needed to know. Thanks!
Hazel
Can I send you a private message? I would like to know more about your amazing recovery!
Thanks!
The Dracula made me laugh. Thanks Dr. James!
Even if there’s visible blood on a fork or french kiss with bleeding gums?
Thanks doctor for everything. You helped me a lot and I’ll always be grateful.
Also, big thanks to Mar that always replied to my posts with kind words and incentive.
By the way, I’m not leaving the forum. I’m just thanking everybody. My intention is to give it back some of the support I’ve received here. You guys (and girls) are awesome!
Just did another test and undetectable at 6 months! YAY!
Thank you everyone for all your help and support. I couldn’t have done this without your encouraging words and support. Thank you!
The only thing that worries me is how to not get this ever again. Since I don’t know how I got it in the first place, I would like to know more about transmission routes. And as you can imagine, I have all sorts of crazy and weird hypothetical situations in my mind.
For instance, if someone have bleeding gums and some of that blood gets in a fork or spoon and this fork or spoon is shared with another person, can hepatitis C be transmitted by this route? To make matters worse, let’s say the blood is visible, just to simulate the worst situation possible. I couldn’t find an answer to this anywhere.
Can someone point me to a page or a book so I can learn more about it?
Thanks
20 January 2019 at 4:48 am in reply to: Proton Pump Inhibitors Linked to Advanced Liver Disease in Hep C #28933Thanks again Dr. James for this awesome reply and the links.
Reading your reply and the editorial, I’ve realized that I’ve missed something important. PPI may affect the course of the virus and create issues, but for that to happen, you’ve got to have the virus which is not my case anymore, thankfully.
The main reason I’ve brought this study, besides my anxiety, is to warn people about in treatment the side effects of PPI.
I know it’s silly of me, because I couldn’t even read the study properly, but I wasn’t take PPIs in my first consultation with my doctor and I had a really minor case of reflux. She encouraged me to use PPI. If I had this information, in my specific case, I would have opted to not use it.
Also, after reading your reply, I’ve realized that I can certainly use more context in my life. I tend to worry too much about the small things and don’t see the obvious ones.
My blood pressure and cholesterol are fine thankfully. The only issue is that during treatment my insulin got to a pre-diabetic level even with the fact that I was losing weight. I’ve read that the virus is closely tied to diabetes, I just hope that getting rid of the virus didn’t open some sort of metabolic pandora’s box. I know that this is weight related, but my glucose was always stable around 94 and my glycated hemoglobin was normal at 5.3 and suddenly got to 108 in a few months. That never happened before. That was 108 result was almost six months ago, so I’m worried that the next test might come back diabetic. If it goes from 94 to 108 in a couple months who knows what 6 months can do.
I’m going back to my doctor and I’m gonna ask her another glucose test. When I’ve get the results I’m gonna to make that appointment with you that we’ve discussed a couple posts ago. I didn’t schedule earlier because I still don’t have the results.
Thanks again for your kindness.
What I love about this forum is that’s the only place online where you can find kind words backed up by hard science.
Thank you so much you all for your support and for the kind words.
I love this song Dr. James. I love the musical too and it’s the best song from the musical in my humble opinion. That is a classic audition indeed.
And there’s absolute no relation between viral load and time of infection? Why some people have 800.000 and other like me had 3.5 million and others much more?
Wow! I’ve learned a lot with this topic. My question was useful after all!
I’ve threw away everything that could infect me. I’m still mad about the knife accident and had an allergic reaction for some reason 48 hours later, that’s usually a reaction I get when I’m gonna get sick with some virus, like when I got chicken pox when I was little or a flu, so I’m worried. How could I do this at the last pill day?
But at the same time, if the medicine is still effective for a week, perhaps I was protected from a possible infection by the medication?
If I’ve got reinfected, would treatment be the same or would the medication change?
I know he chances of reinfection in my case are almost none because of time frame, but since we’re discussing this subject, I think it would be a good time to ask a couple more questions to learn more about it, so I can make sure I won’t ever get this again.
I don’t know if most people here know how they’ve got infected but I don’t have the slightest clue. No drugs. No blood transfusion. Nothing. This is why I want to learn the most I can.
I had no idea that there was an exact topic on this exact same subject and I’ve searched before I posted. Sorry about that.
When my viral load became undetectable, I threw away everything that might have traces of blood on it like razors and toothbrushes but it didn’t occurred to me the knife I open boxes and cut myself from time to time that’s actually a retractable switchblade. What was I thinking? Now it’s gone as well.
So my thinking was correct. If the knife had blood before the 6 weeks when I was detectable the virus would be gone by now and after that that would be no virus to contaminate the blade. Phew…
I think more doctors should mention to their patients the necessity of throwing away personal use stuff, especially woman with all those nail clippers.
Looking foward to out appointment Doctor James. Just waiting for the test results.
Thanks again!
3 September 2018 at 4:55 am in reply to: Blood sugar and insulin resistance going up during treatment #28528That’s a great idea! I think it would be more appropriate and efficient. It makes more sense.
I’m on the end of treatment. Less than two weeks to go. Just let me finish it and make new exams and I’ll schedule an appointment with you so we can discuss what I can expect from now on.
Thank you for your patience and kindness. I know I’m not the easiest patient to deal with.
Thank you very much.
2 September 2018 at 9:56 am in reply to: Blood sugar and insulin resistance going up during treatment #28526My only concern is that my labs seem worse during treatment. As I’ve mentioned ALP doubled, my glucose went up and my INR is 1.16 which seems a disaster to those cirrhosis equations like Gucci and CDS.
Can this be caused by the meds? Also, I was taking motoprolol at the time.
I was hoping that everything would be better.
19 August 2018 at 10:15 am in reply to: Blood sugar and insulin resistance going up during treatment #28479When you say Metamorfin is a starting medication you mean it’s a diabetes or pre-diabetes medication?
How long does it take to get from pre-diabetes to diabetes? Ten months ago my blood sugar level was 94 and my Hb1Ac was 5.4
I’m already changing my lifestyle but I need some time to lose the weight.
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I’m positive that if these things don’t go away, it’ll at least improve it. I don’t see why it wouldn’t when the virus burden is removed from the system.
I’ll post my results after everything is over so other people can have a reference and hopefully help them as well.
Thanks again!
My thoughts exactly. I’m thinking about telling her. I didn’t tell anyone yet about this, especially my mom who tends to worry a lot, so I was thinking about curing it and tell her after that, but there’s no reason to not tell to this new person. Better if she leaves now.
Do you mind if I ask another question? I’m always in a hurry and my breakfast is too light, sometimes a few crackers just to take the medicine. My stomach is fine, but do you think this could get in the way of the medicine absorption?
The reason I’m asking this is that I don’t have any side effects but I’m not feeling any improvement on things that were supposed caused by the virus like my geographic tongue and lichenplanus pilaris.
By the way, I saw over 15 dermatologists, over the years and not single one of them asked for a hep c test even when they had the biopsy confirming it was lichen planus. I was the one who had to ask to be tested after reading there was an association between the disease the hep c and this is how I’ve discovered. It’s just insane.
I guess the worst thing it can happen to someone who’s anxious in general, particularly about his health, boderline hypochondriac, it’s to discover that the anxiety paid off. This is really bad because you tend to believe in your head that’s not seeing things properly because of the anxiety.
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