It is very likely that the pain you sense and your liver condition are unrelated. I would not jump to a conclusion if I were you.
Not sure what you mean about "inactive hep". How do you know this? Is it hep C, or another virus like hep A or B? They are totally different viruses and are similar only in the fact that they damage the liver. Have you been diagnosed by an md?
There are simple blood tests to determine if you have any of the hepatitis viruses, but they are specific, and they not done routinely unless there is a specific reason to suspect you are at risk. Are you?
Good blood work means what? Normal CBC and liver enzymes? Hep C does not necessarily manifest in liver enzyme tests (or symtoms, for that matter).
Hope this helps. I am sure your doctor visit will help also..
we al have felt pain around the liver, it is due to inflammation and fibrosis development and cannot be detected by tests, maybe fibroscan can see that
if you make hbvdna undetactable and ast/alt normal by tdf or etv you ll never feel that pain
that pain is not correlated with severity, cirrhosis end stage and dyeing and you may feel nothing, perfect liver and you may feel that pain....i guess it is just felt as the liver gets inflmmed
inactive hbv is only hbsag less than 500iu/ml, hbvdna less than 2000iu/ml and alt less than 30 men and 19 women.since cronic hbv has up and down ast/alt hbvdna just having hbvdna und and normal alt is not inactive hbv
Thank you for the response. So essentially, liver pain is not an emergency that needs to be addressed NOW just at my appointment in three weeks? It does not always indicate a severe problem?
there s no way to tell unless you check by a fibroscan and keep monitoring every 6 months in case of very high reading.
unforunately you can feel very very good and be advanced cirrhosis and not detected by Ultrasound unless nodules appears (not all cirrhosis cases have nodules from the beginning)
so it is probably nothing but just have a fibroscan to be 100% safe.be aslo aware many liver specialists are so ignoramt to keep using US and blood tests to see liver damage.......well when you close to end stage you may see something in US and blood tests but that s too late and all damage is done
Maybe I am behind the times on the fibroscan, but It has been my understanding that a tissue biopsy is the gold standard for staging liver disease (fibrosis.cihrosis). In any case, you can not really tell much from symptoms.
understanding that a tissue biopsy is the gold standard for staging liver disease (fibrosis.cihrosis).
yes 10 years ago when there was no fibroscan, biopsy is no gold standard at all because it just takes a small piece of liver and fibrosis is not the same in the tissues, you can have cirrohosis and pickup normal tissue in the biopsy.biopsy is not used anymore except US which is behind any country in the world for market reasons...if you are in US just give up for now because hbv status can t be monitored there