genotype1a

[ada619]

can i get rid of hepatitus c genotype 1a and how many symptoms will i get and what symptoms

[Dee1956]

I had to come back, you are very young, you may do very well on tx.
Do you have the results of your biopsy?

[Dee1956]

Hello you have received good answers from above. I just wanted to chime in and say that I finished tx 19 months ago. I am now cured of HCV
I was told I had a hard time due to my age 56 and cirrhosis.  Others on here were able to work.
I think the worse side effect that many get was the flu type symptoms and the diarrhea though that can be controlled.

There was a man on here who did construction, other people were able to work.
Good luck

[cheflady]

Hi and welcome to the forum and i agree with above you can be sucessfully treated my hubby was geno 1 and he was on incivek interferon and ribaverin he completed his tx of 24wk 6mth ago and was undetected fromwk 4 and stayed that way, we also found out on Tuesday that he as achieved the goal of SVR if you decide to treat now i think you will be given incivek also known as Teleprevir whiuch you take 3 times a day with 20 grams of fat which is really important you take it for the first 12wk only i think it will be the incivek because it seems to be the prefered choice of hep docs here in Britain we are from Derbyshire.If i was you educate yourself the best you can read some off the recent & older posts on here there is a wealth of knowlegable people on here and they will help and support you as much as they can & obviously that includes me. Best wishes to you and i wish you all the best. Kind regards Jules

[ceanothus]

The answer is almost, but not quite, a certain yes, you can get rid of it. Newer treatments are far more effective and work in most cases. For those cases that don't respond to current drugs it is just a matter of time, as many more new treatments are currently being tested. The treatments that are out on the general market right now for genotype 1a involve taking interferon shots once per week and ribavirin pills twice per day, plus an additional drug, one of two different protease inhibitors, three times daily. The total treatment time depends on the viral response to the meds, but will be either 24 weeks or 48 weeks. The protease inhibitor is only taken for part of that period, depending on which of the two drugs you are given. The side effects vary tremendously, but are generally more severe with increased age, with increased length of infection and with increased degree of existing liver damage. In your 30's, you are likely to get through treatment with far fewer side effects than most. Most of us didn't get this opportunity to treat until we were in our 50's or 60's and the disease had time to do a lot more damage.

Have you had a liver biopsy or a fibroscan done to evaluate the health of your liver? As long as your liver is still healthy (and it probably is unless maybe if you were infected as an infant), you might want to wait until next year to treat, as the next batch of drugs due to come out next year will be far easier to take and probably more effective too. A good source of lots of general info about the virus and treatment is at:

http://www.hcvadvocate.org

Sorry I can't make that a live link here, but you can copy and paste it into a browser. Good luck!