HCV article and causes

[layla]

This kind of stuff just annoys the sh!t out of me. This is part of an article on the front page of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel newspaper today.

"A key example is the treatment of hepatitis C, which often is contracted through intravenous drug use, tattoos and sexual contact. Until several years ago, there were no effective medications for the liver disease.

About 2,500 Wisconsin inmates - or 14% - have hepatitis C, a rate four times as high as the state's general population. The illness can now be treated with pills and injections, which can cost as much as $14,000 for a 48-week treatment."

Are these the 3 leading causes? Are they so high a proportion of causes that it's insignificant to list other causes such as healthcare workers, contacted at birth, military innoculation lines, blood transfusions etc.?

I've was in miltary innoculation lines in the 70's, got blood i an operation in the 70's, (but also tried drugs as a teen) but I feel this type of article stereotypes the HCV infected persons. This was on the front page and is exactly why I don't share my HCV status except on rare occasions. Great for all of you that do and don't have a problem with this but for me it's a problem for numerous reason. Just wanted to vent and share this.

And I wonder how do they actually know that it's 14% higher rate than the rest of the population. Are they now testing for HCV?  Right! Vent Vent....

I also don't mean to make light of the prison populations problems with HCV so hope not to offend anyone there.
LL

[tdub]

I don't know whitch of the several ways to get this virus I got it from. I did a lot of coke several times in my life but it's been over 20 years sense I put a straw in my noise. I was in the Navy doing the 60's and those vac guns really did some damage to you. I know I moved and it cut me. I worked in a Hospital for 6 years during the 80's and I turned 21 at Woodstock in 1969 and played in a Rock and Roll band for several years during the 70's. Who knows. I never booted up any drugs.
I got it and now I have to figure out whats the best thinmg for me to do. Being self- employed and working with share toold all day long kind of scare me when it comes to the standard tx. I'm not sure what to do. I'll just keep praying and coming to forums like this for help.

[derail]

I'm just wondering it voyeurism is a real sx. of treatment and if one were to get caught would you be willing to testify same?
sticks and stones may break your bones but peeks and such excite you. hahahahahahaha

[cuteus]

well said, at this point it is more important to decide what to do with the virus, not to find out how it got there, it is kind of nice to know exactly when, but hard to pinpoint for many of us.
did you have any biopsies? have they assessed your level of liver damage?
It is a tough spot we find ourselves in, when we are first diagnosed. shock and confusion hardly describe our state.
I am a 1a, at 50wks of tx and trying for longer, around 50yrs and female, read as many studies as you can find on your genotype and ask as many questions as you have. There are many caring, knowledgeable individuals here that can direct you to proper sites to do research and answer your questions based on their acquired wisdom and experience.
best to you

[new-sojourn]

Well, I'm very vocal b/c I did get hep c from transfusions.  I'm very interested in that fact since I know exactly how and when and can look back and see all the medical mis-dx's, precisly b/c I never was kinky or shootin' or have tattoes-so I was never in a 'high risk' group and never properly tested or treated for the disease and the sx's of the disease-depression, memory loss, weith-water gain, immoble joints, extreme fatique, etc.  I suffered for years thinking I truely had lost my mind.  No one should have to go thru that crippling dispair and depression.  Just knowing there was a cause made life worth living.  At least I wasn't crazy anymore.

Precisely b/c it was not 'high risk' activity b/emergency c-sec's, I feel compelled to be vocal.  And I'm amazed of the people who have family who have hep c, mostly thru medical procedures.

Being vocal is educating, freeing and the only way hep c will be properly funded.

[Sam Hall]

Ive yet to see ant evidence of ap reson contracting through tattos, coures its' feasable but any resaesrh,i think not. How thw hell can you prove such stuff ,I got tattoos ive IVd ive blood brotherersd had treatmeant in third world countries and sex with any willing. Also plenty of cat scratches. And i got pecked on the **** by a swan once(git). First question ,clinicians icluded ,is where did you getit. You can seeit on thier lips "well it's self inflicted then" ....Yeah i worked real hard to get this. I don't want the sypathy of right wing **** heads but they sure seem to have some influence

oh and Cuteos what you doin' peepin' in folks windows? Is this research...can i join? Or dose arousal exculde me?

[Tony-z]

Here is a link to a very good sory about NON responders.


http://www.hepatitisneighborhood.com/content/in_the_news/archive_1857.aspx


               May God Bless all of use.


                        TonyZ