Is my HCV treatment working

[munish1972]

Hi i was diagnosed with HCV 6 months back with viral load of 250000,
i took some ayurvedic medicines, now my viral load is 85000.
liver elastography results are
fatty infiltration of liver with normal stiffness of the liver parenchyma noted on elastogrpahy with arfi value of .93 - 1.32 mt/sec. liver is normal in size 140 mm

AST and ALT elevated to 60 and 118 in two months.

is my treatment working, i really don't have any complications

[frijole]

munish
I have compassion for your situation.  I do know that there have been some people on this forum who have used Chinese herbs prior to treatment and it elevated their liver enzymes substantially and they had to get that under control before treating.  I think you must be very careful.

  It sounds like you are really stuck - you want to treat but are afraid you won't be able to work.  Many of us work through treatment but some of us can't. You don't know until you try.  I don't think you will be able to get the new PIs in India but I do hope the pegalyted interferon is available.  

Good luck on all this.  Just be careful and watch those enzymes.
frijole

[Lifenet62]

I'd go for milk thistle vit d3 alpha lipolic acid tummeric artichoke magnesium calcium b vitamins no iron small amts of vit a, again IF inflammed only. Best of luck to you.   Get the biopsy.

[munish1972]

No these medicines are complete herbal extract, and does not have lead, mercury and arsenic?

[Lifenet62]

Unless you live inthe United States or Canada, at this time the only treatment available to then will be the SOC OF interferon& riba which does have the 40% cure rate that you did refer to. Frijole is on point reg the mercury etc. I am certain this tx is costly too. There are many healthier alternatives IF you are inflamed only  

[munish1972]

Thanks for replying, i live in India where nothing is free,  i can support my treatment myself but only if i am able to work under treatment

[willbb]

is my treatment working,  
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From your post ...you are not on treatment. There is only one treatment protocol by study data approved to date that will eradicate HCV virus and that is Interferon/ribiviran and either Incivek or Victrelis for Geno type1.
These protocols are 70  -80 % successful.  and currently there are many trials going on experimenting with other drugs ..that speculatively could be on the market in a few years from now.

Viral loads fluctuate constantly and the amount has no bearing on liver damage being done..

Best to you...
Will