anybody have fever BEFORE starting treatment?

[niceguy2007]

hi.

i wanted to know if anybody experienced low grade fever as a hep C symptom, before they ever started treatment?

i had fever after strenuous exercise in june.

[painterlady13]

For a couple of years I ran a low grade fever in the 99 range I never connected it till I was DX and doc said that was prob a way of my body trying to fight off the virus.

[niceguy2007]

painterlady what was ur stage of liver fibrosis befroe treatment?

[painterlady13]

I wam a 1 not sure if a or b and a stage and grade 1.  My doc did say that that "could"  have been a symptom without ever knowing.   Not for sure though but haven'[t had any other underlying med probs so I don't know.

[friscosue13]

Yes.  My original dr kept blowing it off as "maybe you're coming down with something".  Ya think, and you want a copay for that piece of wisdom?  After fainting in the middle of the street and spending the day in the emergency room, I called him and his response was, "that shouldn't have happened."  P.S. I found a new doctor.  

I told him about the recurring low-grade fever, not enough to keep me home from work, but enough to make me feel "yucky" and lethargic all the time.  [Given my upbringing, I chalked it up to being "lazy"!]  That, along with only slightly elevated ALT/AST was enough for him.  He dx'd me as the proud owner of HCV.

I guess my first dr didn't think I fit the "profile" for HCV -- whatever that's supposed to mean.

[dyce]

Yes sir, I had the low grade fever before starting tx. Would come and go .