the good the bad and the ugly-Ultra sound is useless

[merryBe]

mild vent, and chance to hear other warnings, horrors, or get aquainted tales.

even though my enymes were "slightly elevated for years, and I had  exaustion, fatigue, sweats, brain fog, and R. Quadrant pain my doc did not test for Hep C for years, and argued with me repeatedly that I was fine because "your ultra sound showed nothing.:

be  persistant.  after 7 years of fatigue fevers and pain, could I get an "I'm sorry". NOPE.
It took a different doctor with a BRAIN to see the most common blood disease.

my biopsy came back- grade 1 stage 3/4....spleen/liver both enflamed/enlarged-.Viral load 1.4 mil.

DON"T settle for ultra sound, or even Cat scan, or "well, lots of things can cause elevated enymes and a brush off".
get a biopsy and the right blood work AND the right doctor.

I'm 2 weeks into treatment and so all this has me really peeved right now.
Don't want it happening to anyone else.

does anyone else have a major warning for newbies.

[Myown]

Perserverence is all over the bible isn't it? What about Job? I like the way you say Amen. I think you are finding God.

[mikesimon]

It couldn't have been the 4.5 years of treatment I endured. If prayer was that powerful you'd think I might have cleared just a tad earlier. Amen and Amen! .Mike

[Tallahassee]

So interesting...  I remember seeing once in our local newspaper "Tallahassee Democrat" a story about one Family Doctor... the photo was taken in front of her office with framed message on it ... something about "the power of prayer"...  I could not believe my eyes!  If people desire to pray they go to a church, not to a Dr.!

Yes, we need to write a book ... it should be fascinating!!

[Myown]

Boy, did I set myself up for that one :)
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Yes ya sure did. LOL

[Myown]

Anyway, the next day this doctor came into my hospital room and asked me and my Father to join hands with him and he began to pray for me.
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And you are SVR also,,I had the non -praying techs and doctors and I am not SVR..soooooo there.

[mikesimon]

I can beat that. When I bled out the first time my absolute idiot of a doctor diagnosed me as having alcoholic cirrhosis. He didn't even look at my blood work.  All he heard from me was that I drank 4 beers a day. Anyway, the next day this doctor came into my hospital room and asked me and my Father to join hands with him and he began to pray for me. My Father was a doctor and the look he gave me spoke volumes and every word screamed out "we need another doctor now!" I got another one who did read the blood work and diagnosed me as having HCV. I was uninitiated into the world of malpractice before that time but I got educated quickly. So techs aren't the only ones we have to be careful about. Mike