How did you you got HCV 20 or 10 years ago.

[cierra2007]

Hello friends, my question to all is how do you find out how long you have been infected with HCV.
My doctor can't tell me, she just said that the liver has minimal damage and that maybe from a tattoo
some 21 years ago. I guess at this point it does not matter cuz I got it and need to treat it.
Thanks

[sfbaygirl]

OMG I can see me in one of those little scooters going out for a smoke. Really pathetic isn't it?  Why can't I stop? I did once for 15 years, just started again 5 years ago. Now that is really pathetic. It only took one.

So does the Chantrix work?  I have a script, but ins won't pay and it is $400 a month. NO thanks!  I will try and get a waiver, but the only way I KNOW I can stop is when I really make my mind up to do so. If you do it at that exact moment, you are golden!  I did that last time with gum, just stopped. Now I can't get that stop thing in my head. HR says STOP, my Dr. says STOP. Both say I am going to die of smoking rather than hep c.  Women have heart disease more so after 50 and die. Man o' man. I should put myself in a padded room and bounce around for a few days without them.  Of course I won't.   HELP!  

[ladybug52]

I keep forgetting that you smoke....with all of us smokers, maybe there's a conection somewhere???
I know a lady that has been taking chantex for three weeks...the wonder drug...she's had a stroke, peripheral vascular disease made her lose one leg, and the chantex makes her sick to her stomach.

Poor thing, at least she's able to climb on her electric scooter every few hours and make it outside for a smoke break! No kidding, she's not interested in much else but the smoking times for the facility....

I wish that I wanted to quit badly enough to do it... I do quit regularly, and that means I don't buy cigarettes for a few days, I just borrow them:)
Sad huh?
Hugs,
Bug

[sfbaygirl]

Now you have two lockers at that place?  What did you do, go buy more cigars?   You idiot, as Judge Judy would say! LOL  Yep, like someone you know, you are now protecting your cigars...that homemade one sounds pretty ugly.  I would put them in a third locker!  I have that stupid respitory stuff too. I have been coughing for weeks, still smoking. Maybe it will make me quit, I sure need to!  I sure wish having this cough would make me quit the darn things, but it doesn't.  Got to get to that place where you absolutely want to quit. Now cigars are another animal...never stop smoking them! lol

[ladybug52]

You know, the beauty of this whole back and forth is that eventually we lose sight of what we were talking about in the first place...

"How did you you got HCV 20 or 10 years ago."

Poorly worded, yet worded well enough to start a nice size friction in this small community of people infected with the hep c virus...

I don't even care how I  got this, or when...I would love to blame it on anything else but my involvement with drugs in '71...but I don't know how it matters anymore...I had it, I drank, I raised my kids and they didn't get it...all I can glean from this is that I was incredibly lucky.

Life is not fair. We all know that....I feel guilty that more deserving people than me are not svr...but I refuse to be drawn into a senseless discussion on when we got this or how we got this....it does not matter! We all respond differently to tx and all respond differently to this disease!

Case in point....some tx 72 weeks in order to clear, some, like me, treat 16 weeks with the same result... we are separated by our geno type, but even those of us with the same geno have different results...does the difference in response mean we have been infected for different lengths of time?

I doubt it can be simplified like that...we all feel passionate about our beliefs and this disease, it's wonderful to see so many great minds at work here on the forum....but we have to agree to disagree and move on.
It's good reading to see conflict, but works against us as a group brought together by the same common denominator.
I am guilty of wanting to be right more than is healthy...but in this case I can step back and look at the big picture....we're a support group, right????
Hugs sounds a little juvenile at this point, how about
Peace?
Bug

[l-horn]

I've had this upper respiratory infection thing going on the past few days or I'd join ya'. I had to put the bulk of my cigars in a locker at the cigar shop, two lockers actually. They were really getting to be a hassle to take care of and I didn't want to lose them like what happened to somebody I know......  ; )

I've got about 200 at home, and another 500 or so in the lockers. All of my cubans are in climate controlled storage. Nope, I learned my lesson from ya'.

BUT....but....I built this homemade humidor that works really well and it was cheap. Doesn't look real keen, but it works. I bought several bricks of that florist fauna,  a gallon of propylene glycol, and a 100 quart cooler. Inside of a plastic tub I soaked on of the bricks in 50/50 PG and distilled water. Then I placed a dry brick inside to absorb any excess moisture.  It always runs between 68% and 72% humidity and the best part is, I don't have to mess with it constantly.

Smoke 'em if you got 'em.

[sfbaygirl]

can you 'splain it to me?  You know what nevermind. I am so happy for you, I am gonna take out one of my cubanos and smoke it up in celebration for your SVR and my good fibroscan....forget all the bickering!  

[l-horn]

but only when I'm sober. No wait that's not right ....is it ......sober ? I can never remember. Anway...whatchall talkin' aboot here ? Oh yeah, I speak Canadian too, eh.  Let me see if I've got this straight. Somebody said something, then somebody else said something THEN somebody said something in Italian THEN there was a private message then somebody said something else.

Have I about got it ?

[Myown]

"Pathetic"

[sfbaygirl]

Hey, I love the Italian!  I just think it is kinda funny how we do things differently on tx sometimes....I think I thought in Spanish more often!  I certainly didn't think well in English!!!  Ahhhhh,  your Italian is great, just wish I could speak it. I love Italy so much......I would live there if I could speak Italian.  Luckily my Spanish gets by many times when I am there.  Just funny sweetie...keep speaking Italian, maybe I will learn more!  

Hugs,
Linda

[jdwithhcv]

You two are great, LOVE you both.  See you both soon on the forum, Mexican internet service permitting.  Otherwise I'm home Feb 25.

hugs and smooches
jd

[Deb_c430]

I am of Italian decent, lived there  and speak,  My parents speak as does all my family. Though I do not write it so well!  

Sorry if it bothered you all,  quite honestly I am done with this silllyness,  The point was to change the subject and laugh and say something positive.  If responding to someone who say something so kind to me after all that ****, is an offense, Then there is some thing way wrong! Nyg Thank you again,  Il voglio bene!  

I have sent Lady why a nice message,  If she does not choose to accept, that is ok. My Own I have not even seen since her last dramatic letter.  She does not exist to me.

Yes it was taken from the forum, I asked them too, the pissing contest as it has  now become here again,  the constant snide little remarks are not worth it to me. If you got something to say to me, then private message me,  

I have been on many boards, many chats, have seen some stuff, but nothing like this!  I have never such people not let some thing go and laugh. Especially people who have the disease, fears and so on.

To all my friends I thank you for your support and kindness,  Message me and I will send you my email.  





  

[susan400]

I am 98% sure that I got it 25 yrs ago, when I was living in the "High Times" lifestyle.  I know for certain from a blood test that I had that turned out non-A/non-B in 1985 (which we now know is Hep C).  My greatest risk factor time frame was in 1983.  I've never had any transfusions, tatoos, piercings (since ears in early childhood by a registered nurse), so that rules those out.  I can almost pin point a time when I believe that I was 'acute' Hep C; because of the symptoms that I was having at that time.  I was actually diagnosed with the Hep C test once it became available in 1994.  That's about all.

Susan

[sfbaygirl]

I guess we are both sensitive, huh? Lol  Nah, we have seen too many little conflicts to let it get to us. To bad they happen, but they do. Hope you are doing well!  Hey look at what tx does to some. Deb is speaking Italian?  Could this be a sx?  Maybe the fog has her remembering Italian instead of English! LOL

Ala;  Are you talking about that post about eating?  Was it taken off the forum?  Yep, we get some pretty weird questions and you have to wonder if some are fake.  I sent you a message BTW.

Linda

[alagirl]

because I get very annoyed when people pass thru and ask us questions about sexual deviant behavior and possible repercussions as if all heppers are experts in that area
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could be that booth I put up out front..

[ladywhy]

That was a mistake...your no girly-girl. It should not have been directed to you. I am so pleased for you. I gotta go read your thread...but cha ching sounds pretty positive!
Yvonne

[Deb_c430]

ahh don't cry!!!!  It is all sweet and soppy stuff!  About caring and hearts,  friendship!  Here, I will call you a beautiful a man with a  good heart!
tu sei bellino uomo, il bene cuore,

lol I may have slaughtered that!  

Deb

[l-horn]

Whacha talkin' bout ?

[mikesimon]

Now I'm crying too and I have to wonder why. Mike

[Deb_c430]

Perfecto!  

Toccare il mio cuore!

Kind of fun to talk in the language of our parents!    

grazi bella!

[nygirl7]

Now you made me cry!  

I hope this is close enough for you to understand it...

Avete uno spirito bello sorella mia!
Le ragazze italiane sono calde, si?

:)

[ladywhy]

This thread may have started with good intentions but obviously it swerved in another mean, angry direction. Boy, these drugs (or the long term after effects (maybe?) can make people write some weird posts. After reading a portion of this dispute...it feels like we are back at the elementary school level....(the little girls anyway). Let us try to act like grown ups and remember we should have a single purpose....to support one another and give info to help eradicate thiis disease. I hate to see someone with good intentions attacked by bullies......it's a cryin' shame. We don't have to agree with each other on everything...but...yikes!
y

This forum has lost so many good people because of this kind of behavior....people who need spport and kindness.

I could kick myself for wasting my own time and good humor on this garbage. If you wanna dispute something try to keep it civil. Isn't this disease and tx enough already...is it necessary to intentionally cause other people pain as well?

[ladywhy]

This thread may have started with good intentions but obviously it swerved in another mean, angry direction. Boy, these drugs or the long term after effects (maybe?) can make people write some weird posts. After reading a portion of this dispute...it feels like we are back at the elementary school level....(the little girls anyway). Let us try to act like grown ups and remember we should have a single purpose....to support one another and give info to help eradicate thiis disease. I hate to see someone with good intentions attacked by bullies......it's a cryin' shame.

y

[l-horn]

and all I coud do after that is chant 'change....change.....change'.  ...black jesus has arrived...lol. Read a blog today about the dems out in california saying the obama supporters were even freaking them out a little bit. It's like a cult. It is kinda freaky when you think about it. People voting for president like it's 7th grade student council.
Ahhh well. Thankfully I gave up loooooong ago. Now I just find it all highly amusing.

[Deb_c430]

Grazi mille, sorella mia! Tu sei bellina!  Your kind words touched my heart and giving spirit a  blessing to all.

Again thank you and Il voglio bene

Deb