Sorry to butt into "dointime's" post but the "quota" was full and I thought my question pertinent and of interest to many here.
As you're probably starting to notice, the majority of questions you're getting are about post treatment problems. This is not surprising since people have frequently been reporting these issues in our main forum. And while you have stated that most of these issues disappear within a year, that has not been the collective experience here, as I see it.
Don't expect you to go through all these threads -- and this is only the tip of the iceberg, but I included a partial list of what I'm talking about at the end of this post.
So my question is this, and I pose it with utmost respect -- both to your reputation as liver specialist and the opportunity you're giving us here at Med Help -- do you think it's possible that liver specialists as a whole are underestimating the extent of post treatment problems for a number of reasons?
Reasons including the fact that many of us seek help elsewhere (outside of our hepatologists) with these problems after SVR; and the fact that many of us may underplay these issues with our liver specialsts, because frankly what we often hear that we shouldn't be having these long-lasting problems from treatment, but we are. And lastly because human nature might dictate that someone focused on curing a disease may not focus acutely enough on some of the negative wash churned up by the treatment?
Again, want to thank you not just for your contributions to this forum but for your body of work both in research and treatment.
Following are a just a few of the threads from our main forum that deal with post treatment problems -- and again, many of these problems last well beyond a year post treatment.
-- Jim
PARTIAL LIST OF MED HELP THREADS ON POST TX SIDE EFFECTS
http://www.medhelp.org/posts/show/286686
http://www.medhelp.org/posts/show/286686
http://www.medhelp.org/forums/Hepatitis-Community/messages/965.html
http://www.medhelp.org/forums/Hepatitis/messages/41434.html
http://www.medhelp.org/forums/Hepatitis/messages/41439.html
http://www.medhelp.org/forums/Hepatitis/messages/41446.html
http://www.medhelp.org/forums/Hepatitis/messages/41492.html
http://www.medhelp.org/forums/Hepatitis/messages/41498.html
http://www.medhelp.org/forums/Hepatitis/messages/41506.html
http://www.medhelp.org/forums/Hepatitis/messages/41513.html
http://www.medhelp.org/forums/Hepatitis/messages/41515.html
http://www.medhelp.org/forums/Hepatitis/messages/45385.html
http://www.medhelp.org/forums/Hepatitis/messages/45437.html
http://www.medhelp.org/forums/Hepatitis/messages/45337.html
http://www.medhelp.org/forums/Hepatitis/messages/46376.html http://www.medhelp.org/forums/Hepatitis/messages/46380.html
http://www.medhelp.org/posts/show/303629