Possible Hepatitis? Please Help

[duh292]

OK this might be long.  5 months after I got my cartilage pierced I severely sick with fly like symptoms. Which I was told was from my over use of antibiotics once being levaquin who left alot of people in the hospital. I went to the doctor to get a check up and my blood work came back that my liver enzymes were elevated. but that also was from the antibiotics. I was sick for 4 months.

here i am 3 years later and I feel fine...absolutely healthy. I started looking up elevated liver enzymes and it lead me to here. I'm extremely panicky and I think I have hep from what i have read, it takes up to sick months to get symptoms and you can be sick up to six months? is that correct? is it possible for me to have been sick for that long and then it just go away and me feel fine? or is it really what the docs told me it was, and it was overuse of antibiotics?

ok, I know I'm going to get tested but its xmas and planned parent hood is closed untill monday =(

[saramo]

Congrats, now go get your vaccine shots for Hep A & B. Be safe.

[duh292]

Blood work came back negative for all Hepatitis =) Thanks for all the support

[duh292]

My doctor wont give me my results over the phone so I'm forced to wait untill wednesday for my appointment..yes it cant get any worse. I just want to thank you for always responding to my messages. Its really nice to have someone to talk to when going threw what I'm going threw. I still have pressure under my ribcage, but heck, I have had it for years now but have mistaken it for my actual ribs hurting not my liver?

oh I also read some where that If you had early hep c symptoms, like with in months of exposure. that it can mean you are one of the 20% that will clear the hep c. Is this true?

[stef2011]

if hepatitis causes liver cysts?
i guess not and cysts are not important, since antibiotics can damage liver much more than viruses i think that's  the reason of your problems, you will find out if all viruses are neg

[duh292]

I was wondering if hepatitis causes liver cysts? I found a small bumb on the inside of my right ribcage?

[duh292]

I got my blood work done today. dont know how long it will take for results but I'm keeping my fingers crossed. Thanks for all the support =)

[stef2011]

Does hep C also have an acute faze? and will it clear or not?
yes the same but while hbv is clered about 98% time hcv gets cronic on more than 85% (percentage varies accordng to hcv genotype)

hcv is harder and has fewer drugs available, the only good thing is it is easy to eradicate, it is a virus complitely different to hbv they have only liver in common

just avoid alcool, damage takes decades to happen and regresses when viruses don t repliacte

[duh292]

Thanks I really appreciate your help. I will be going to my doctor to run all the tests necessary. I really hope if I did have hep b I cleared it. After your post and reading all about acute hep b, it sounds just like what I went threw. Does hep C also have an acute faze? and will it clear or not?

oh also if you had acute hep b will the liver damage that occurred during that 3-6 months get better or should you be careful from now on and will the liver damage stay there for ever?
Thanks

[stef2011]

hep c doesnt have symptoms
it is a stupid behaviour of doctors.all hepatitis have no synthoms and most of infected persons are unware of it and just keep sreading it and dying slowly
there are only very few with general synthoms which cannot be hepatitis but many diseases, and they are only those with acute hbv who clear, all cronic carriers live perfectly until they reach very advanced cirrhosis

with hepatitis you must make only tests, there is no way to know anything without blood tests and fibroscan/ultrasound when cronic from years

acute hbv makes no fibrosis to the liver or very little, only cronic hbv can damage liver by years of active replication

all tests here, all are needed not just few of them
http://www.medhelp.org/health_pages/Hepatitis/HepB-Introduction--Welcome-Page/show/34?cid=153

hepatitis and liver damage are made by unhealthy food and fats or being over wheight as much as viruses, so check also these

[duh292]

Are you sure that hep c doesnt have symptoms. I have heard that symptoms usually a appear with in 6 months of being infected and my symptoms occured 4 months after I got my ear pierced and lasted 6 months long. Please explain this to me, im kinda in over my head right now

[duh292]

Are you sure that hep c doesnt have symptoms. I have heard that symptoms usually a appear with in 6 months of being infected and my symptoms occured 4 months after I got my ear pierced and lasted 6 months long. Please explain this to me, im kinda in over my head right now.

[stef2011]

hepatitis has no synthoms, those who develop some generic synthoms are so few that it is more resonable to thin hepatitis by hbv and hcv has none

it was overuse of antibiotics?
antibiotics are the first sourse of death for liver failure not hbv, if you use a lot of antibiotics and aspirin your liver might be destroyed by these, you can check by fibroscan how damaged your liver is, the viruses makes much less damage

the only way to know if you hae viruses is blood tests and if you have none do make hav and hbv vaccine immediately since after those antibiotics yourliver might not tollerate viral infections

also fats, meat, low exercise and food not fresh may lead to a disease called fatty liver which is as serious as hbv and hcv infection