Aa
It is official
Genotype 1a VL 700k .. Doctor let me know today of all days.. I am very very upset
Still have an appt next week. I feel like I have been handed a death sentence as I am so young. How do you guys forgive yourself if you did something careless or reckless? I knew better and I still made a mistake. I do not know what to do with myself and wonder if I should even go on. I am so upset
Sorry I guess I just need to vent a little bit.. I feel like I just do not fit in around anyone all I have wanted to do for the past couple weeks is sleep..
Still have an appt next week. I feel like I have been handed a death sentence as I am so young. How do you guys forgive yourself if you did something careless or reckless? I knew better and I still made a mistake. I do not know what to do with myself and wonder if I should even go on. I am so upset
Sorry I guess I just need to vent a little bit.. I feel like I just do not fit in around anyone all I have wanted to do for the past couple weeks is sleep..
I left him a message with his secretary not him specifically, and he knew how upset I have been throughout this whole process. He didn't have office hours, he was in and gave me a call because he knew how upset I was Friday when we spoke.
i am not going to debate with you, at all, but i went for a full screening last november, including an hcv test, and my risks occured over a few day period at the end of april, early may. And the reason I have been insistent before I heard my full results is because of my risk factors, symptoms and testing pos for antibodies combined with being pessimistic/realistic overall.
If you don't want to talk to me that is fine, I am not trying to get your attention or anything else.
If you don't mind me asking, what are the chances of tx in the acute phase?
If you don't want to talk to me that is fine, I am not trying to get your attention or anything else.
If you don't mind me asking, what are the chances of tx in the acute phase?
"@ Trish, yes my family doctor called me earlier today when I had left him a message from yesterday"
Here's why I have a problem with all this.
All along you've insisted you have HCV. I've never seen anyone on this forum so insistent they have HCV and so unwilling to entertain any hope they might not have it as you. Most people are incredibly relieved to know they might not have it. When you have it impressed upon you that an antibody test is insufficient for a diagnosis, you say your doc called to confirm you had a PCR. Doesn't tell you anything else, viral load or that you even have viral load or what your genotype is, just that you have had a confirmation by PCR. So when you've been asked what your viral load is if you had a PCR, you've avoided answering period and and then when you keep being pressed about it as you keep claiming you are newly diagnosed with HCV in the many posts you've been making, you say you have a doc appt for Friday and you'll know more when you get to your doc's on Friday. Then the doctor's appointment gets rescheduled and you'll have to wait for the information on your viral load and genotype. It gets put to you that there's no point in going any further with questions being asked or answered until you have a viral load and a genotype to confirm you actually have a diagnosis of HCV and then your doc calls on a Saturday which seems a real surprise to you "he called me today of all days" and when you get questioned on the incredible rarity of a Canadian doctor calling a patient with test results on a Saturday after cancelling an appointment just the day before, you say it's because I left him a phone message. You never mentioned that when you said your appointment had been rescheduled or at any point at all until getting questioned on a Canadian doc making a phone call with test results on a Saturday. Canadian docs, at least in these parts, usually don't have office hours on a weekend, it's an after hours clinic or emerg and / or rotating on-call docs who decide if they need to see you up at emerg or if it's something that will wait for your own doc. And how would you leave him a message? My doc's office doesn't allow messages being left, they give the information for what to do if you feel you need medical attention after hours. Some specialists have answering machines after hours but they don't check them after hours, they pick up those messages when they're back in the office. An incredible coincidence of your own doc being on call or in on the Saturday and deciding to call you with test results?
I'm not at all quick to call troll on this forum, usually give the benefit of the doubt but in your case my doubts are far outweighing the benefit of those doubts. Maybe you're on the level and just a different kind of animal than usual. My spidey senses are tingling though, I'll tell ya that.
Anyway....if you are on the level and you do have HCV, then according to you a test for HCV came back negative just months ago. If you are truly positive now, you are in the acute phase and depending on what "months ago" is, you can still clear HCV on your own. After a certain amount of time, if you still test positive for virus, then you haven't cleared it on your own but you're still within the acute phase when treatment is at it's highest potential for success, so it's recommended to do treatment while still in the acute phase. That makes you fortunate to find out while you're still acute so that you can take your best possible shot at treatment working for you without having to do full therapy and add in a PI.
So many many months ago was your last negative HCV test and how long ago was your known risk activity?
Here's why I have a problem with all this.
All along you've insisted you have HCV. I've never seen anyone on this forum so insistent they have HCV and so unwilling to entertain any hope they might not have it as you. Most people are incredibly relieved to know they might not have it. When you have it impressed upon you that an antibody test is insufficient for a diagnosis, you say your doc called to confirm you had a PCR. Doesn't tell you anything else, viral load or that you even have viral load or what your genotype is, just that you have had a confirmation by PCR. So when you've been asked what your viral load is if you had a PCR, you've avoided answering period and and then when you keep being pressed about it as you keep claiming you are newly diagnosed with HCV in the many posts you've been making, you say you have a doc appt for Friday and you'll know more when you get to your doc's on Friday. Then the doctor's appointment gets rescheduled and you'll have to wait for the information on your viral load and genotype. It gets put to you that there's no point in going any further with questions being asked or answered until you have a viral load and a genotype to confirm you actually have a diagnosis of HCV and then your doc calls on a Saturday which seems a real surprise to you "he called me today of all days" and when you get questioned on the incredible rarity of a Canadian doctor calling a patient with test results on a Saturday after cancelling an appointment just the day before, you say it's because I left him a phone message. You never mentioned that when you said your appointment had been rescheduled or at any point at all until getting questioned on a Canadian doc making a phone call with test results on a Saturday. Canadian docs, at least in these parts, usually don't have office hours on a weekend, it's an after hours clinic or emerg and / or rotating on-call docs who decide if they need to see you up at emerg or if it's something that will wait for your own doc. And how would you leave him a message? My doc's office doesn't allow messages being left, they give the information for what to do if you feel you need medical attention after hours. Some specialists have answering machines after hours but they don't check them after hours, they pick up those messages when they're back in the office. An incredible coincidence of your own doc being on call or in on the Saturday and deciding to call you with test results?
I'm not at all quick to call troll on this forum, usually give the benefit of the doubt but in your case my doubts are far outweighing the benefit of those doubts. Maybe you're on the level and just a different kind of animal than usual. My spidey senses are tingling though, I'll tell ya that.
Anyway....if you are on the level and you do have HCV, then according to you a test for HCV came back negative just months ago. If you are truly positive now, you are in the acute phase and depending on what "months ago" is, you can still clear HCV on your own. After a certain amount of time, if you still test positive for virus, then you haven't cleared it on your own but you're still within the acute phase when treatment is at it's highest potential for success, so it's recommended to do treatment while still in the acute phase. That makes you fortunate to find out while you're still acute so that you can take your best possible shot at treatment working for you without having to do full therapy and add in a PI.
So many many months ago was your last negative HCV test and how long ago was your known risk activity?
I can understand your being angry with yourself -- I have gone through that phase myself. I did not get Hep C through a blood transfusion... I was just young, reckless, and a drug addict and didn't think (or even conceive) of the consequences of my actions. I was diagnosed 11 years ago, so I've definitely had time to adjust, but I'm still forgiving myself for my actions from over 30 years ago. Like what has been expressed above, it is not a death sentence -- you have options today.
I'm starting the triple threat tx in about 3 weeks -- and hopefully (fingers crossed) will be rid of this disease.
Good luck!
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I'm starting the triple threat tx in about 3 weeks -- and hopefully (fingers crossed) will be rid of this disease.
Good luck!
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@ Trish, yes my family doctor called me earlier today when I had left him a message from yesterday
I'm not sure I'm as skeptical as you are. When I was first told that my diagnosis was confirmed by PCR, I didn't know enough to ask what the genotype was or viral load. In fact, I knew nothing at all. The doctor didn't offer up that information either.
My last family doctor had office hours on Saturday mornings. There were several doctors who shared the office and they alternated Saturdays doing walk ins. God, I miss her!
My last family doctor had office hours on Saturday mornings. There were several doctors who shared the office and they alternated Saturdays doing walk ins. God, I miss her!
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