Relapsers after 6 months?

[Pinksmything]

I keep hearing that after 6 months UND/SVR we can consider ourselves cured so to speak.
has anyone relapsed after 6 months? Or heard of anyone?
It just seems so sad to me that we are seeing so many relapses.  I hear that its around 50% that are cured... so I shouldn't be so discouraged.  It's all so sad to me!  
My husband is making lots of plans for career changes after his treatment.  It's all a little scary as I know the odds/percentages.  
Janet

[mikesimon]

I am not really knowledgeable about non-liver transplantation. I know that steroids are thought to be bad for HCV liver transplants because of fear of increased viral replication. Beyond that limited setting I am unable to comment. Mike

[jmjm530]

MO: There are other studies to suggests that steroid use will cause a relapse of HCV.
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Other than a few isolated individual case histories, I'm unaware of any studies on this. Do you have the studies or is this something perhaps that you read here? I remember when treating reading all sorts of things re steroids, including using steroid nasal sprays might lower my chances of SVR, which, at least according to my doctors just isn' true. I'm certainly not advocating steroid use, but I think each case has to be looked at individually, as to the risks versus the rewards. But to do this, we really have to identify what the real risks are in a particular case, if any.

-- Jim

[lost39]

Pinksmything

hey there, now i sit here and wonder if anyone out there have relapsed after 12month post??????

hey Deb,
Sorry to here that u have relapsed after ur 6th.
What  about me now, i am sitting here and pondering on that very thought. They want to re test me on the 24th month, and that makes me wonder if the 12months post UND is really a confident time frame.

thanx for sharing this with us deb...
Good luck!

[MrsOckert]

There are other studies to suggests that steroid use will cause a relapse of HCV.

[Deb_c430]

Just one more point that I am not totally sure is accurate, but I had understood that is was not just those with HCV who reacted to steroids, that this was the case of all transplant patients~ That even healthy livers were damaged from them. Is this in correct info? Curious...
Thanks
Deb

[Deb_c430]

That is good news indeed!  I have not had a transplant, but I do know steroids while helpful in many ways they can also cause much damage. My reasons for prendisone and another I forget the name of them, were based on adrenal gland damage and ARDS.  
Continued best wishes  to you!
Deb