what test tells you the stage your in?
This is how it was exlained to me not long ago and it helped me :
Stage 1-Inflammation
Stage 2-Early Fibrosis-some scarring
Stage 3- Severe Fibrosis- more extensive scarring
Stage 4- Cirhossis
Hope this helps.
Keep us posted.
Good Luck
Stage is a measure of the amount of fibrosis scaring in your liver. There are 4 stages and each stage is a range of damage. Stage 4 is cirrhosis and there are variants of that: you can have compensated cirrhosis or decompensated cirrhosis.
Stage 2 is not as worrisome as stage 3, obviously, but stage 0 is normal and anything higher means the disease is scarring your liver and needs to be closely watched.
How long do you think you have the disease? It is a good idea to try and estimate how slowly your disease is progressing.
I am not a doctor; you should really discuss this with a hepatologist to get the entire picture.
basically there are 4 stages of HCV. 1 being minimal damage 4 being the most severe. Stage 2 is pretty decent.
Mouse
Genotype 1a, Stage 3, Grade 3
Finished 48 wks of tx on 4/13/07
waiting on resulst of SVR PCR taken 9/20/07