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Uveitis & tx Pegasus& Ribavirin

Although I visited  ophthalmologist for this question I was not persuaded that Pegasus would not interfere my Uveitis negatively. On the other hand, hepatologist told me that I may take corticosteroids if my Uveitis gets worse.  

I saw the post by Willy50  in this thread http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Hepatitis-C/HCV-Clinical-trial/show/1414377 .

So please does anybody knows something about this? I mean corticosteroids plus Pegasus ?
May Pegasus provoke my Uveitis which is autoimmune disease I've been suffering for 30 years and taking corticosteroids orally from time to time.  
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Nobody on this forum is a doctor or a clinician but I will give you my 2 cents worth on the issue.  My understanding on uveitis is minimal but I have heard that it is rare.  Since you already have issues with it and your specifically asking whether IFN/interferon/Pegasys would provoke your "uveitis" my unprofessional answer is yes.  Whatever health issues you have going into tx almost always errupt into a problem.  If I was you, I would only tx if you absolutely have to.  I placed a link to Pubmed so you can look up the condition with HCV and see what comes up.  good luck!!  


http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed

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