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life expectancy hepc
i was diagnosed with hep c when i was 20 im 25 now i also have gout in the feet im a social drinker on average what would be the life expectancy of a person in my position
I'm sorry you've been so drained. With all you've put into this it's easy to understand how you could get depressed. It's good you have your daughter and it does sound like she is a big support to you.
As far as the stages there is no way anyone, doctor or not, can predict how you will respond to liver damage. It could easily take 10 years to go from stage 2 to 3 or as little as 18 months. While it would be nice to have a progression date it just isn't possible for anyone to predict how one will respond to damage. I know people in their 60's and 70's living with Hepatitis C and they've had it since their 20's and 30's. I've known of a couple other people that died in their 40's.
As far as the stages there is no way anyone, doctor or not, can predict how you will respond to liver damage. It could easily take 10 years to go from stage 2 to 3 or as little as 18 months. While it would be nice to have a progression date it just isn't possible for anyone to predict how one will respond to damage. I know people in their 60's and 70's living with Hepatitis C and they've had it since their 20's and 30's. I've known of a couple other people that died in their 40's.
Thanks for your kind words... I am almost threw with the years meds, and it has been horrible. I went from a really nice looking woman to a pale, skeleton with little desire for anything, tho I still push myself. I haven't dated but once, for about a year, in the past 7 years or so...because I know that if I mention Hep C, which I hve to a few folks who I was hoping to start a relationship... the dust cloud they left by the end of my sentence pretty well made me feel like a worthless piece of diseased **** that doesn't deserve to have a Life. It could be these meds, but I get so lonely for someone to just go out & eat with, but I can't do it anymore, because the dust pile is inevitible, and that knocks me into a horrid state of mind, so I guess I have just accepted this Life, & pray everynight that "Tomorrow" will not come for me... I hate it this all, but I have no one to blame but myself. I've enjoyed your correspondance tremendously, I haven't felt comfortable talking about this to anyone but my 27 year old daughter, who is my biggest supporter.
Does anyone know if Stage 2 of the 4 stages of Liver Scor. is very far along, halfway... what??
Thank You. LipStick
Does anyone know if Stage 2 of the 4 stages of Liver Scor. is very far along, halfway... what??
Thank You. LipStick
I read the article you referenced and I think you may have gotten a couple things confused.
Someone jump in here if I'm wrong. Certainly don't want to be providing inaccurate info....
The article says "HCV-related cirrhosis (with its associated complications, such as liver cancer) is a major cause of death, although it develops slowly and occurs only in approximately one-third of HCV-infected patients. Alcohol can exacerbate HCV infection and the associated liver damage by causing oxidative stress and promoting fibrosis, thereby accelerating disease progression to cirrhosis. Furthermore, alcohol may exacerbate the side-effects associated with current antiviral treatment of HCV infection and impair ...."
Alcohol can exacerbate HCV - exacerbate means to make worse an already underlying condition. Alcohol DOES NOT CAUSE Hepatitius C (or A or B for that matter).
The next paragraph "Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver that is characterized by jaundice, liver enlargement, abdominal and gastric discomfort, abnormal liver function, and other symptoms. Although in many patients the diseased liver is able to regenerate its tissue and retain its function, severe hepatitis may progress to scarring of the liver tissue (i.e., fibrosis), cirrhosis, liver cancer (i.e., hepatocellular carcinoma), and chronic liver dysfunction. Hepatitis can have numerous causes, such as excessive alcohol consumption or infection by certain bacteria or viruses. One common cause of hepatitis is infection with one of several types of viruses (e.g., hepatitis A, B, or C viruses). With the development of ...."
The key phrase here is "Hepatitis can have numerous causes, such as excessive alchohol consumption..."
Don't get the word/condition hepatitis confused with the disease Hepatitis C. They are not the same thing....they only refer to the same body part; i.e. the liver. Hep researchers were not the most creative in naming new viruses, so we didn't get any of the cool names like Ebola or Shermack's disease or whatever.
Forgive me if I'm out of line here .... cause what I thought I was reading from your posts was that drinking alcohol causes Hep C and it doesn't. It does cause the condition hepatitis in your liver.
Someone jump in here if I'm wrong. Certainly don't want to be providing inaccurate info....
The article says "HCV-related cirrhosis (with its associated complications, such as liver cancer) is a major cause of death, although it develops slowly and occurs only in approximately one-third of HCV-infected patients. Alcohol can exacerbate HCV infection and the associated liver damage by causing oxidative stress and promoting fibrosis, thereby accelerating disease progression to cirrhosis. Furthermore, alcohol may exacerbate the side-effects associated with current antiviral treatment of HCV infection and impair ...."
Alcohol can exacerbate HCV - exacerbate means to make worse an already underlying condition. Alcohol DOES NOT CAUSE Hepatitius C (or A or B for that matter).
The next paragraph "Hepatitis is an inflammation of the liver that is characterized by jaundice, liver enlargement, abdominal and gastric discomfort, abnormal liver function, and other symptoms. Although in many patients the diseased liver is able to regenerate its tissue and retain its function, severe hepatitis may progress to scarring of the liver tissue (i.e., fibrosis), cirrhosis, liver cancer (i.e., hepatocellular carcinoma), and chronic liver dysfunction. Hepatitis can have numerous causes, such as excessive alcohol consumption or infection by certain bacteria or viruses. One common cause of hepatitis is infection with one of several types of viruses (e.g., hepatitis A, B, or C viruses). With the development of ...."
The key phrase here is "Hepatitis can have numerous causes, such as excessive alchohol consumption..."
Don't get the word/condition hepatitis confused with the disease Hepatitis C. They are not the same thing....they only refer to the same body part; i.e. the liver. Hep researchers were not the most creative in naming new viruses, so we didn't get any of the cool names like Ebola or Shermack's disease or whatever.
Forgive me if I'm out of line here .... cause what I thought I was reading from your posts was that drinking alcohol causes Hep C and it doesn't. It does cause the condition hepatitis in your liver.
Lipstick - You sound like you're doing the right thing - and you know --- it's all good. Chill and enjoy life.
Treatment is tough... it's hard and you feel old before your time - I'm 5 mnths post TX - and I'm just starting to feel better.
And you have a better than 1% chance. -- 3 years have passed you by... Great--- you took a mini vacation.
Now when you feel better get off yer duff and do some fun things! Find life all over again.
Who knows how long you'll live --- depends on your level of damage --- however... you could be walking down the road and Godzilla could step on you tonight. So it doesn't really matter.
Most people with HCV live normal lives until their liver starts to take damage. After Treatment - most are SVR (those of Geno 1a sometimes have a rougher road and a longer one...) and it takes about 6 months to a year to clear most side effects...
And those side effects are doosies... let me tell you - don't think this is how you're going to feel - cause you won't... I didn't.
I still feel aches and pains... But nothing like the OVERWHELMING EYEORE DROOPY CLOUDED THINKING HORRIBLE ACHES AND FATIGUE times like I had during TX.
And if I --- the biggest weenie ever roasted.... If I can do it --- then you -- someone who has recovered from drugs (what a fantastic achievement!!!! That's more amazing than I've ever done...I can't even say that I know I could do that... I've never done drugs --- but I've seen what strength it takes for people to clean themselves up!) If I can do it --- then you most certainly can.
Don't be sitting there worried - enjoy what you have --- and while you have it!
In fact --- pull your head out of those murky clouds --- and quit worrying --- if you're doing what you can to remain healthy - not drinking alcohol - and maybe starting some exercise --- you should be doing fine.
I can't promise a long life --- but most people who have cured or gone SVR live normal healthy lives... And even some people who have HCV but never cleared - and maintained little damage --- those folks live fairly normal.
So keep your head up!
Meki
Treatment is tough... it's hard and you feel old before your time - I'm 5 mnths post TX - and I'm just starting to feel better.
And you have a better than 1% chance. -- 3 years have passed you by... Great--- you took a mini vacation.
Now when you feel better get off yer duff and do some fun things! Find life all over again.
Who knows how long you'll live --- depends on your level of damage --- however... you could be walking down the road and Godzilla could step on you tonight. So it doesn't really matter.
Most people with HCV live normal lives until their liver starts to take damage. After Treatment - most are SVR (those of Geno 1a sometimes have a rougher road and a longer one...) and it takes about 6 months to a year to clear most side effects...
And those side effects are doosies... let me tell you - don't think this is how you're going to feel - cause you won't... I didn't.
I still feel aches and pains... But nothing like the OVERWHELMING EYEORE DROOPY CLOUDED THINKING HORRIBLE ACHES AND FATIGUE times like I had during TX.
And if I --- the biggest weenie ever roasted.... If I can do it --- then you -- someone who has recovered from drugs (what a fantastic achievement!!!! That's more amazing than I've ever done...I can't even say that I know I could do that... I've never done drugs --- but I've seen what strength it takes for people to clean themselves up!) If I can do it --- then you most certainly can.
Don't be sitting there worried - enjoy what you have --- and while you have it!
In fact --- pull your head out of those murky clouds --- and quit worrying --- if you're doing what you can to remain healthy - not drinking alcohol - and maybe starting some exercise --- you should be doing fine.
I can't promise a long life --- but most people who have cured or gone SVR live normal healthy lives... And even some people who have HCV but never cleared - and maintained little damage --- those folks live fairly normal.
So keep your head up!
Meki
Well, if you have gout, that's a problem that will only get worse whether you drink or have hep c.
That's one problem.
I got hep c in 1967 from a transfusions and can see how it affected my life and relationships.
Drinking and hep c and gout are 3 problems.
you can get rid of the hep c, quit drinking for years-7+=and still have gout.
You can clear hep c-I did in 5-2002 on interferon-3x wk shoots-and riba- and you can quit drinking...
or you can tackel one or two of the health problemsb/gout will stick w/you even if you are virus free and alcohol free....
b/if younliver hurts after drinking or sugar binging-all the same to the liver-that's whhen to quit and if your feet are hurting, that's a whole nother problem w/a whole nother diet!
That's one problem.
I got hep c in 1967 from a transfusions and can see how it affected my life and relationships.
Drinking and hep c and gout are 3 problems.
you can get rid of the hep c, quit drinking for years-7+=and still have gout.
You can clear hep c-I did in 5-2002 on interferon-3x wk shoots-and riba- and you can quit drinking...
or you can tackel one or two of the health problemsb/gout will stick w/you even if you are virus free and alcohol free....
b/if younliver hurts after drinking or sugar binging-all the same to the liver-that's whhen to quit and if your feet are hurting, that's a whole nother problem w/a whole nother diet!
I found these posts to be very interesting. Up until April when i was dx with Hep c I used to have a glass of red wine 4-5 times a week and because of it my blood tests show i have great Cholesterol, triglycerides and HDL cholesterol. Infact they are the best a person could have - but now im worried how much damage has it done to my liver? It will be interesting to find out next month when i get my bx. We shall see.
Stacy
Stacy
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