starting treatment soon...got palmar erythema

[niceguy2007]

hi everyone..

i've decided to start interferon and ribavarin treatmetn as soon as possible.

i'm 25 yrs old, been infected with HCV genotype 3 for less than 4 years...

in this past month i've developed a singular blotch of palmar erethema under my little finger on my left hand..it throbs with a glass slide placed on it.

i've also developed what appear to be the early stages of terry nails, though that is debatable cuz my entire family thinks thats not so.  but i've emailed my pics to a doc.  i'm terrified!


but i thank God that i have no spider angiomata.

my latest liver ultrasound shows increased echogenicity, though it was perfect 2 months ago.  docdtor suspects fatty liver.

i've ingested about 1 gram of alcohol per day in homeopahic milk thistle , so maybe that has somethign to do  with it? cud i have deverloepd fatty liver , or worse, cirrhosis, in 2 months time?

riht now i feel really bad:(

[Myown]

No, never had a bx. I know what your saying and I go back and forth as to whether get one, but as I told the doctor, I don't want to be the 0.03 person who drops dead from something going wrong and then they say...."oh look, her liver was like that of a baby, perfect."lol

I don't know maybe...somebody on forum once posted that the doc hit the gallbladder and they were in extreme pain and had to get gallbladder taken out then and there. Rare, maybe, but rareity doesn't matter to the one screaming on screaming in pain.

So, i don't know. I am a 2, the doctor said 2 does have a good chance of svr...but who knows..because this cryoglobulins thing I may have does not look like fun.

Found Boston girl in archives and I believe she said she is having to stay on low dose interferon. Nightmare to me.

One day at a time. I'll see what doc says

[sfbaygirl]

When my doc mentioned "the risk" I didn't bat an eyelid about not having a biopsy. I had one 5 years ago and the horrible part was laying on my side for 4 hrs. Really painful, but nothing after that. Now I think, geez, I could get hit by a car walking across my deserted street with those kinds of odds, wish I would have had one. I WANT TO KNOW and now I can't get one. I am hoping to get a catscan that will tell if I have cirrhosis, although my stage was only stage 1 a few years ago, I don't feel as well now.

[Kalio1]

I starting to get better. I was very sick.

[Myown]

Yeah but, you probably aren't feeling good just due to sx? Stage 1 a few years ago..I'm sure your fine. This is all so much stress some times, most tmes I should say.

After tx, are you gettin bx?

[Myown]

i just had cat scan..will find out in a few weeks at next appoint. also had fibrosure blood test

[merlino]

Hi. Meds ordered - pharmacy cld - waiting for delivery date - both Peg & Riba coming together, tried for earlier appt w/Dr. no good - how are you? - read one of your posts about taking out your tx clothes. I went through attic and found my "divorce clothes" They are ready just in case I become the shrinking women. Mentally feel a little better and calmer.