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ALT/AST normal questions
I have decided to go ahead with treatment in January and my tx is covered to 80%. I applied for coverage for the remaining 20% to our federal drug plan here and their response is that because my ALT/AST is normal, no treatment is required.
Subsequent reading tells me that some people have normal ALT/AST and yet can have progressed stages of liver damage and high viral load....and that the reverse has also been found, that you can have elevated levels of ALT/AST and yet have none to minimal liver damage.
If you have been / are either of these scenarios, can you weigh in please? And also, can you weigh in on whether what I've stated is true or false?
First of all, I want to be sure I have my facts right. Second of all, I'll likely proceed with tx regardless but it's going to be tight. Third of all, my GI is really, really upset with their position as it's from their "medical expert". He's written them a really nasty note as he has to include his treatment recommendation along with my application and their expertise trumps his apparently.
What I'm MOSTLY concerned about ... is that if they're only basing it on ALT/AST levels and this is their expert, there are others who will also be applying who don't have any coverage at all or worse coverage than me who will be turned away for this. I don't want to let this slide and I want to make sure of my facts before I decide what I want to do about this, both for myself and others with HCV as a whole.
Any info you can share that clarifies the picture here will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Trish
Subsequent reading tells me that some people have normal ALT/AST and yet can have progressed stages of liver damage and high viral load....and that the reverse has also been found, that you can have elevated levels of ALT/AST and yet have none to minimal liver damage.
If you have been / are either of these scenarios, can you weigh in please? And also, can you weigh in on whether what I've stated is true or false?
First of all, I want to be sure I have my facts right. Second of all, I'll likely proceed with tx regardless but it's going to be tight. Third of all, my GI is really, really upset with their position as it's from their "medical expert". He's written them a really nasty note as he has to include his treatment recommendation along with my application and their expertise trumps his apparently.
What I'm MOSTLY concerned about ... is that if they're only basing it on ALT/AST levels and this is their expert, there are others who will also be applying who don't have any coverage at all or worse coverage than me who will be turned away for this. I don't want to let this slide and I want to make sure of my facts before I decide what I want to do about this, both for myself and others with HCV as a whole.
Any info you can share that clarifies the picture here will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
Trish
Please forgive me.
:)
Ahhh, liberal humor....
Two priests were in the bathroom at the urinal. One looks over and says "what is that on the end of your thingy?"
The other priest says: "It's a nicoderm patch."
First priest says: "Does it work?"
Second priest says: "Sure does. I'm down to 2 butts a day."
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Cept that if you took stats on the way people lean in the vast majority of colleges and universities (students and profs), the preponderance is certainly more "liberal"....if you went to a tractor pull, more right wing.....(sorry, couldn't help that last cheap shot, he he he, I'm an idiot sometimes)
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yes, well i suppose your liberal professors might make mincemeat ot the tractor pull guys in an intellectual debate. The libs would stump these folk with there superior attitude and verbiage. (i.e. baffle em with bullsh$%) But, If I had to choose which group I would prefer to look after my kids in my absence, well it is a no brainer..... I agree that our institutions of higher learning are predominantly staffed with aging hippies trying to fill young naive minds with there their misguided perception of utopia. These professors are nothing more than liberal preachers sermonizing in the church of secular progression. Thankfully most come off looking baffoonish. Ya know, America's leading universities were started by Christians as places to teach the Bible, train students for the ministry, and nurture the values needed to strengthen America. Now, these colleges are nothing more than temples spouting anti Christian, and anti American rhetoric. The leftist agenda that is running rampant in these schools got its roots in the 1960s. The radicals of the Sixties Revolution are the same idiots at the head of these institutions, and are in charge of shaping the minds of our kids.
And it is not just anti-Americanism that has escalated on these campuses. Just look at this list of courses taught at some of America's top universities:
At Columbia, Sorcery and Magic
At Dartmouth, Queer Theory, Queer Texts
At Cornell, Gay Fiction
At Swarthmore, Lesbian Novels Since World War II
At the University of Wisconsin, Goddesses and Feminine Powers
And, at the University of Pennsylvania, Feminist Critique of Christianity,
to name just a few.
Yah, I think I'll let my kids hang out at the tractor pull.....
Well how you like that, I let you get my long johns in a knot....
Peace my liberal friend.
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yes, well i suppose your liberal professors might make mincemeat ot the tractor pull guys in an intellectual debate. The libs would stump these folk with there superior attitude and verbiage. (i.e. baffle em with bullsh$%) But, If I had to choose which group I would prefer to look after my kids in my absence, well it is a no brainer..... I agree that our institutions of higher learning are predominantly staffed with aging hippies trying to fill young naive minds with there their misguided perception of utopia. These professors are nothing more than liberal preachers sermonizing in the church of secular progression. Thankfully most come off looking baffoonish. Ya know, America's leading universities were started by Christians as places to teach the Bible, train students for the ministry, and nurture the values needed to strengthen America. Now, these colleges are nothing more than temples spouting anti Christian, and anti American rhetoric. The leftist agenda that is running rampant in these schools got its roots in the 1960s. The radicals of the Sixties Revolution are the same idiots at the head of these institutions, and are in charge of shaping the minds of our kids.
And it is not just anti-Americanism that has escalated on these campuses. Just look at this list of courses taught at some of America's top universities:
At Columbia, Sorcery and Magic
At Dartmouth, Queer Theory, Queer Texts
At Cornell, Gay Fiction
At Swarthmore, Lesbian Novels Since World War II
At the University of Wisconsin, Goddesses and Feminine Powers
And, at the University of Pennsylvania, Feminist Critique of Christianity,
to name just a few.
Yah, I think I'll let my kids hang out at the tractor pull.....
Well how you like that, I let you get my long johns in a knot....
Peace my liberal friend.
Gauf: just speaking generally, you sound like a very thoughtful and kind person, I'm glad you post on here, just sorry for the reason...
LL: read your story on the other thread, too funny...we should really trade animal stories, and I don't mean the current political debates, on both sides! lol.....
LL: read your story on the other thread, too funny...we should really trade animal stories, and I don't mean the current political debates, on both sides! lol.....
might have something to do with how youre raised...and what channels on TV you watch, or whether you read newspapers, read the articles all the way though instead of listening to just sound bites and propaganda on both sides, for your information on issues that are immensely complicated, and need a more thorough analysis
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Just to clarify, I don't fall in the propaganda trap ever. I am an avid reader and am a student of history, theology, and politics. I could hold my own in any discussion, but as I pointed out above, to what end?
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Just to clarify, I don't fall in the propaganda trap ever. I am an avid reader and am a student of history, theology, and politics. I could hold my own in any discussion, but as I pointed out above, to what end?
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