What is Hepatitis C
Hepatitis C is a blood-borne viral disease which can cause liver inflammation, fibrosis, cirrhosis and liver cancer. The hepatitis C virus (HCV) is spread by blood-to-blood contact...
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What do you do when your doctors office calls and says you have hep C.Two weeks later I see him and he says he didnt even test me for it!?! I got this information Tuesday at my follow up after being prescribed' at my request ' for campral. I'm greatly relieved but still pissed. He said he took responsibility as it was his staff that called me. Do I write a letter to the practice? This should not happen to anyone!
Posted on 11/05/09, 06:11 pm |
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Just be happy it was a mistaken call. 
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I agree with marlyn, be happy it was a mistake! That's awesome! You don't have to do tx, and your liver is fine!
Have you been tested for hep c?
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It could have been a false positive so maybe they called you before they should have. Did you have blood tests done at all?
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I did have blood tests..liver panel...elevated, which he and I suspected anyway. He told he he did not test me for hepC at that time Before i left his office he said he was going to test me for it in 4 weeks,just to put my mind at rest.
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Yea I would get a re-test, my liver enzymes were elevated only by 3 points when they discovered I had hep-c.
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sorry to hear about the mess. how awful that the office called and told you this!
you probably need to be tested for hep C anyway. just to be sure especially if your enzymes are elevated? maybe you just have the antibodies to hep C which means your body cleared the virus all on it's own when you first got it. keep us posted as to what happens, ok?
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