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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 with an infected person's blood. Many people with HCV infection have no symptoms and are unaware of the need to seek treatment. Hepatitis C infects an estimated 150-200 million people worldwide.

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alt levels

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had alt levels done again thats twice in 3 weeks down again to 92, so thats a drop in 3 weeks from 132,which was a drop from 191 in 5months , before that 231 a year before, not on tx, only taking milk thistle, and lost weight of 17 kilos in that time as well, so I suppose it all helps, or does anyone else with more info than me about hep c have any thing to add?please I have stage 4 fibrosis {we have 6 stages in uk], so about 2/3 in states?. I need your views please gill
pepy
pepy
i dont have any advice for you gill, sorry, but i do have a question if you dont mind. how did you find out you were at stage 4 fibrosis? did you have a biopsy? also where did you learn about the 6 stages for uk? is there a link you could send me pls? also, is there another stage for cirrhosis do you know? i'm asking you cos you seem to have our nhs system sussed, even so far as getting copies of your bloods. how did you do that btw? did you just ask your consultant, pay or what?
btw, i'm also on milk thistle and have lost oodles of weight (not that i'm complaining lol). i put that down to the liver or hyperthyroid rather than milk thistle tho.
good to hear your alt levels are coming down. well done you:)
keep up the good work and keep smiling cos smiling lightens the burden for you.
deleted_user
deleted_user
yes I had biopsy done after 3 years of being told about hep c which was march this year, it was horrendous, as they had to do it twice owing to hard liver , never again for me , have to try fibra scan and pay privately, I heard about it, just ask your consultant for your latest results, I had no probs
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I recently had all my bloodwork done and my ALT came back at 500. There was some query as to why its so high by my nurse specialist... she thinks its due to some other meds I'm on for diabetes... my MD is presently awaiting to hear back from the pharmaceutical association here to see what meds would be a better choice for my diabetes AND hep c... so maybe if you're on something else Gil, it might be interfering with your ALT.
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