I suspect I got mine in 1976 from plasma . It has been so long that I thought being tired was normal. Today, and the last few days since I have become undetected I now have so much energy. I said, I did not know that I could feel this way. This is how people without hep C feel like everyday? amazing.

Tx is treatment, undie means undetectable level of virus in the blood.

me i was a raging alcoholic,,beer mostly..i felt very fatigued,,but hell i drank a case of beer a day and worked,,had a hangover every day..trying to kill the pain of the past and i mean mental pain....found out i had hepc,,freaked out dr. said stop drinking i did i got hooked on cocaine for 10 mos till my money ran out,,on a suicide mission...then went back to drinking,,crazier than ever..1997 to 1999...my mind set ,,dr .just gave me the death sentence finish it off......lost total control..got 3 dwis in 1 yr,,6 yrs prison...2000 to 2006..got treated in prison for 6 mos nonresponder..got out got good job insurance,,treated 48 wks peg/riba still non responder....a lot of things happened in my personal family life,,mind blowing to say the least.....i got my hep in the mid 80's...i don't do drugs or drink,,but could use mental help w/meds which seems i can't get...if i got help that i begged for yrs ago things would be different today...very,very long story...people think they are slick,,can do things to u thinking u are stupid,,i say shame on them...cause i'm very,very smart...now as we stand toe to toe its on like donkey kong....lol....everybody have a good day..

I contacted Liver Specialists in Houston and just got a phone call from an 800 number with a recorded meassage to join a prayer group. You can imagine how disappointing that was. I thought someone was getting back to me because they were going to see if I qualified for their trial.
Jeez, I live in a Bago, I can go right now! I know, be patient.

after a blood transfusion in 1969 I got jaundiced and was diagnosed with nonhepa, nonhepb because they hadn't yet isolated hepc (i think it isolated in the late 80s). I was sick for several months, and had elevated liver function tests for many years, decades, but then they became normal

as far as i knew, i thought i was done with hep. i thought it was like strep, you got it, you got over it , and no big deal.

Wrong. I doctor in the early 90's asked what i was doing about the hep, and i told him it's totally history from the past, and he explained just how wrong i was. Viral load got as high as 22M but between 1969 and the early 90s I never had a VL test

I was always tired. BUT when I mentioned it to an infectious disease doctor he said he bet it wasn't the hep making me tired but sleep apnea. Went for a sleep study and he was right. Got a cpap machine in 2001 and haven't been sleepy since

I think the only pre-treatment symptom I had was a sensitivity to some meds. things like certain allergy meds, or muscle relaxants, which they said would not make you sleepy, put me right to sleep and i believe (no proof) that my liver wasn't handling the drugs as well as a normal liver did

I am now 7 weeks post 40 weeks of Victrelis, and back to normal. UND and hoping for SVR at post 6 months

terminology, UND is the short term goal of being undetectable. The real goal is the VL results 6 months after treatment is over. If you are still UNDIE then, you're given the gold medal award and declared SVR, meaning sustained virological response, meaning CURED. or, in english, the little hcv bastards have not come back even after 6 months of no meds, and if they haven't figured out a way to replicate in the 6 months, they aren't coming back. You are cured and HCV is history.

Definitely party time, Carvel with sprinkles :)

I think that I may have gotten it during a c-section in 1986. It is possible that I got it from snorting cocaine but I just find that kinda hard to understand and I only did it a few times. I didn't inhale either (: But however I got it, I have always had a good energy level but have also had a bent toward depression. Because the necessity of caring for my 5 kids, I think I was never really able to succumb to the depression; but tears have always been close to the surface for me. Maybe that was from the hep c but I suspect that I just have a more melancholy nature. Maybe some of that will lift post treatment. I hope so. Lots of folks seem to have other things going on, like chronic fatigue and arthritis. It may be one of those, "which came first, the chicken or the egg" type of scenarios.
It is possible that your brain and mouth disconnect is from the distraction of the pain and fatigue. It is hard to live in the moment and responds spontaneously, when we have heavy loads bearing down on us. You may find that is something you can work on. I know folks who swear by Mindfulness Meditation to help sharpen the mind and live in the moment.

Wow 5 kids! I only had one unfortunately. He's seemed like having 5 a lot of the time. ;) You gave me some good stuff to think about. I sleep like a baby so that's not a problem, but the pain definately interferes with everything. Maybe I need to slow down and really be careful upon speaking. Thanks so much for some good input.