Although I am on the way to riding my self of Hep C I still have stage four cirrhosis. I will probably continue to have anxiety until the day it finally gives out or something else gets me first.

I battle the anxiety by keeping physically active as much as possible.

I pray this anxiety and depression will go away too. It has been hovering over me for too long now. The worry of someone ever finding out I had this disease, i.e. the stigma, is what was killing me more than anything else. Being single, I had to worry about ever becoming intimate with some so for the most part, I felt it was just easier to stay single.

I don't have anxiety about the hep c coming back, don't think it will. But sometimes, I feel a little anxious about the possibility of the liver cancer coming back, or that I may have progressed to cirrhosis in my second liver before I had treatments last Spring. I should know if that is true in July when I have my annual exams. Mostly, at my age of 70, I'm just considering each new day a blessing.

I can totally relate to your anxiety - I was really bad with anxiety in the past.

Now that it is FINALLY sinking in that I am "cured" or SVR, first you don't believe it, (I have had this for over 25 years), but it starts to sink in.
I did then go through a stage of depression as my whole past life was all about "getting rid or dealing with the Hep C problems" - also fears of the awful death, etc.

Now since that is in the past - I do focus that my liver will heal itself slowly and I have signs already of that just by the type of bowel movements and the urine color....

I don't have tons of energy that others describe, but my anxiety is finally leaving me.....I am believing the lab reports and my doctor that this is really gone.......

I don't lay awake at night or think all day about this awful disease.
We have all been truly blessed and now I pray for the ones still trying to get these fantastic meds!!

You will feel different - first total elation and happiness - then for me it took a while to get it out of my head, but it is gone along with the anxiety!!
God bless and good luck...

I would say the anxiety is at its highest during treatment. For me, the anxiety has diminished since finishing tx but even more since I've been declared cured. I now am more
Self conscious about what I do to my body such as meds and what I eat. While I am not anal about my diet I am eating healthier than I ever have in my life. So in a nutshell, I'm moving forward one day at a time. N

It goes away. I am also doing things I have never done for myself in my life. Eating better, riding my bikes around 100-150 miles a week. Just doing more healthy stuff. I figure the good Lord wasn't done with me so when he calls I will be in the best shape I can be! I honestly don't even consider that hep-c could come back.
Bless you
Bill

Hey fishboy. I like that attitude. I always tell everyone that when I die, I'm going to die in shape. Riding a bicycle is the method of choice.

I am 11 weeks post TX and it just gets better all the time...

ONE YEAR!! yes, it gets better all the time!!

YES....I was hoping this is real...!!!

I was very anxious prior to tx...to the point of having such bad attacks I'd have to pull over when driving. All of that is gone. I still have regular anxiety associated with everyday living, but it's nothing like it was. I hope the same for you, Brigid.

My doctor said the only way for me to have it would be to be reinfected. So I don't worry about that at all.

Havhope,
The pain and such will not just dissappear overnight. I've gradually got to feeling better and better....you should too as your liver begins the healing process

Havehope - maybe it also depends what other drugs you are on too. I just finished tx but I am having a bad reaction to another drug I am on. Hopefully it will clear up soon.

Like Sandydo, my anxiety was at the "pulling off the road" point. No mo, I'm happy to say. I have noticed how my body seems to function quite differently and better than before tx. Unfortunately I had a few issues from the tx...dental and skin, but oh well.

Hope you are soon free from the C.