
Hepatitis C Support Group
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.
Now grade 8 sounds to me like the Knodell grading system, so 8 out of 18. Not good; not bad.
So you had that biopsy years ago, and you did tx and cleared the virus.
Excellent!
Now provided that you are babying your liver and not doing things to harm it, you liver has been on the mend since that time.
Keep up all your exercising ( but don't overdo it), and eat well, eliminating all the bad fats and other evils.
Can you make a request from your dr for the fibrosure test? I would not recommend it to someone with Hep C in place or a real biopsy, but it may be good enough for you to get, just to see how all of you healthy efforts have affected your liver. I bet if you had the test, you would find that you're well on the road to a much healthier liver!
Best of luck in whatever you decide.
You and I are pretty much in the same situation.
Like Blue says, grade 8 fibrosis bridging is not good or bad, but since you are clear and no longer drink alcohol, and live a healthy lifestyle there is some chance that your liver has regenerated itself, maybe not completely, I do not think this is possible, but it had a stop from further damage.
Upon my biopsy, I had fibrosis bridging, did my 48 weeks journey, cleared the virus, since almost 4 years now, and never drank alcohol again and like to think that I live a pretty healthy lifestyle, but.....
In January of this year, I went for a ultrasound, for other health issue, and the tech didn't know that I had had hep c and bla bla bla, and I asked her if she saw anything wrong, she only replied that I had a damage liver, which my doctor later confirmed.
Unless I go back to my gi, and get another biopsy I won't know if it's worst or not, so it's hard to say if the liver do regenerates itself or not if the damage is already set in, I've always beleive that the damage that is already set in will stay there, even if I no longer have hep c.
What do you think?
I am currently dealing with other health issues, but in the near future, I will get my gi to give me another biopsy, if possible.
Thanks for bringing this up.
Mckenzie
one day at the time