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.
Good news is I'm still non detected from the virus after completing a 24 week treatment. I finished treatment end of July. No out of nowheres I noticed a lot of bubbles in my urine around October 1st week. Saw a doctor and he did some test and they found protien leaking in my kidneys. They say the filters are not working correctly but my kidney function is still at 75% so now they want to do a kidney biopsy. I can't understand why this is happening. I have never had by issues with my kidneys only my liver. My transplant for my liver was done September 2012. Anyone had issues like this after treatment or after liver transplant?
Please stay in touch. I miss hearing from you. Marilyn
Anywho, like Marilyn mentioned it fairly common amongst post liver transplant survivors to have problems with their kidneys and not only because of the anti-rejection drugs they, or rather we take on a daily basis. actually your kidney function started to deteriorate when your original liver started producing scar tissue from fibrosis and progressively becoming worse as the severity of the eventual cirrhosis became end stage.
The newly transplanted liver has lessened the effects of the damage already caused by your cirrhotic liver that was removed. Nonetheless, the damage is already done and unfortunately the kidneys do not regenerate.
The good news is there are some drugs used today that really slows down to halts the progression of worsening kidney function.
One drug I'm currently taking is "Phos-lo" which does help the filters to do their job and basically stabilizes your kidney function along with changes made to your diet which in the past could cause a higher than normal amount of Creatinine which is also an indicator of kidney dysfunction if it's either higher or lower than normal. In my case it was higher and now is within the normal range. I hope this is helpful. Hi Marilyn! Everything else is okay Billy? How's your new liver doing?
I had to stop diuretics for blood pressure....I was going for labs weekly.
It does get hard as we want to be cured of EVERYTHING, and I don't even want to go for any colonscopies, mammograms, anything as I just want to enjoy being rid of this virus.
I understand where your concerns.
God Bless and good to see you on the boards!!