Hi,

The first thing you need to know is that the relationship between the severity of liver cell damage and the viral count is weak at best. What's more important is how your body responds to the presence of the virus in your liver than how much virus is in your liver.

Also keep in mind that viral counts can also change within a day, and in a week, ranges varying several million copies per millitliter of serum in common. These ups and downs might not be caught at a single point of time, which is why following viral counts alone doesn't paint a full picture.

So, breathe, be ready to ask your doctor lots of questions, and remember that when the viral load elevates it doesn't mean the liver has taken more damage.
Hugs,

A liver biopsy is can help determine the damage. I had a load of 3 million, down from 6 and a few days later it was under a million and a month later in was 2 million. My perception is Dr's push treatment. I have had HCV for almost 20 years.

Hi,I echo "jbkoskine:s" opinion the numbers are worrying at first glance but mean very little, bestwishes

Thanks for responding.

I had a biopsy done about 2 years ago and I had almost no damage, especially considering I was born with Hep C and am now 27 years old.

Hey, that's one of the wierd things about this virus. Two people could get the virus at the exact same time, the same way, and twenty years later, one could be in end-stage and the other hardly any fibrosis at all.

It's really very strange, indeed.