The purpose of this blog is to document one person's experience of Hepatatis C (genotype 1a)and its treatment. Other peoples' blogs have helped me and if this one can in some way help just one other person with Hepatitis C it will have achieved what I have set out to do. The addresss of this blog is: http://hepcblog.blogspot.com
Tuesday, 29 May 2007
Day 12 (29 May 07) Jon's Hepatitis C Treatment
Back to work. Had a good seven hours sleep - more itching but no sweats. Woke up feeling fine. Am feeling more tired (leaden, in fact) by the end of the day, so get to bed as early as possible these days.
I am a classic baby boomer - in my late fifties, a professional knowledge worker employed by a large company, and living in the south of England. I'm average weight and height and in reasonable health.
I was diagnosed with Hepatitis C by chance in June 2005. Following a biopsy I was diagnosed with genotype 1a with a hepatitis activity score of 3/18 and a fibrosis score 1/6. With a viral load of 230,000 copies/ml, I am mildly infected but still decided on taking the treatment (pegylated interferon injections and ribavirin tablets) despite the success rate for genotype 1 being of the order 40%-50%.
I do not know the cause.
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