I finished taking my last Ribavirin pills on a Wednesday morning, by the next day I could feel the spring in my step starting to return. Whether this was a psychological thing or not, who knows,  but the fact was that I started to feel better almost immediately. Don’t get me wrong I had never …

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Amen to that! Yes, that’s right folks, it seems that I have wilfully broken the golden rule of hepatitis C treatment. I opened a can of the amber nectar and enjoyed a few cans of the good stuff! Yeah, yeah, yeah…. I know you are not supposed to go anywhere near alcohol on hep c …

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OK, so I lied. In my last post I said that I would be posting regular updates on my hep c treatment blog but things haven’t really worked out that way. I’ve been super busy at work and don’t seem to have had a great deal of spare time. Anyway, here I am. And this …

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Ok, well it has been an eventful time since my last post! I am now officially on Hepatitis C triple therapy treatment and have been for 5 days now. I took my first shot of interferon last Wednesday at 5pm. 6 hours later I was in shivering and shaking like I have never shaken before …

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Ok, so here it is the results of my liver biopsy which was described in my last post. Firstly, it is good news… very good news. There is no fibrosis or cirrhosis and indeed the only problem I have is that there is some inflammation of the liver. The doctor was happy for me and …

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As outlined in my last post I undertook a liver biopsy recently to ascertain the extent of the damage to my liver as a result of my ongoing hepatitis C infection. The procedure itself went very well. I arrived at 8.30 in the morning and was briefed by a nurse on what to expect. I …

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OK, so it has been a long time since my last post. The reason for that is basically not a lot has happened recently. I have been ‘watchfully waiting’ as regards the Hepatitis C virus. I was offered treatment last year (July) but put it off whilst I settled into a new job. The new …

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I got a text message from the NHS booking system two days ago reminding me about an appointment I had for today. To be honest I hadn’t realised there was one scheduled but never mind. So I went along to the same ward as last time, reported to reception and took a seat. About half …

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