>>>If anyone's into photography, you might want to play here...
>>>http://www.flickr.com/groups/hepdance/
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>I'm the girl, but you wouldn't recognize me today... have a look at the
>Fambly Album! Now I'm SVR, fat and happy, and, yes, there is life after tx!
>>>>If anyone's into photography, you might want to play here...
>>>>http://www.flickr.com/groups/hepdance/
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> That yellow look, then, is just the way the photo was taken. Right?
The yellow cast was applied with PhotoShop... seemed to suit the subject.
> It is good to hear you have SVR, but if your liver was compromised
> enough to give you the yellow tint that shows in the photo then you
> would still be in bad shape Right?
Treatment, in most cases, allows the liver to repair varying degrees of
damage caused by HCV. Before tx, I had bridging fibrosis/cirrhosis, but I
haven't had a second biopsy to see how much, if any, the situation improved.
However, I was highly symptomatic before treatment (had been for nearly 20
years) but now I have few, if any, symptoms of liver disease. My only
complaint is aching joints in the morning, but this may only be mild
arthritis and, because it's more of an annoyance than a problem, I've not
seen a doctor about it.
> You see a lot of yellow people at Emory. Most of the time when you
> get yellow, treatment is no longer an option.
I never did go yellow, one reason that doctors didn't think to look for
hepatitis. It seems that there's not much rhyme nor reason to who shows
jaundice with hep c, although it's true that end-stage liver disease will
always cause jaundice.
Waterspider