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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Hepatitis / April 2007Dragonslayer?
Well, maybe. 2 months and 1 week post treatment now. I am not scheduled for a qualatative test for another 4 months. However, I had occasion to get an alt test from my alternative health care provider last week. I got the results today. My 2 month post treatment alt levels are 36. THATS NORMAL!! and very encouraging to me since I had stage 3 grade 3 liver disease at the start of treatment. When I started treatment I watched my alt levels slowly go down as the virus was killed. At the end of treatment my alt level was 61. It never went this low on treatment.One would think that if the virus was coming back my alt levels would rise again. Happy, happy, joy, joy. >Well, maybe. 2 months and 1 week post treatment now. I am not >scheduled for a qualatative test for another 4 months. [quoted text clipped - 13 lines] > >Happy, happy, joy, joy. Yup, "persistently normal ALT" is one of the criteria for "cure". And it's not unusual to have elevated LFTs and even "liver pain" while beating the snot out of the virus. There's a war going on, son ;-) Good for you, man. It sure looks like the dragon has left your building :-) Cheers /greyhackles > >Well, maybe. 2 months and 1 week post treatment now. I am not > >scheduled for a qualatative test for another 4 months. [quoted text clipped - 26 lines] > > - Show quoted text - And I appreciate your comments over the last 1 1/2 years , they were always right on target. > Well, maybe. 2 months and 1 week post treatment now. I am not > scheduled for a qualatative test for another 4 months. [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > THATS NORMAL!! and very encouraging to me since I had stage 3 grade 3 > liver disease at the start of treatment. Excellent news. My liver enzymes returned to normal levels within two weeks of starting Tx (They weren't terribly high to start with), stayed normal all the way thru Tx and are still normal at five months post Tx, as well as still virus free at this point. But on the other hand, I probably had this for up to 2 - 30 years and my liver enzymes were NEVER elevated until about three-four years ago - and I suspect that that change was due to my taking up Beer with Football, baseball and hockey watching again. Hell what good is a TailGate Party without Beer???? FWIW, I remember in the early stages of Tx, my BLCD was actually encouraged not only by the rapid drop in liver levels, but the fact that Tx was totally kicking my a.s. His comments were that in his experience, the people who had the worst "sides" and rapid drop in ALT, were the ones for whom treatment was actually working. He said that the fact that I was being beat to sh.t indicated to him that Tx was working and there was "a war goin on in there" - that the less "reaction" to the meds, the less likely that it would be a successful Tx - that at that time he had a couple of patients coming up on the 12 week mark who had had a fairly easy time of it so far, and he suspected that their 12 week testing would not show the 10-log drop, and their Tx would be discontinued as a result as Non-repsonders. I saw him this week for the first time since post TX and getting the news I am still undetectable and I swear he was more excited than I was! haha! Makes you wonder how often he sees results like this. Hang in there, you're on Your Way!!!!! :) > My liver enzymes returned to normal levels within two weeks of > starting Tx (They weren't terribly high to start with), stayed normal [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > > Hang in there, you're on Your Way!!!!! :) I probably had it for at least 30 years, maybe even up to 40. Side effects during treatment were minimal. "the people who had the worst "sides" and rapid drop in ALT, were the ones for whom treatment was actually working" I don't think that this is really true although it is comforting if you're having bad sides and you have normal ALT/AST. I had normal ALT/AST during my first treatment but relapsed. This time my ALT/AST are elevated (go figure) but I'm still hoping for an SVR. Many people, I'm told, have elevated ALT/AST during tx yet still get an SVR. Jack > My liver enzymes returned to normal levels within two weeks of > starting Tx (They weren't terribly high to start with), stayed normal [quoted text clipped - 24 lines] > > Hang in there, you're on Your Way!!!!! :) You know, in the two years plus some months that I have been active and wallflower on this group, this discussion has started many times, without any resolution. I think that generally, the intensity or timing of the side effects really don't seem to indicate what the tx plus 6 month PCR will say. here we go. just don't believe what the chipmunks tell ya if you go manic near the end. :) enjoy it while you can. what else would you rather be doing? heh heh cactus jammies ---------------------- > "the people who had the worst "sides" and rapid drop in > ALT, were the ones for whom treatment was actually working" [quoted text clipped - 35 lines] >> >> Hang in there, you're on Your Way!!!!! :) |
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