Hepatitis C: Not What You Think

When my third child was born, I had a repeat Caesarean section; that was in 1986. I bled for many hours after that and got about six units of blood. That's how I got it but I didn't know about it for quite a while. Four years later, I gave blood and I got a letter from the American Red Cross saying that I had tested positive for what they were now calling hepatitis C. Years later, I was not feeling very well. At this point in time I would have had it 14 years, and 15 years is about when liver damage starts. The trial tests that I started in 2001, I was one of 100 patients and at the end of six months they terminated because it was not helping. I started another round. The interesting thing was that immediately, almost, I was a responder this time. I started feeling better and I have felt better since then and that's been 10 years. Even though I'm carrying this virus, it's not affecting me. Hepatitis C may not be as bad as you've heard or as you think. Find a doctor that you can trust, go with what he advises you to do. I am a case that has known for a very long time that I was a carrier, and I've had help along the way in dealing with it. It has not been the major event of my life, at all.