denied treatment
Hi Gil...... I guess I am confused........ your goal is NOT to live until
you are 90? I would sure like to live until I was 90 :-) LOL Anyway,
sometimes if the docs decide you are too depressed or too suicidal they will
deny you treatment as they have had people commit suicide while on treatment
(this is even documented in the medication insert infomation) Unless your
doc is sure that your *frame of mind* is somewhat under control before you
even attempt treatment I would think you would have a hard time finding any
doc that would go ahead with it. What do you mean by low numbers? Low alt
and ast is good. Low PCR or viral load is good too! That is what
treatment tries to do is to lower the viral load. Do you have your numbers
handy? Can you post them? I started with an 8 million viral load and went
undetectable at week 7 (less that 500) so that was good, however, i had to
stop treatment at week 17 when I wound up in intensive care. My alt and
ast has never been particularly abnormal...... they always hover at the high
normal end so numbers don't always tell the tale. Have you had a liver
biopsy? If you have normal LFTs and no liver damage and a low viral load I
wouldn't see much point in treatment right now :-) Hope this
helps.....Who knows..... you might even clear it on your own........ some
people have!........ There are lots of links to lots of good info at my site
at http://www.diac.com/~ekwall2/hepchat/links.shtml and if you go further
down the page there is a link for blood test explanations............. Good
luck!
Peace and Love,
Pam
Dogs come when they're called. Cats take a message and get back to you. --
Missy Dizick