“Out Of Bounds”
A forum and chat room for hepatitis c support, other patients sharing their own experiences in a friendly funny, and positive atmosphere , it is geared toward helping the newly diagnosed patient that is usually frightened and stigmatized in today's society as a drug addict or someone with past drug experiences. That is not all it's cut out to be as many people today are carrying the hepatitis c or b virus and have no idea. 500 million walk the earth and have no clue they are infected until the symptoms show up decades after the virus has attacked the liver, resulting in ten thousand people in the USA every year dying from liver failure, kidney failure, heart attack
and liver cancer and diabetes all a direct result for having hep c.
So many of theses deaths were unnecessary if they had known early on before cirrhosis does it's damage, approximately 20 to 30 years after the initial virus has been introduced.
The chances of a full recovery are greatly benefited by treating the disease in it's earliest stages, mental disorders are frequent in people with cirrhosis if not treated properly.
Depression anger and lethargy, are robbing people of their quality of life, and treatment on top of that can be a very serious problem if your Hepatologist isn't prepared to help you through the side effects. It is crucial to your quality of life to be as good as you can be before taking any of the treatments.
If you are overweight it is recommended by your physician to lose a small amount by walking if you are healthy enough, this also helps the treatment do it's job..
If you are to succeed with the treatment then you must have a head start on your recovery.
Support chat rooms are very helpful we share our experiences with you, and keep you focused on your walk to victory !
Before reading any further I must begin by saying to you if you drink alcohol and have a liver disease, you are a ticking time bomb. You must seek professional help or AA meetings to get yourself geared toward beating this virus and getting another chance at life.
Many Hepatologist's and Transplant teams require you to be without alcohol for six months before they will allow you to to be evaluated for a liver transplant if the time comes., sounds like discrimination but in fact if you want to be cured of hep c or b then it is crucial your are in the healthy mode it is your life and the doctors want to help you, so be as totally clean as possible and be very honest as to what your lifestyle is.
Everyone of us are so unique and there have been tens of thousands of deaths due to liver complications, it is a very frightening thing to see with your own eyes believe me.
I don't mean to be negative but it looks the same as the Ebola virus did in Africa, where the body simply emaciates and blows up with fluid causing congestive heart failure or pulmonary suffocation. Blood and fluids in the body are no longer where they are supposed to be, the lower perineum fills with fluid resembling a pregnant look.called ascities , or the legs and feet, from edema these can be controlled with diuretics and a strict low sodium diet.. low albumin causes ascities fluids to seep out of the veins and into the body cavity, people that are in this stage of hepatic liver failure need to be hos and it is very hard to control bleeding out, when in the last stages of the disease.
You can have cirrhosis and if you take great care of yourself, your life expectancy can be the same as a non infected person “Healthy lifestyle changes can be the best thing you do, with plenty of rest.
Liver transplant is no joke either my friends, it is a very difficult thing to go through , and most must take the treatments for hep c even after the transplant, that is if you are still detected for the hep c virus at the time of your transplant, with all theses things to consider, some will hear the side effects of treatment and be frightened away before ever trying it and others will make the decision not to treat sometimes, it is a very personal and difficult decision.
Knowledge is power and the more you learn about hep c or b the better equipped you will be to decide your future.
I have treated six different times with five separate drug combinations. I beat the hep c virus and am now 2 years and eight months post treatment sustained viral response
meaning I am cured.
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My hep c is the most common in the USA and it is a genotype called 1A.
There are so many different strains of the virus they have sub types for each of them also.
Amazing known fact is Hepatitis C virus has never been seen by anyone.
The cross matching blood tests they do for transplant receipiant's is used to confirm the virus's strain is there, and if you don't have medical insurance, you must go to a teaching University Hospital to be put on a program to save your life, it isn't easy but it is your life.
