Guest guest Posted June 4, 2004 Report Share Posted June 4, 2004 , I'm with you on this one. I was DXed in '92 and have had it for at least 27 years and have cirrhosis and I can't tolerate treatment. It just sounds too early for DX and for tmt.! A second opinion might be in order here. I'd like to hear more feedback on this one. Bob Drury Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 5, 2004 Report Share Posted June 5, 2004 OOPS MADE A MISTAKE .DOES ANYONE KNOWHOW I CAN TELL HOW LONG THE HEP C HAS BEEN IN MY SYSTEM I HAD A TEST THREE YEARS AGO IT WAS NEGATIVE BERNICE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 5, 2004 Report Share Posted June 5, 2004 First of all I would like to thank all of you for welcoming me to this group. I can tell there is a lot of first hand knowledge to be obtained. As I said at the first my son got tatoos the beginning of 2003. Actually his real father ( we have been divorced for 15 years.) was working at the tattoo parlor in Dallas, TX. He gave them to my son at the parlor. I have custody of my son. His father had asked me if he could give them to him. I told him absoloutely no. He did it anyway on his weekend visit. I took him in for a yearly physical in Aug. The doctor asked how long he had the tatoos. I told her 7 or 8 months. She said she wanted to do test. Test came back positive. She then sent us to Childrens Medical Ctr.. They did a liver biopsy in Sept. and said they did not want to start treatment at this time. In meantime we moved to Oklahoma. I told our new primary doctor here in Oklahoma what happened. He sent him for more blood test here. Then he referred him to specialist. The specialist immediatly said at his age it would be stupid not to start him on treatment now because he was so young with a possible long life ahead of him. I talked to the health dept of Texas and Oklahoma. I was told that in TX there was no law requiring a license in TX. Oklahoma does not allow tatoos at all in their state. I talked to child protective services about possible child abuse charges against my X husband. They said we could not positively say for sure that is where he got it. I did learn later from my x husbands sister that he had told her a couple of yrs ago that he had Hep. C. I ask the health dept how many more people might have gotten this from him also. She said there is no way of knowing because they do not even have to keep a recored of who they give tatoos to so they could notify people they need to get checked. I think this is all a bunch of bull!!!!!! Sorry to ramble on so long. Cheryl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 5, 2004 Report Share Posted June 5, 2004 No. One can only guess. In your case less than three years, which, in hepatitis C terms, is not long. Doug > OOPS MADE A MISTAKE .DOES ANYONE KNOWHOW I CAN TELL HOW LONG THE HEP C HAS > BEEN IN MY SYSTEM I HAD A TEST THREE YEARS AGO IT WAS NEGATIVE > BERNICE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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