Re: about my mom who was newly diagnoised

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She needs to find out the condition of her liver. The biopsy will tell her doctor that information. If she has only had it for 3 years, chances are her liver has not even suffered damage. To be honest, at this point, does it really matter how she got it? All thats gonna do is drive her crazy trying to figure it out. Bottom line is that she has it. Thats my opinion.

She has to process this diagnoses in her own way so get all the information that is available to her so she can be intelligently informed about her condition.

There are different stages of liver damage and I have had this disease for 25 years and the damage to my liver is not that bad. Everyone is different. So ask your doctor what her damage is. My doctor told me not to drink. He says that will take you down faster than just about anything else. Also there is tons of info out there on what kind of diet is good to maintain good liver health.

This disease is not a death sentance by any means. There is treatment available and new medications that will be availalable in the near future.

Subject: about my mom who was newly diagnoisedTo: HepatitisCSupportGroupForDummies Date: Sunday, February 28, 2010, 8:05 AM

i was diagnoised in 03 with hep c . my mom was diagniosed in 09 with hep c. i got it from a ex who was a hemophiliac and she does not knbow how she got it. she had a blood transfusionm almost three years ago. i want to know can hep c go undetected for years and still be in your body, if so how manny years? could she have gotten it from me, ionly had normal contact with my mom. she had a biopsy done on her liverfew days ago. she is geno type 1 and i am 2a. she is very concerned if she will live and how she got it. could she have accidently gotten it from a needle that was contaiminated when she was recooperating in a nursing home after her gastric bipass surgey.my mom is not old only 56 years old. can someone tell me or give me answers please.bernice

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Hi Hun, Yes, HCV can & does go for years undetected. I got it in 1969 & wasn't dx'd(diagnosed) until 1990 & then only because I asked to be tested My 1st G I told me that I was lucky 'cause most people didn't find out until they started showing symptoms & that was "just before the end" If you're different genos you didn't give it to each other so quit worrying. She could have caught it from a contaminated needle, a transfusion, a tattoo or lots of other ways - the important thing now is that she has it NOT how she got it.BTW, I'm 60 yrs old & I got it the traditional way, shooting drugs.SuZieThe problem with the gene pool? No lifeguards! Subject: about my mom who was newly diagnoisedTo: HepatitisCSupportGroupForDummies Date: Sunday, February 28, 2010, 11:05 AM

i was diagnoised in 03 with hep c . my mom was diagniosed in 09 with hep c. i got it from a ex who was a hemophiliac and she does not knbow how she got it. she had a blood transfusionm almost three years ago. i want to know can hep c go undetected for years and still be in your body, if so how manny years? could she have gotten it from me, ionly had normal contact with my mom. she had a biopsy done on her liverfew days ago. she is geno type 1 and i am 2a. she is very concerned if she will live and how she got it. could she have accidently gotten it from a needle that was contaiminated when she was recooperating in a nursing home after her gastric bipass surgey.my mom is not old only 56 years old. can someone tell me or give me answers please.

bernice

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i think if you have different geno types than you didnt get it from eachother

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> i was diagnoised in 03 with hep c . my mom was diagniosed in 09 with hep c. i

got it from a ex who was a hemophiliac and she does not knbow how she got it.

she had a blood transfusionm almost three years ago. i want to know can hep c go

undetected for years and still be in your body, if so how manny years? could she

have gotten it from me, ionly had normal contact with my mom. she had a biopsy

done on her liverfew days ago. she is geno type 1 and i am 2a. she is very

concerned if she will live and how she got it. could she have accidently gotten

it from a needle that was contaiminated when she was recooperating in a nursing

home after her gastric bipass surgey.my mom is not old only 56 years old. can

someone tell me or give me answers please.

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