Hepatitis C Discussion Board

No November Support Group

Conrad — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:36:29 GMT

There will be no Support Group for the month of November. Sorry for the late notice.

disclosure

Sue — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:51:32 GMT

I was successfully treated for HCV 6 years ago. A recent blood test confirms no detectable virus at this time. I have been a volunteer in a search and rescue organization for 5 years. The organization is now asking for medical history, allergies and current medications to be kept on file in the event of a member medical emergency during a search in order to provide relevant information to emergency medical responders. I am unsure if my HCV status is relevant to initial emergency treatment and would appreciate any feedback. Thank you.

after

sydney — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 15:22:49 GMT

hi my name is Sydney, I had the hideous treatment five yrs, ago, however it did save my life, I have been hep free for 5yrs, however i still have cirrhosis and fatty liver decease,
what i don't understand is what to expect. I have all the same pre treatment symptoms
yet on a much lesser scale. I never know is this pain from my liver or is it something Else? my doctor never seems to have definitive answers for me? any one have some insight?

October Support Group

Conrad — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:07:56 GMT

October Hep C Support Group will be held on Saturday October 17th from 10:30am-12:00pm, at St. Stepehen's next door to the SLO Hep C office.
I will be there til at least 10:45. We need more than 2 participants to show to have group and if no one is there by 10:45 I do leave.

Thanks
Conrad

Google Ad Sense and Scam.com

workerinternet — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 16:08:21 GMT

Google Ad Sense is an advertisement service from Google. The web site owner activate an account with Google to place advertisement on their web site. When a person clicks this advertisement, the web site owner gets an average commission of .45 cents. A web site that gets a lot of traffic, they can easily make $150,000 per month.

Scam.com is a message board claiming to be informing the public about scams being done by companies or individuals. This web sites have individuals working for them for the sole purpose of targeting companies or individuals in order to generate traffic to the web site (Additionally some posters with connection to scam.com have Google ads in their posts). This method is artificially generating traffic to the web site, this is FRAUD as outlined by Google Ad Sense policy. The higher the traffic, the higher the percentage of individuals that will click onto the Google advertisements.

Additionally, Individuals post copy right information of companies on scam.com; web site owners request from scam.com to remove their copy right information and scam.com refuse. This is also against the policy of the Google Ad Sense program.

If you believe that you are being targeted by individuals on scam.com; simply click the Ads by Google in the bottom right hand corner of the advertisement on the web site. You will be taken to a Google page, click onto: Report a policy violation regarding the site or ads you just saw

File a report and the Google Fraud Department will investigate

September Support Group

Conrad — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 21:17:08 GMT

September Hep C Support Group will be held on Saturday September 19th from 10:30am-12:00pm, at St. Stepehen's next door to the SLO Hep C office.
I will be there til at least 10:45. We need more than 2 participants to show to have group and if no one is there by 11:45 I do leave.

Thanks
Conrad

My posts

kathy renou — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 05:50:29 GMT

Could you please remove my posts. I didn't realize that my name and everything I said would show up on the internet when I google my name. Please remove everything..............
Kathy

to treat or not?

josey w — Thur, 07 May 2009 01:12:03 GMT

Was diagnosed 2 years ago now (36yrs old), got really sick after a few weeks of binge drinking, got tested found out i was postive. Seems a tatoo i received when i was 16 is the likely culprit. Did the biospy thing and the doc said i was a canidate for interferon (48 weeks). That was the last time i spoke to the doc, its been well over a year now, i am healthy have no effects. Am i kidding myself? should i be in treatment? will this disease kill me if i dont clear it?

hepatitis c and liver disease

liverhealth — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:43:12 GMT

A free commnity for patients with liver disease, hepetitis c, fatty liver, liver cirrhosis and liver cancer. If you have any questions or experience, pls share with us and those patients who need such information.
w w w.liver-health.info

anyone find this new board?

Milret2 — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 04:30:36 GMT

Just a test message to see if anyone else is finding the new message board SLOHepC has now. Post if you see my post here;-)/

Help Needed

Brittany — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 22:24:56 GMT

I am a college student working on an advertising campaign to raise awareness for Hepatitis C. We are doing primary research and I would appreciate anyone filling out this short survey. It is very important that I have people fill this out so I can make a campaign that will call people to action to get tested for this silent killer. I want to help people and anyone filling this out would be great. Thank you.

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=sRdx1U0aOQwXEh6K7_2bmXZg_3d_3d

Scared to start treatment

kris — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 03:42:29 GMT

I was diagnosed approx. 7 months ago with hep c and I am so tired of being sick and tired. I have had the biopsy & went through all the tests. My doctor recommends me now starting treatment but I feel terrible some days and I want to be cleared of this horrible disease.I am 34 years old and want to live my life without feeling sick all the time....any info on this disease is helpful to me and greatly appreciated

Marijuana and hep C

trekie — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 03:47:37 GMT

Hello to everyone,
Here in California I see that one of the disease mention for medical marijuana is hep c. i was wondering if anyone has tried it for their hep c and did it help them or is this a bad ideal. I suffer a lot of pain since treatment and I am looking for the best way to help with the pain issue with out to much damage to my liver. Thank for any input you can give me.
trekie

Drinking Alcohol

LA — Thur, 12 Feb 2009 13:35:16 GMT

Does anyone know if drinking alcohol after clearing the virus can cause it to become active again?

optical nerve

thain — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 17:58:25 GMT

After 33 weeks of treatment on pegatron and riboviron I woke up with a small grey spot in the middle of my field of vision. I went in to the emerg. right away as I had read that there was a risk of detached retina while on treatment. They could not see anything and sent me to an eye specialist the next day. He said the treatment had caused damage to the optical nerve and to stop the meds. Over the next few days I went blind in this eye. I'm lucky as since I have found out that there are quite a few people that have gone completely blind in both eyes as a result of the treatment. Why was I not advised that this was a possibility? I was not sick at all with my hep c and if I had known about this risk I very well might have decided not to proceed with the treatment. I'm just waiting on the results of my virus load test and I pray that it's been cleared or I have lost an eye for nothing along with being deathly sick for 33 weeks.