Anyone here cured of hepatitis C?

driftingpanther42 said:Is this seriously all we’re getting on this thread? Are you kidding me? We’re talking about colonoscopies, sketchy behavior, and STDs, but absolutely nothing about hepatitis... I'm losing my mind here. It feels like the only uneducated losers out there actually deal with this stuff. Who am I even supposed to turn to for advice now? Slomljena71, where are you at?

Oh, really? You didn't know? Just because you aren't some high-and-mighty DOCTOR doesn't mean your liver isn't going to take a hit.

Scott Allen10 said:So why aren't you posting anything about hepatitis C? You've only made one single post here, and that was just this quote above.
Write something up—your experience, treatments, side effects... I bet people will respond.🙂

I literally just found out I have it, so I don't really have any experiences to share yet. I'm still doing my own research, and once I actually have something worth saying, I'll post it. My dad passed away the day before yesterday, so honestly, I couldn't care less about hepatitis C or any of my own stupid problems right now. It's all my fault anyway.

lonepanther4 said:That’s just talk. Hepatitis C is incurable. But hey, hope dies last...

😕 It’s honestly wild how some people act like experts just to spread misinformation.

I had hepatitis C, genotype 1.
I went through that whole brutal treatment with Pegasus and ribavirin, and well, it's been 2 years and 10 months since I finished, and I'm still negative. 🙏

And I'm staying that way. 😁

Anyway, pretty much enough for my first post... if anyone has questions, fire away. 😉

goldenfox24 said:I actually know a former addict who’s totally sober now, and she mentioned that while the road to recovery is incredibly long and exhausting, it really is possible to overcome it if you stay the course.

I suppose what she was referring to was addiction specifically.🙂

By the way, from my own experience, I’ve found that hepatitis B can almost be self-resolving.
You catch it, you deal with it, and then eventually, you just move past it and it's gone.
As for hepatitis C, I guess I’ll have a better idea about whether it's fully curable in about six months.

David Sanchez6 said:I suspect she was referring to addiction🙂

On a separate note, hepatitis B is self-limiting—at least, that’s my experience.
You contract it, you live with it, and then you move past it.
As for hepatitis C, I should know if it’s curable in about six months.

Don't talk nonsense; hepatitis B isn't "self-healing." It’s not like a common cold that just wanders in and out of your system.😂,I haven't heard such a nonsensical claim in quite some time.😂,Besides, if it were truly self-correcting, nobody would bother with vaccinations.

Stop feeding false hope to the gullible. Don't disregard medical science like this; you risk people avoiding necessary treatment because they mistakenly believe they'll just recover on their own.

On the other hand, if by "self-healing" you meant completing a course of medication and then being cured, fine—but let's be clear, that isn't "self-healing."

David Sanchez6 said:I suppose she was likely referring to addiction🙂

By the way, I believe hepatitis B is essentially self-limiting—at least, that seems to be my experience
you contract it, you live with it for a while, and then you eventually move past it
As for hepatitis C, I should probably know if it’s curable in about six months or so

There was actually a guy staying in the hospital with me who had hepatitis B, and he was being treated with the same interferon as I was

Zachary Davis5 said:He was in the hospital with me dealing with hepatitis B, and he was on the exact same interferon regimen I was.

That’s precisely my point. There is no such thing as "spontaneous recovery" in this context; if you actually clear the virus, it requires medical intervention. If you need therapy to get better, then calling it spontaneous healing is a fallacy. David Sanchez6 wrote about his hepatitis recovery as if he were just fighting off a common cold rather than battling hepatitis B.

I honestly can't wrap my head around how anyone could frame it that way.

Sandra Martin72 said:That’s my point, really—there is no such thing as spontaneous recovery if you actually require therapy to get better; if you need treatment, then it isn't spontaneous. Besides, David Sanchez6 wrote as though he had simply recovered from a common cold rather than hepatitis B, which seems a bit much.

I suppose I don't quite understand how one could even frame it that way.

I guess people will say just about anything online, regardless of how much they might be enduring in reality.

So, I think for most people dealing with hepatitis B, their immune system just handles it and clears the virus out on its own.
But then, for that smaller group where it turns into a chronic thing, they usually go with interferon treatment.

Sandra Martin72 said:don't talk nonsense,.....

Wait, what?
I actually had hepatitis B and got right over it while I was on methadone
unless, I guess, using heroin counts as actual medical therapy now?

David Sanchez6 said:Wait, what?
I had hep b too and got over it while I was on meth
unless using heroin counts as therapy now?

Nah, doesn't count😁
I actually cleared mine without any heroin involved🙏

I’ve been living with this since '93. Back then, they had only just started using markers for H&P-C, and God knows how long I was carrying it before that. I got married back in '87 without having any clue the disease even existed—honestly, nobody knew anything back then, and looking at things now, it feels like we still haven't caught up much. We had a kid in '93, and that's when I finally found out I was positive because I was a blood donor; they were the first ones to run the checks on us. My wife and daughter have both been tested regularly, at least once a year, and they're both NEGATIVE! Currently, I'm on Pegasus, which is brutal. It’s a 48-week marathon, and I’ve got about 3 weeks left to go, so I'll post my results once I'm through. Just for context, types 1 and 4 have about a 50% cure rate, whereas types 2 and 3 hit closer to 80 or 90%. For types 1 and 4, you're stuck with 48 weeks of treatment, while 2 and 3 usually wrap up in 24.

It is a brutal disease. For seven years, I watched my mother and the rest of our family grapple with its consequences. It is believed she contracted it via a blood transfusion sometime before 1990. While she had wonderful doctors, the illness progressed so aggressively that she fell into that unfortunate statistical minority—those few where complications escalate so rapidly that standard therapy becomes impossible. In January 2007, she was finally placed on the transplant waiting list. We actually missed out on the first available liver because there was a higher-priority patient in Chicago at that exact moment. I truly hope that individual is doing well and has recovered. My mother, unfortunately, never made it to a second opportunity; she passed away last October due to a cascade of complications stemming from cirrhosis. For the better part of this past year, she spent 80% of her time in the hospital, during which time I essentially earned a self-taught degree by studying alongside the specialist treating her, who was practically an expert on hepatitis C and its systemic effects. People are profoundly misinformed about hepatitis, and it falls upon all of us to strip away this wretched stigma once and for all.
To everyone currently fighting hepatitis C: stay strong. If you follow your doctors' instructions to the letter, embrace modern therapies, and maintain a disciplined lifestyle, there is a very high probability of recovery.
You can find a wealth of information through organizations like Hepatos in Miami, whether through their phone lines, their websites, or even their local meetups. 😉