Thanks Stephen for your insight, I will go for the ALT test today
Thank you so much, the doctor I'm seeing now is a liver specialist, my family doctor referred me to him, I will have to suggest all this to him
As you just crossed 40, if you want to be extra safe you can schedule appointment with a liver specialist every 6 months, and few weeks before each appointment do the following tests:
- DNA
- ALT (liver function tests)
- Ultrasound and AFP (this is for liver cancer screening that all of us do)
Once per year you can do Fibroscan,
So long your results are in following range:
- DNA bellow 2000 IU
- ALT less then 30 IU
- Fibroscan less then 6 kPa.
- AFP and ultrasound should be normal
then you are in excellent shape.
If one of these (sometimes in future) returns irregular then you could follow your virus more closely - do DNA and ALT tests every 3 months...and if the virus then keeps causing damage then you simply start taking a medicine (tenofovir or entecavir) that are nowadays very developed...but based on the results you have so far it seems you don't need them now.
Thanks guys, the biopsy was done in 1999, so all these years I never took any medication or even worry about it, but now that I'm getting older and learning more about this disease, that's why I went back to the doctor in 2012, I guess I have to insist on AST/ ALT and fibroscan to the doctor, it's sad but I don't think some of these doctors are very knowledgeable about this disease
Thank you for your response, yes I am a male, my doctor never ordered ALT test
Thanks for your response, yes I am a male, but the doctor never ordered ALT test, for the last four years io only do hbsag, hbsag, hbv Dna, AFP AND Ultrasound, that's all he wants
I guess your ALT was allways bellow 35 if you are a male?