Hi again,
So sorry to hear of your plight. For others that are interested, you have another post with pertinent info here:
http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Hepatitis-C/Scared-and-more-scared/show/1400894?personal_page_id=1896260#post_6389571
in your case, minimally they should follow with AFP and ultrasound or other imaging biannually; and good luck with the pending CT results; hopefully there won’t be anything remarkable there.
What position is your specialist taking now in terms of future therapy? How long did you treat the GT-3 originally, and which meds were utilized? Were you on flat or weight based ribavirin?
There are new meds pending approval for HCV; these are the ‘protease inhibitor’ class drugs that will be used in conjunction with interferon and ribavirin. However, they might not be overly effective for GT-3; at least the one closest to approval appeared largely ineffective for genotype 3 in trial. Still, I’d discuss these with your doctor, and get his/her take on them.
Without more data, it appears that if you’re now cirrhotic, it’s still compensated disease. This suggests that additional therapy might be possible, whereas with more advanced cirrhosis, this might not be feasible. Any thoughts on perusing more treatment, perhaps using a different tact?
Good luck; let us know how the CT results are, and also what becomes of the follow up with the GI or hepatologist follow up.
Take care,
--Bill