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Negative!!!
Lesson learned elevated ALT AST do not mean HCV +!!
Thanks for all your positive vibes and prayers.
Your HCV brother,
James
Lesson learned elevated ALT AST do not mean HCV +!!
Thanks for all your positive vibes and prayers.
Your HCV brother,
James
You sound tremendously relieved. I know I would be.
Perhaps another moral to the story is that ALT & AST within the reference intervals does not necessarily mean one does not have the virus.
Mine were only slightly out of range of the LabCorp reference intervals when I was first tested (2003) and have always been lower or mid-range ever since. Don't remember what the LabCorp reference intervals were back then. I **think** something like ( 0-55 ALT / 0-40 AST ). But I was positive for HCV AB & negative for A, B & HIV)
I just noticed on my current labs the LabCorp reference interval for both values now is 0 - 40 and on 13 Jan 2012 my baseline AST was 29 & ALT was 27.
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I'm just saying while ALT & AST values are the key (red flag) indicators, alone they aren't entire meaningful. In your case, you were understandably freaked and worried and in my case I may not have ever tested for HCV since my labs were basically OK.
Perhaps another moral to the story is that ALT & AST within the reference intervals does not necessarily mean one does not have the virus.
Mine were only slightly out of range of the LabCorp reference intervals when I was first tested (2003) and have always been lower or mid-range ever since. Don't remember what the LabCorp reference intervals were back then. I **think** something like ( 0-55 ALT / 0-40 AST ). But I was positive for HCV AB & negative for A, B & HIV)
I just noticed on my current labs the LabCorp reference interval for both values now is 0 - 40 and on 13 Jan 2012 my baseline AST was 29 & ALT was 27.
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I'm just saying while ALT & AST values are the key (red flag) indicators, alone they aren't entire meaningful. In your case, you were understandably freaked and worried and in my case I may not have ever tested for HCV since my labs were basically OK.
Whew-hooo!!! Once again, statistics prove to be right about these things...but still, I would've been so worried also!
Have fun celebrating!
Have fun celebrating!
Yes!!! Very happy to hear my friend. After a big sigh of relief, now you can focus on enjoying life.
that is some awesome news dude....go out and celebrate...it must feel great....now punch yourself in the liver and tell it to behave OR ELSE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
...aren't liver's attention ho's....they always have to be the most important organ in our body......now give it a beotch slap and kick it to the curb..
...aren't liver's attention ho's....they always have to be the most important organ in our body......now give it a beotch slap and kick it to the curb..
James I thought the same thing, called my doctor made an emergency appointment - got there and he laughed at me.
We get obsessive a bit dont we?
I am VERY VERY glad for your good news!!!!!!! Just remember they go up and down up and down up and down LOL unless they climb into the hundreds I wouldn't freak. Although in June I was in the hospital and the doctors were freaking out mine were so high - turned out it was related to my heart having arrythmia and bleeding ulcers in my gut (was a bad time for me lOL) somehow, had nothing at all to do with my liver. I knew it didn't but they started freaking me out because they didn't know!
But now you and I both do, we've learned that lesson the hard way ;)
SO happy for you and your peace of mind!
We get obsessive a bit dont we?
I am VERY VERY glad for your good news!!!!!!! Just remember they go up and down up and down up and down LOL unless they climb into the hundreds I wouldn't freak. Although in June I was in the hospital and the doctors were freaking out mine were so high - turned out it was related to my heart having arrythmia and bleeding ulcers in my gut (was a bad time for me lOL) somehow, had nothing at all to do with my liver. I knew it didn't but they started freaking me out because they didn't know!
But now you and I both do, we've learned that lesson the hard way ;)
SO happy for you and your peace of mind!
Oh I am so relieved for you!!!! I will admit I would have been worried as well with the ast alt. but now you know you are still SVR! Wonderful! Now take a big sigh of relief!
:) Laura
:) Laura
Great news James, glad to hear it, wishing you all the best.
Have a great day
Keith
Have a great day
Keith
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