Long Term Outlook

[pjhep80]

im wondering if anyone on here has been infected for like 40-50 years and what stage/grade... i have always heard that something like only 20% infected go on to liver failure but is this data based people infected 20-30 years ago or what?  what are the stats on people infected 40 years and beyond?

im infected 28 years or so, grade 2/stage 2

please add your stats to this thread thanks!!

[orleans]

1971-G1-stage3-now treating w/ SOC+Alinia(off label) UND at 2 weeks- 14th shot Sat nite. jerry

[HCA]

I had two risk episodes with drugs in 1978 which was undoubtedly the cause..Therefore I can claim thirty years.
I still have it with advanced fibrosis-possibly cirrhosis.
Ultrasound and MRI show nodular reconstruction on edge of liver,however fibroscan is consistently around 8.8 kps which is not cirrhotic.
I became symptomatic in year 2000.
Treated three times as non-responder and once as relapser.
Liver functions persistently normal.
I am hoping to participate in the Telaprevir phase 3 trials starting next month.

[Marcia2202]

geno 3a, baseline vl 1.3 mil, infected ca 25 years

In week 12 of tx

Could not have a biopsy, but 2 ultra sound scans showed no signs of cirrhosis nor abnormalities.

Symptomatic with severe fatigue and brain fog since Feb 08, dx in March 08

Marcia

[PegOnPeg]

I'll assume that I got infected in the 80's, tho it's progressed to Stage 2-3 over, what seems, a short amount of time, compared to others posting here.  I did get some blood during a procedure in the early 70's...It's hard to say.

Tonight was my first shot of, at least, 48..G-1, VL 13,500,000

[Isobella]

I could guess at about 28 years.  I am geno 1a, Stage 1, grade 0.  Viral load 1,040,000.  Presently in week 15 of tx.  

I was diagnosed "by accident" while being evaluated for RA.  I had no symptoms-other than the pain in my right hand that led me to the RA doc in the first place.

Isobella

[mkp13]

I got it in 1963 when I was 5 years old.  Blood transfusion during heart surgery.  So I've had it for 45 years.  When diagnosed last December I was stage 1 grade 2 with viral load at 6.23M.