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are there any other treatments besides the interferon that anyone knows about?
"So, unless I find something else, the long-term increased immunity may just refer to being unable to contract your genotype again."
No I do not think so - there is no reason we cannot get our same genotype again. That doesn't even make sense in a million years. To think I could go out and start shooting Geno 1A and 1B infected blood and not get infected is really a marvelous pipe dream but it's a VIRUS. Some people are so worried they change tooth brushes every single day in fear.
I just do not believe that anybody who's gotten to SVR has any reason to think they are less likely to catch it than anybody else. Which is probably how I ended up with already two kinds of A in a way. You can be infected over and over and over again if you are exposed.
No I do not think so - there is no reason we cannot get our same genotype again. That doesn't even make sense in a million years. To think I could go out and start shooting Geno 1A and 1B infected blood and not get infected is really a marvelous pipe dream but it's a VIRUS. Some people are so worried they change tooth brushes every single day in fear.
I just do not believe that anybody who's gotten to SVR has any reason to think they are less likely to catch it than anybody else. Which is probably how I ended up with already two kinds of A in a way. You can be infected over and over and over again if you are exposed.
I have never seen any evidence that we have any immunity as a result of getting to SVR. I would ne interested to see the information that is the basis for that statement. I do not require translation into "layman's terms" as I have been reading and comprehending English successfully for some time now.
"I did start a search but have not had the opportunity to translate any of the language into human english (laymen's terms)."
Holy Mother Superiority Batman! How are we mere mortals to plod on if ever left to our own wits and devices?
"Plus interferon leaves the patient with long-term hyperactivated immunity, which no other drug can provide."
Sounds like you view an artificially over-revved autoimune system as a positive? I'm not much for chicks with hairy armpits, but for most other things - I'll take the human body the way Darwin intended it, thank you very much..... OK, I'll concede that silicone and botox have their places too.....
Holy Mother Superiority Batman! How are we mere mortals to plod on if ever left to our own wits and devices?
"Plus interferon leaves the patient with long-term hyperactivated immunity, which no other drug can provide."
Sounds like you view an artificially over-revved autoimune system as a positive? I'm not much for chicks with hairy armpits, but for most other things - I'll take the human body the way Darwin intended it, thank you very much..... OK, I'll concede that silicone and botox have their places too.....
I was also under the impression that tx will in no way be able to give you immunity to any genotype. I thought that the virus keeps mutating, so one would never able to get the exact same cocktail again, thus making it impossible to obtain immunity.
I do have a life beyond the forum and now that I feel better, I'm busy! I do the forum in my rest periods. The studies are not the hepatologist studies most of us are normally exposed to, they're more virology & biochem. Sorry if I was insulting. Let me get you started with one:
http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/reprint/82/20/10017.pdf Warning, it's a very slow slog.
This one is readable:
http://www.roche.com/pages/facets/10/pegasyse.htm
I trust my doc. I'm not afraid of ever contracting 1b again because interferon has set up my system to stop it (don't know how I'd get exposed to it anyway). There are probably even subsets to the subsets of the genos. After looking up the interferon immunity thing, though, I am not looking forward to getting all the colds and flus that my former high interferon levels made me immune to. Without the hep c goosing my interferon levels, I may catch every baby cold and snotty nose. The post TX immunity looks very specific to hep c and is related to changes in the immune system, not continuing high interferon levels.
Why do they know all this pertinant stuff and not have a way to communicate it to us? It's a pity.
http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/reprint/82/20/10017.pdf Warning, it's a very slow slog.
This one is readable:
http://www.roche.com/pages/facets/10/pegasyse.htm
I trust my doc. I'm not afraid of ever contracting 1b again because interferon has set up my system to stop it (don't know how I'd get exposed to it anyway). There are probably even subsets to the subsets of the genos. After looking up the interferon immunity thing, though, I am not looking forward to getting all the colds and flus that my former high interferon levels made me immune to. Without the hep c goosing my interferon levels, I may catch every baby cold and snotty nose. The post TX immunity looks very specific to hep c and is related to changes in the immune system, not continuing high interferon levels.
Why do they know all this pertinant stuff and not have a way to communicate it to us? It's a pity.
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