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Hepatitis C Main Forums => Post Hepatitis C Treatment => Topic started by: Salal on August 28, 2018, 12:45:38 pm
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Where I live (BC, Canada) they make you wait 24 weeks post-treatment before you have your follow-up blood test for HCV to see if you have been cured. As you all know, there is a very high cure rate nowadays, and I anticipate I will get an "undetected" result from the test. But my rheumatologist sent me to be treated for HCV when my autoimmune vasculitis (which he believed to be cryoglobulinemia) came out of arrested mode and I had a couple of episodes of purpura. He thought HCV was likely the underlying cause of the vasculitis and that if the HCV was treated the episodes of purpura would stop. Here I sit, 20 weeks post treatment suffering again from episodes of purpura, which is not fun. Either I am not cured of HCV or it is not the underlying cause of the vasculitis, and at this point I do not know. September 25 is the day I am to take my requisition for an HCV test to the lab. Meantime my rheumatologist is going through the process of getting approval for treatment for the vasculitis itself. And I sit in painful limbo. I sure look forward to having some answers...
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Is it possible to get a liver enzyme test? If your liver enzymes are still normal there is a good chance your remain cured