help with a few questions

[sharkie]

I am done with the 12 week harvoni program,I have an appointment with the doctor on thur sept 8 to see if I still have the virus in my system.
After 2 weeks it was clear and couldn't understand how fast it worked in just 14 days of taking harvoni.
I can't help not thinking about it and just worried it might not be gone.
Also my stomach has been making all kinds of noises like when your hungry,I have to turn the radio on and try to drown out the sound when I'm in bed,anyone else have these problems plus my appetite has been anything but normal.
When it starts to get in your head and you can't think of anything else you got to ask questions to others who are going threw the same.
THANK'S

[gnatcatcher]

Hi, sharkie.

You are kept awake by stomach rumbling; I sometimes get awakened by hunger pangs. You are not alone in having an abnormal appetite from Harvoni treatment -- others in the Hep Forums have mentioned that, too.

Your post contains three excellent questions to ask your doctor:
1. How is Harvoni able to work so quickly?
2. How can I be sure the Hep C is gone?
3. Why does my stomach grumble so much / why the abnormal appetite?

Answers from your doctor are better than my speculations, so I'm glad your appointment is nearly here. Please let us all know what the doc says.

Gnatty

[sharkie]

Thanks,tomorrow is the big day I guess,I still have to go another year to find out if it is completely out of my system.But I will ask those questions for sure this time,I've written them down.
Thank's again

[sharkie]

First test after finishing harvoni is still not showing the virius,I completly forgot what I wanted to ask the doctor because I was happy about the results.
But the question that I really wanted to no was how long does it take a liver to heal to 100%,in my case I was hit by a car and had a torn liver in 1958.
Also the reason I am here in these forums,I had a blood transfusion at 10 years old.
THANK'S

[Lynn K]

Depends on how much damage you have more damage will take longer and if you have cirrhosis it is uncertain if the liver will recover at all. But no matter how much damage you have there is no timeline time heals with time.

How long does it take a scar to heal 100% ?

[Rosie13]

 Hey Sharkie! So happy for you on your excellent results.I have a loud stomach too .I think its just the meds stirring things up! As to your question about healing the liver, I'm sure everyone is different.Did you have a biopsy or fibroscan? My friend had a large part of her liver removed 2 yrs.ago & had lots of checkups at M.D.Anderson hospital after the operation.Within a year her Dr. told her her liver had returned to normal size.Pretty impressive bodies we have!  I think you said at 2 wks. you were undetected .Did you have only one test during your 12 weeks?My Dr.  ordered tests every 2 weeks .Seems like alot but she wants to know if we have to appeal for 3 rd month.I am on an 8 week tx.

[sharkie]

Thanks for that info about the liver returning to its normal size.As far as the test go I had one test at 2 weeks and another at 12 wks,I had one fibroscan before I started the harvoni and I'm getting another before I go back to the doctors in a month.
Thanks for that info.

[Mugwump]

My stomach has seemed to normalize after treatment. FINALLY Thank heavens! During treatment it was noisy as hell and at times sounded like a cement mixer. Worse than that when I first started on Harvoni I swear I could have powered a natural gas engine my flew flew valve was going non stop, I was a human woopie cushion to say the least for at least the first two months.

I even managed at times to offend our cats, they would get up and leave the room when the going got really bad. This is them when they were little.



I still have pains in my liver and at times discomfort but I am certain that my liver and entire digestive system is better off than it was prior to treatment.  There is much that we will have to get used to and having better digestive system functions sounds like one that I can live with.

Before treatment I found it hard to stay hydrated was beginning to have some digestive issues because of cirrhosis. I was starting the slide into liver failure but now it seems the only trouble is a little mild discomfort in my upper right quadrant the same as I had years ago before I progressed to full blown F4. 

Now it is time to get active again and make my liver work for a living.

Cheers and only the best as you and everyone heals from this terrible disease. I am sure you will reach SVR and cured.

Eric