Stories

My hep C came from sharing needles. For ten years, I was that person, but not anymore. I took my medicine and now I am clear of any disease. I’m...

It was right before my 55th birthday and I got diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis. While at the rheumatologist, she did blood work and told me I had hep C. She...

My blood was tainted for 30 years because I was diagnosed with hep C in 1990. I struggled with Interferon and Pegasys injections that didn’t work. Recently, I got Medicaid...

I have end-stage liver disease with low platelets, a swollen spleen, low red and white blood cell counts and portal hypertension. UCLA has done seven procedures to put 40 to...

My phone rang one afternoon. I looked at the caller ID and it showed the number of my doctor's office. Of course, I picked it up. “Hello? Oh! Hello, Dr...

We have come so far in the treatment outcome, length of treatment, and medication tolerance of Hep C. After two failed treatment episodes with Interferon and Ribavarin in 2005 and...

In the 1980s I would have been the last person on this planet to have hepatitis C. I was a momma's boy and did not associate with people who liked...

I donated blood in 1995. The blood bank sent me a letter advising me of my diagnosis. I sought help from a gastroenterologist who performed a liver biopsy, and then...

I was 58 years old when my primary physician said she could not find anywhere if I had been tested for hepatitis C. I told her I didn't need to...

At my final check-up and officially cured. I am so grateful...

I have had hepatitis C since I was 19. I'm now 48 and need a transplant so I can survive. I tried Interferon when I found out in 1993, but...

Denial has got to be one of the strongest emotions there is. I lived in denial for twenty-plus years. No obvious symptoms, no illness, didn’t feel bad, living my life...

I was diagnosed with hep c in November 2021. I felt every emotion possible when I was informed I had this virus. I’m told by my specialist I have cirrhosis...

I found out I had covid-19 and hep C at the same time, I have been in three hospitals, and I have anxiety and depression. I am on hep C...

In 1986 I was 12 years old and had open back surgery. I was diagnosed with scoliosis since about five or six years old. In May of 2021 I was...

Hello All. Just wanted to update everyone on my journey. I am finished with my medicine and my labs are very good, however, I do have some liver damage, but...

Back in 1996, on the recommendation of a gastroenterologist, I went on interferon (IFN) for hep C for stage 0-1. I had no symptoms. I started having very bad labs...

I started with knowing I had Hep c in the year 2009, I didn't believe it so I did nothing, the following year my sister was diagnosed with stage 3...

"You have Chronic Hepatitis C" - words I never thought I'd here. Words that changed my life. My name is Emily Feikls and this is my Hep C story. A...

I have been reading the side effects of Harvoni. Reading it can cause aggressive cancer. Breast or liver. Is this true? On my 4th wk of treatment. This is making...