Hi<\/p>\n
The decision to use treat hep C will always depend on you personal treatment history including the monitoring of your hepatitis C infection.<\/p>\n
This will include your individual risk of liver damage and your previous treatment history.<\/p>\n
Did you doctor say why he wants you to have the hep C treatment?<\/p>\n
If your liver is relatively stable and unaffected then it will be easier to discuss waiting for a couple of years or perhaps longer. Over this time it is hoped that new hepatitis C drugs will be easier to tolerate. Even if they still require using PEG interferon and ribavirin – the drugs you found difficult before -this might only be for a month or two rather than 6-12 months.<\/p>\n
If your liver test results show liver disease progression this will make it more risky to continue to delay treatment.<\/p>\n
Because these options are so different, the discussion really needs to be with the specialist doctors that manage your HIV care and hepatitis C.<\/p>\n
The i-Base guide to HIV and Hepatitis C coinfection includes discussions about these decision. It is waiting to be updated with more recent information about new drugs, some of which have now been approved.<\/p>\n
Please let me know if you have other questions – and good luck with whatever you decide.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
My doc has recommended treatment for my hep C. I am asymtomatic.<\/p>\n
I tried the treatment five years ago and had to stop after 6 wks due to my inability to tolerate it. <\/p>\n
I need info to make the right decision about whether or not to go through horrible side effects vs the benefit for quality of life and length of life with co-infection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-complications-and-coinfections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}