After Hep C Treatment Side Effects

Less exposure to the medicines reduces the risk of side.
After hep c treatment side effects. The most common side effects reported with this drug were fatigue headache asthenia and nausea. You ve had treatment for hep c before and it didn t work. During treatment you may notice. See your doctor if you often feel out of breath or if you have a fever and a deep cough that produces thick sputum.
Fatigue nausea itching skin reactions insomnia weakness severe liver injury if given to someone who already has severe liver disease. I begged my clinical nurse to test me for hep c and viral load again. Interferons caused many long term side effects partly because of this long treatment time. I hurt all over my body and felt worst than before i began the treatment.
Post treatment side effects shortly after i stopped treatment nausea and fatigue set in and i literally felt the virus was back with a vengeance. When this drug was studied with ribavirin the most common side effects to this combination were consistent with known ribavirin side effects. In many cases your doctor can adjust your dose and. In the era of highly effective daas a new and unanticipated adverse effect of hepatitis c therapy is flare up of liver inflammation in those who have had hepatitis b.
Like most drugs hepatitis c medications may cause side effects. Shortness of breath also may develop as may airway and lung infections. Changes in your ability to taste. Cough is a common respiratory side effect of hepatitis c treatment.
Your liver has some scarring fibrosis. Learn more about the long term effects of the hepatitis c virus on the whole body the long term side effects of treatment and extrahepatic manifestations. Frequency and severity of the expected side effects were not increased. Interferon treatment for hepatitis c would typically last 24 48 weeks 6 12 months.
You don t take your pills as prescribed. To manage a cough. 1 this may occur even if hepatitis b infection resolved years earlier. Also treatment lengths are shorter.