What proof is there that hepatitis C is for real?

United States
November 8, 2008 9:13am CST
What proof is there that hepatitis C is for real? Besides the blood test...
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shooie
@shooie (4984)
• United States
8 Nov 08
Hepatitis Real or Not? - A disease that is deadly if not taken care of
At this time there is no real proof of Hep C without doing the blood test. Most people that do have it are very tired at times. I know my mom didn't know she had it until she went for test because she was tired all the time. She wasn't one of the lucky ones to have survived it. Rather Hep C is real or not Hepatitis is real. Hepat= liver, itis= inflamation of the liver. So rather it has A,B,C after it or not the disease is real.
shooie
@shooie (4984)
• United States
8 Nov 08
Awesome for your friend. My mom didn't take anything for hers either she found out she had it after the inflamation was dying down but the damage was done. She didn't die from the hepatitis itself but what comes along with it.
SteveSlaton
@SteveSlaton (552)
• United States
9 Nov 08
While I've worked as a toxicologist, I've not been a lab since 1986. I have a growing suspicion that the Hep-C test is for a protein expressed by liver cells in trouble... Possibly due to genetic mutation. Not a cancer but transformed . . . maybe. It may be for a true viral infection but I've not found direct published evidence of a high standard. I'll try again to search the literature one of these weeks.