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So far three people I either knew or was an aquaintenance of have died of end stage liver disease due to Hep c. I am begining to wonder if I will get my transplant or die first. Hep C is at a greater number then the AIDS epidemic by 4-1. I wonder if the powers that be will ever take Hep C as seriously as AIDS. I have been on the transplant list almost three years and have almost died until I got a TIPS shunt. Quite honestly I am scared one minute and the next I find myself being at peace with the idea of dying. Anybody else have similar feelings?
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Re: Epidemic
Fri, May 16, 2008 - 11:50 AMHi Mike
Hep C is not taken seriously in the UK. The awareness is almost non-existent. I didn't have a clue what hep C was when diagnosed, I'd never seen a poster, never seen any news articles or anything. AIDS, I knew about, everybody it seems knows about AIDS, not many know about hep C...but as you say, more people have hep C then AIDS!
I've been lucky, treatment worked. My only fears are of it returning or of my scarred liver developing cancer.
Three years is a long time to wait for a transplant and you must wonder....None of us really know if we'll die of a hep C related condition or some other disease or get run over by a bus? We all have to die of something..
I really hope you don't have to wait much longer for your transplant Mike. -
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Re: Epidemic
Tue, July 8, 2008 - 4:59 PMA very belated thanks Tracey, still waiting for a liver.
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