Humbly requesting help

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Tin Man said:
Dangnabbit, hman! Well, they can cure that, now. Are you well enough to take the cure?
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I don’t know. My good friend, who is also diabetic, got hep C and took the treatment. He said they gave him chemo and he was deathly sick for about a year. With all the crazy ass stuff I got going on, not to mention now I’m waiting results of a prostate biopsy. I don’t know how much more I can take. I need to accept my job back so I can finish paying off my house and home equity line of credit before I die. 🤷🏻‍♂️
 
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hmanvolfan said:
I don’t know. My good friend, who is also diabetic, got hep C and took the treatment. He said they gave him chemo and he was deathly sick for about a year. With all the crazy ass stuff I got going on, not to mention now I’m waiting results of a prostate biopsy. I don’t know how much more I can take. I need to accept my job back so I can finish paying off my house and home equity line of credit before I die. 🤷🏻‍♂️
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diabetes sucks -- all these darn donations and stuff and still no cure -- money has gotta be going into pockets of crooked researchers
 
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hmanvolfan said:
I don’t know. My good friend, who is also diabetic, got hep C and took the treatment. He said they gave him chemo and he was deathly sick for about a year. With all the crazy ass stuff I got going on, not to mention now I’m waiting results of a prostate biopsy. I don’t know how much more I can take. I need to accept my job back so I can finish paying off my house and home equity line of credit before I die. 🤷🏻‍♂️
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Hep C is manageable, my brother was diagnosed with it and lived with it for many years. Let’s take this one step at a time, okay?

Step 1. Let’s see how the biopsy comes out first. You are strong and have a great support group surrounding you. Then we will move on to the next steps, okay? Please?
 
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hmanvolfan said:
I don’t know. My good friend, who is also diabetic, got hep C and took the treatment. He said they gave him chemo and he was deathly sick for about a year. With all the crazy ass stuff I got going on, not to mention now I’m waiting results of a prostate biopsy. I don’t know how much more I can take. I need to accept my job back so I can finish paying off my house and home equity line of credit before I die. 🤷🏻‍♂️
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**** that just keep paying your mortgage. Liver problems suck but not fixable. Good Luck, 🍀 Hunter!
 
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Orangeredblooded said:
Hep C is manageable, my brother was diagnosed with it and lived with it for many years. Let’s take this one step at a time, okay?

Step 1. Let’s see how the biopsy comes out first. You are strong and have a great support group surrounding you. Then we will move on to the next steps, okay? Please?
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That’s what I try to do, stay positive and move ahead one day at a time. But sometimes lately it feels like I’m caught in an avalanche.
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508mikey said:
How does one get it ? I just relooked at my chart I was nonreactive last year -- says I need a Hep b vaccine though
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It’s blood borne usually , sex, sharing personal items
do you have diabetes? If I’m not mistaken fatty liver can mimick hep c or be underlying cause. It’s been 15 years since we had to deal with it. I could be off on last statement.
 
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hmanvolfan said:
At the eye doctor, fluctuating between being excited about going back to work and nervous if I can physically do it. Trying to stay positive, thanks for asking! 😃
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Stay positive. You've got time to sort it out. When you're ready to do something about the hepC, they've got less debilitating, more affordable treatments, now. A skydiver I knew did the interferon thing in the early 2000s. Kicked his adze. Within the past five years, a coworker took a series of pills over 11 weeks. No side effects and came out clean - no virus.
 
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Tin Man said:
Stay positive. You've got time to sort it out. When you're ready to do something about the hepC, they've got less debilitating, more affordable treatments, now. A skydiver I knew did the interferon thing in the early 2000s. Kicked his adze. within the past five years, a coworker took a series of pills over 11 weeks. No side effects and came out clean - no virus.
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That sounds encouraging!
 
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hmanvolfan said:
That sounds encouraging!
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Hman, do you hav any signs of liver disease (active Hep C infection), or did it just show up on blood work (testing positive, but liver labs are normal)? —and feel free to tell me to MYOB! ✌🏻

You can test positive for a long time and be perfectly fine before the virus actually starts doing damage.
 
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VolNExile said:
Hman, do you hav any signs of liver disease (active Hep C infection), or did it just show up on blood work (testing positive, but liver labs are normal)? —and feel free to tell me to MYOB! ✌🏻

You can test positive for a long time and be perfectly fine before the virus actually starts doing damage.
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Never have had any symptoms, get labs every three weeks when I get immunotherapy infusions but I guess they don’t check for hep C then. When I went a week ago to address my diabetes glucose levels going back up and they took a lab to check for everything and they discovered it.
 
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hmanvolfan said:
Never have had any symptoms, get labs every three weeks when I get immunotherapy infusions but I guess they don’t check for hep C then. When I went a week ago to address my diabetes glucose levels going back up and they took a lab to check for everything and they discovered it.
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Wow, I would have thought that they’d screen for Hep C when they decided to try immunotherapy, but I don’t know the protocol on that. Did you ever have a blood transfusion back when you were going through your original cancer?

But that’s good then, just caught on routine labs, as it seems that you don’t have any active liver disease going on!
 
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hmanvolfan said:
Never have had any symptoms, get labs every three weeks when I get immunotherapy infusions but I guess they don’t check for hep C then. When I went a week ago to address my diabetes glucose levels going back up and they took a lab to check for everything and they discovered it.
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how high was the glucose ? do you ever check it at home ?
 
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hmanvolfan said:
Originally when discovered was 275. Steadily went down to a low of 130 after starting Metformin but then started going back up to its current level of 220.
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mine too - I have my doubts about this metformin stuff after reading more about it - what is the Dr doing about it this time ?
 
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For a lot of Type II diabetics, the oral meds (pills) only get you so far, and then you have to add insulin. Type II diabetes, which typically develops later in life as teens or adults, and is associated with being overweight and with metabolic diseases, happens when the insulin-secreting cells in the pancreas “poop out” and don’t produce enough natural insulin to control blood glucose levels. Sometimes DM II can be controlled or even reversed by major (major, major) diet and exercise changes, but sometimes it just needs life-long medications.

For Type I diabetics, including those with juvenile-onset diabetes, later-developing autoimmune diabetes, steroid-induced diabetes, and those who had their pancreas removed, or their pancreas stopped producing insulin, the oral meds would never have worked, because the Islets of Langerhans in their pancreases don’t produce insulin at all, or because their pancreases have been removed (pancreatic cancer; chronic pancreatitis), so they’ve been on insulin injections from the get-go. This often happens with those who had liver problems, as the pancreas is sort of a next-door neighbor and can be damaged downstream from problems with the liver.

All this is a big reason why treatments that might work for one person with diabetes might not do diddly-squat for another.

Anyway, hope you guys can find treatments that work for you and that also work with you.
 
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VolNExile said:
For a lot of Type II diabetics, the oral meds (pills) only get you so far, and then you have to add insulin. Type II diabetes, which typically develops later in life as teens or adults, and is associated with being overweight and with metabolic diseases, happens when the insulin-secreting cells in the pancreas “poop out” and don’t produce enough natural insulin to control blood glucose levels. Sometimes DM II can be controlled or even reversed by major (major, major) diet and exercise changes, but sometimes it just needs life-long medications.

For Type I diabetics, including those with juvenile-onset diabetes, later-developing autoimmune diabetes, steroid-induced diabetes, and those who had their pancreas removed, or their pancreas stopped producing insulin, the oral meds would never have worked, because the Islets of Langerhans in their pancreases don’t produce insulin at all, or because their pancreases have been removed (pancreatic cancer; chronic pancreatitis), so they’ve been on insulin injections from the get-go. This often happens with those who had liver problems, as the pancreas is sort of a next-door neighbor and can be damaged downstream from problems with the liver.

All this is a big reason why treatments that might work for one person with diabetes might not do diddly-squat for another.

Anyway, hope you guys can find treatments that work for you and that also work with you.
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I think H is type 2 - I am also
 
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508mikey said:
I think H is type 2 - I am also
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Anyone who at least started on oral meds like metformin is type 2. Unless they had a really bad doctor. (Oral meds don't work for type 1.) But for some people, the oral meds just don't get it, and they need insulin in addition.

We all joke about Wilford Brimley and "diabeetus", but it's a terrible disease, contributing to a lot of illness and death.
 
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