After Hep C Treatment Side Effects

The newest hcv drugs have fewer and milder side effects.

After hep c treatment side effects.

In many cases your doctor can adjust your dose and. During treatment you may notice. Fatigue nausea itching skin reactions insomnia weakness severe liver injury if given to someone who already has severe liver disease. See your doctor if you often feel out of breath or if you have a fever and a deep cough that produces thick sputum.

Interferons caused many long term side effects partly because of this long treatment time. 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. Frequency and severity of the expected side effects were not increased. Before 2014 the drugs used to treat chronic hepatitis c virus hcv infection had many side effects some of which were severe.

You don t take your pills as prescribed. Interferon treatment for hepatitis c would typically last 24 48 weeks 6 12 months. 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. You ve had treatment for hep c before and it didn t work.

Like most drugs hepatitis c medications may cause side effects. Shortness of breath also may develop as may airway and lung infections. The most common side effects reported with this drug were fatigue headache asthenia and nausea. Changes in your ability to taste.

Less exposure to the medicines reduces the risk of side. Your liver has some scarring fibrosis. I hurt all over my body and felt worst than before i began the treatment. Cough is a common respiratory side effect of hepatitis c treatment.

To manage a cough. 1 this may occur even if hepatitis b infection resolved years earlier. Also treatment lengths are shorter. 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.