Hep C & Rheumatoid Arthristis Posted: 03-30-05 12:27pm
I was diagnosed with rheumatoid arthritis
a few months ago. Symptoms came out of no
where and worsened over the months until I
finally went to the doctor.
My rheumatologist ran tests to determine
what medications I could take and that's
when we discovered hep c. He did a 2nd
test because sometimes people with ra will
have a false positive to hep c and people
with hep c can be misdiagnosed with ra.
All of my tests show both ra and hep c.
My doctor told me that in recent years
they have been seeing more people with
autoimmune deseases (ra is one of them)
who also have hep c.
Does anyone out there have rheumatoid
arthritis and hep c? Does anyone know
anything about the connection?
My guess, from what i've read, is that the
immune system is fighting the hep c and
gets over zealous and attacks its own
body.
Please let me know if you have any
information on these issues.
