I am 49 years old, i've had hepatitis c
since 1999,i've had treatments but 1 year
after the treatments my ast and alt's
have gone down but not alot its been more
than a year i've been having joint pain
with swelling of my hands and feet, my drs
have given blood test, x rays,they find
nothing its not arthritis, they say but no
one knows what it is, now I am being sent
to a mental health clinic, my dr says I am
depressed, who wouldn't be when the pain
at times is so bad I can hardly walk and
no one seems to know why? Is there anyone
else who has the same problem ?
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Edwina
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 08 Feb 2006 Posts: 2 Location: USA
Reply to Body Pains Posted: 02-08-06 13:35pm
Harrietviva6,
it's been a long time since you asked your
question, but I just now joined this
forum. For years before I knew I had hep
c, I went to doctors and each time, they
told me I was depressed and they wrote me
a prescription for antidepressants.
After trying it once, I knew that was not
the problem. I was sick and tired of
being sick and tired. And, doctors not
believing that anything was wrong.
Decades passed and finally, I quit going
to doctors and tried things on my own.
Can't say that I had much success.
Joint pain . . . It's real. Very
real. It is not in your head.
Many of the symptoms, I am sorry to say,
are of the type that doctors will think
you are depressed, a chronic complainer,
or a hypochondriac.
I've had hep c for 30 years, so there
isn't much medication that I can still
take, but when my joints start screaming,
I take whatever analgesic I have in the
house. It helps.
Many of the symptoms I have did not start
until 15 years ago, so don't be surprised
when new problems start to crop up. When
this happens, you'll start thinking it's
all in your head again. It's not. It's
in your body.
