WHAT ARE THE DIFFERENT CLINICAL INDICATIONS OF HCV?
The most often reported clinical symptoms are: jaundice fatigue abdominal pain loss of appetite intermittent nausea vomiting (CDC) However, often doctors incorrectly assume that hepatitis C is a liver disease and that the only real symptoms of hepatitis C are related to liver disease and liver dysfunction But the virus itself has been found in the nervous system, the lymphatic system, the muscles and the heart where it causes direct inflammation. Many physicians, unfortunately, do not take this other activity and the stress it subjects us to into account. Rather than relying on the latest tests and literature to help form a diagnosis, they often mistakenly assume that hepatitis C is only a liver disease, and that, unless the patient has obvious cirrhosis, the complaints are psychosomatic However, just as HIV often causes death by AIDS-related pneumonia, but HIV is not a lung disease, hepatitis C often causes death through liver failure or liver cancer but it is not a liver disease. Hep
