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How To Test If Hepatitis C Is Completely Cured?
Question: My name is XXXX. I have/had Hep C. Since my second round of Interferon 11yrs ago, I have been in remission with all viral count blood test coming up negative for Hep C. My present family doctor said if it's been 11yrs, it's not in remission, it's cured. Is this really true that it is "Cured" rather than in remission? Or is this opinion by my doctor still a controversy in saying that it is Cured.
I meant to send you the question I wrote in the box asking what medications I take. Basically asking you if you can take Abilify and Dexidrine together.
Please read what I wrote in the medication I take area info box.
Thank you for your help in this matter.
I meant to send you the question I wrote in the box asking what medications I take. Basically asking you if you can take Abilify and Dexidrine together.
Please read what I wrote in the medication I take area info box.
Thank you for your help in this matter.
Brief Answer:
Completely cured,specify diagnosis....
Detailed Answer:
Hi XXXXXXX
Thank you for sharing with us your concern.
If all your hep.C tests (negative PCR, positive recombinant immunobolt assay), then, it means, that you have been completely clean your body from the C virus (completely cured).
With regards to Abilify (Aripiprazole) and Dexidrine (Dextroamphetamine), yes, they can be used together depending on the diagnosis. Can you specify the diagnosis your doctor made to you so I can explain it specifically what they can do for that particular condition?
Hope it helped!
Dr.Albana
Completely cured,specify diagnosis....
Detailed Answer:
Hi XXXXXXX
Thank you for sharing with us your concern.
If all your hep.C tests (negative PCR, positive recombinant immunobolt assay), then, it means, that you have been completely clean your body from the C virus (completely cured).
With regards to Abilify (Aripiprazole) and Dexidrine (Dextroamphetamine), yes, they can be used together depending on the diagnosis. Can you specify the diagnosis your doctor made to you so I can explain it specifically what they can do for that particular condition?
Hope it helped!
Dr.Albana
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
Did you get my long, long reply to you yesterday regarding my sister and her mental disorder?
Please respond, thank you, XXXX
Please respond, thank you, XXXX
Brief Answer:
Not received,can resend it...
Detailed Answer:
Hi XXXXXXX
So far, did not receive any long, long reply. I have received only a query which I have already answered back. Anyway, you can resend it. I'll go through it carefully to guide your through the process.
Dr.Albana
Not received,can resend it...
Detailed Answer:
Hi XXXXXXX
So far, did not receive any long, long reply. I have received only a query which I have already answered back. Anyway, you can resend it. I'll go through it carefully to guide your through the process.
Dr.Albana
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
I will try and make it short. My sister has been in a total mental breakdown for the past 1 1/2yrs. She is obsessed about her problems, very depressed, extremely negative, can't decide what to eat, she is 5'4" 1/2 and 100lbs., can't take shower, has excuse for everything and thinks she knows everything about drugs and what they do to her body. Also Extreme Anxeity. Also in a lot of pain from pelvic floor dysfunction, possibly, she also has Lyme disease. So is she bipolar or mental from Lyme disease or other mental disease, brain tumor... We don't know and it's hard to get her to a doctor. She also has ADD which she takes Dexedrine. We want her on antipsychotics but my sister says they decrease dopamine which counter acts the effect of the Dexedrine. That's why I asked if you can take Abilify and Dexedrine together... Thank you for your response. Let me know if you get this email..
Brief Answer:
Various ways of action,can be used together...
Detailed Answer:
Hi back XXXXXXX
Yes, I have just received your e-mail. There is a lot of medical data regarding your sister's health problems.
At this point, I realized that you want to have a specific answer to give to your sister and make her decide to take abilify while she is already taking Dexedrine. Correct me if not right!
Now, first, as she is not thinking sanely, then, she needs immediate medical attention. Further psychological examination is advised to evaluate the severity of her symptoms.
Usually, patients with ADD are also developing psychological changes at some point in their life.
Yes, Abilify can be used together with Dexedrine:
- Abilify is an antipsychotic drug, with main action to restore the balance of nurotransmitters (natural chemicals in the brain). This drug will help your sister in:
- improving concentration
- thinking clearly and positively about herself.
Its main actions are in 2 parts of her brain:
- mesolimbic pathway (where there is an over-activity of dopamine; abilify (aripiprazole) has a partial D2 agonism, thus, will decrease the activity of this mesolimbic pathway, leading to reduced symptoms.
- mesocortical pathway, where there is hypofunction of dopaminic neurotransmission. This drug will enhance the dopaminergic activity leading to positive changes in her mood.
As you may see, there is a long and complicated discussion. Overall, this drug will have different effects on dopamine neurotransmission in different parts of brain. The final result is positive changes in her mood.
- With regards to dexedrine, this drug acts as a stimulant of nervous system, which has also multiple modes of actions. The final result is improvement of ADD symptoms.
As they both have non-contradictory effect on dopaminergic neurotransmission, these 2 drugs can be used together.
Hope it answered to your queries!
All the best to all of you!
Dr.Albana
Various ways of action,can be used together...
Detailed Answer:
Hi back XXXXXXX
Yes, I have just received your e-mail. There is a lot of medical data regarding your sister's health problems.
At this point, I realized that you want to have a specific answer to give to your sister and make her decide to take abilify while she is already taking Dexedrine. Correct me if not right!
Now, first, as she is not thinking sanely, then, she needs immediate medical attention. Further psychological examination is advised to evaluate the severity of her symptoms.
Usually, patients with ADD are also developing psychological changes at some point in their life.
Yes, Abilify can be used together with Dexedrine:
- Abilify is an antipsychotic drug, with main action to restore the balance of nurotransmitters (natural chemicals in the brain). This drug will help your sister in:
- improving concentration
- thinking clearly and positively about herself.
Its main actions are in 2 parts of her brain:
- mesolimbic pathway (where there is an over-activity of dopamine; abilify (aripiprazole) has a partial D2 agonism, thus, will decrease the activity of this mesolimbic pathway, leading to reduced symptoms.
- mesocortical pathway, where there is hypofunction of dopaminic neurotransmission. This drug will enhance the dopaminergic activity leading to positive changes in her mood.
As you may see, there is a long and complicated discussion. Overall, this drug will have different effects on dopamine neurotransmission in different parts of brain. The final result is positive changes in her mood.
- With regards to dexedrine, this drug acts as a stimulant of nervous system, which has also multiple modes of actions. The final result is improvement of ADD symptoms.
As they both have non-contradictory effect on dopaminergic neurotransmission, these 2 drugs can be used together.
Hope it answered to your queries!
All the best to all of you!
Dr.Albana
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
you are better off than me emotionally I am severely out of control depressed you don''t understand its not negativity its despair and hopelssness over this pain and methadone. and every thing in between You are still a real person and I am not. something happened to me and I am not here anymore. The pain destroyed me and my brain and emotions. Something serious went wrong. I fear its the massive infections in teeth affecting everything and my brain and then I can't stand the ice and pain and ice.
Even though you have problems you are still a real reasonable person who talks about boundaries. i have no more boundaries or anything real left to work with something bad happened over time I couldn;t take the reality of the ice and pain and then my hair and no family and then the house. You don't understand the despair and horror of the house and we will not get money from it.
Ed's antibiotics did not work. He still has blood in urine. If you saw the bathrooms in the back you would understand how we are sick. This is bad. No one for Jess.
I have no personality left it is only ice and pain and now bladder infection and ice and pain and despair and anxiety. There is no one here to work with. Everything I was has died and gone.
You and Janean are not getting how serious this is I can't stop I am severely not here any more only despair adn hopelessness and horrid anxiety and no answers you are still a real person and think even though you have serious problems and are suffering you are still able to make sense of things. I can't make sense of things or imagine a future with this pain and ice and despair and horrid infections in my mouth with no answers no answers and no way to get answers or a way out of this pain. It will not stop and pain pills do nothing I am bad bad bad bad bad bad ba shape something big needs to happen I dont; now]
regular life answers are not working here. Please help me please someone help me help me help me. YOu have too many problems. Oh my God Someone has to help me I am in hell of despair and overwhelm. I can't talk sense like you can. I can't imagine planning liek you can because I am seriously in trouble with my emotions and my pain and despair I need to be heavily sedated so I don't care about anything.
I am too far gone Janean and you need to wake up this is a tragedy for me and for you. I can't stop this sufferring I can't stop it will not stop. I have no more reasoning skills left I am broken beyond belief I am so close to breaking apart please please soemone god help me god help me.
YOu and Jess and Janean have lost me I am gone somewhere to the land of sufferring and despair and its lodged in my cells and won't stop.
THIS IS ONE OF THE CRAZY LETTERS MY SISTER WROTE...ANY FURTHER ADVICE?
Thank you for your response, XXXX
Even though you have problems you are still a real reasonable person who talks about boundaries. i have no more boundaries or anything real left to work with something bad happened over time I couldn;t take the reality of the ice and pain and then my hair and no family and then the house. You don't understand the despair and horror of the house and we will not get money from it.
Ed's antibiotics did not work. He still has blood in urine. If you saw the bathrooms in the back you would understand how we are sick. This is bad. No one for Jess.
I have no personality left it is only ice and pain and now bladder infection and ice and pain and despair and anxiety. There is no one here to work with. Everything I was has died and gone.
You and Janean are not getting how serious this is I can't stop I am severely not here any more only despair adn hopelessness and horrid anxiety and no answers you are still a real person and think even though you have serious problems and are suffering you are still able to make sense of things. I can't make sense of things or imagine a future with this pain and ice and despair and horrid infections in my mouth with no answers no answers and no way to get answers or a way out of this pain. It will not stop and pain pills do nothing I am bad bad bad bad bad bad ba shape something big needs to happen I dont; now]
regular life answers are not working here. Please help me please someone help me help me help me. YOu have too many problems. Oh my God Someone has to help me I am in hell of despair and overwhelm. I can't talk sense like you can. I can't imagine planning liek you can because I am seriously in trouble with my emotions and my pain and despair I need to be heavily sedated so I don't care about anything.
I am too far gone Janean and you need to wake up this is a tragedy for me and for you. I can't stop this sufferring I can't stop it will not stop. I have no more reasoning skills left I am broken beyond belief I am so close to breaking apart please please soemone god help me god help me.
YOu and Jess and Janean have lost me I am gone somewhere to the land of sufferring and despair and its lodged in my cells and won't stop.
THIS IS ONE OF THE CRAZY LETTERS MY SISTER WROTE...ANY FURTHER ADVICE?
Thank you for your response, XXXX
Brief Answer:
Psychiatrist advice is needed...
Detailed Answer:
Hi back XXXXXXX
I have gone through the letter that your sister wrote. I did notice that she is very depressed and is hoping faith. At this moment, I highly recommend to get her further evaluated by a psychiatrist and discuss with him/her if your sister can benefit of psycho-therapy.
Although she is having her medications, she needs a more specialized attention. Psychiatrist or/and psycho-therapist can help her.
God bless!
Dr.Albana
Psychiatrist advice is needed...
Detailed Answer:
Hi back XXXXXXX
I have gone through the letter that your sister wrote. I did notice that she is very depressed and is hoping faith. At this moment, I highly recommend to get her further evaluated by a psychiatrist and discuss with him/her if your sister can benefit of psycho-therapy.
Although she is having her medications, she needs a more specialized attention. Psychiatrist or/and psycho-therapist can help her.
God bless!
Dr.Albana
Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
Thank you so very much for your time and attention to this matter.
I do appreciate it Doctor!
Thank you again, XXXX
I do appreciate it Doctor!
Thank you again, XXXX
Brief Answer:
Do not forget to close this discussion....
Detailed Answer:
You're most welcome XXXX
If no more question, kindly close this discussion. You can reopen it anytime you'll have any other query. I'm here to help!
All the best and God bless!
Dr.Albana
Do not forget to close this discussion....
Detailed Answer:
You're most welcome XXXX
If no more question, kindly close this discussion. You can reopen it anytime you'll have any other query. I'm here to help!
All the best and God bless!
Dr.Albana
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Above answer was peer-reviewed by :
Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
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