Now I spend treatment for hepatitis C drug Pegasys 180 mcg / week. Treatment lasts for 2 months, made 10 injections. Now in the blood of hepatitis B virus is not detected. 1 You can be judged on this basis, the outcome of treatment? Can we expect a full recovery? 2. Quite difficult to tolerate the side effects of Pegasys, became depressed. After 10 injections the doctor suggests a break in treatment to reduce side effects. If I agree to make this break, is not it happen that during the break, the virus is activated again, and after will have what is called, start all over again. 3. Heard this information, that treatment Pegasys can last 24 or 48 weeks .. Is this true? Does this mean that if the time limit of 23 weeks of treatment, the therapy will not be complete or incomplete?

Respond Tatyana Stepanova, a gastroenterologist, hepatologist from analysis, you have a good prognosis for full recovery. Because of side effects, sometimes have to miss 1 or 2 injections. It has almost no effect on treatment. When the genotype 1b treatment lasts at least 48 weeks, with no 1c can be limited to 24, but not less. Similar question: ... spouses with chronic hepatitis B. It is now curable zeffiksom and injections reaferon 3 mln.ed. The course began in ...