Why Is the Successful Management of Hepatitis C so Challenging?

Symptoms of hepatitis C are often silent. Here, HealthMaker Stacy Wiegman, PharmD, Sharecare Advisory Board member and licensed pharmacist explains how that has made managing the disease a challenge – and what you can do to help change that.

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The challenge with treatment for hepatitis C today, even though there are very effective treatments, is identifying people. It has no symptoms.

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Until you're pretty far along in the course of the disease. And at that point, it may be impossible to reverse. So because it's

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one of those symptomless diseases, people aren't really worried about it, or rushing in to their doctor to get tested for it. So when

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you're at your annual exam, if your doctor offers you hepatitis C testing and you're in the age group born between 1945 and 1965,