Deciding on treatment and liver biopsy

Living With Hep B Treatment and Monitoring
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Dear @Wadani1,

Thanks for your questions:

  1. The reason your doctor may not be treating you is that your viral load is very low already. The argument is: the antivirals only work suppressing the virus replication and if the virus is already being suppressed by your body then there is no benefit.
  2. It is impossible to know this because there may be no connection between Hep B and these symptoms at all. We have talked about the pain in the right side in other threads (Upper right quadrant pain; Titling feet and pain on the righ shoulder blade; and Deciding when to start treatment). It is worthwhile to investigate other reasons for why you are feeling these symptoms.
  3. This is really up to your personal health situation and country. Your doctor will be in the best position to tell you this.

Hope this helps,
Thomas

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