The Amazing History of Hep C

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The medical community has made incredible strides in Hep C treatment in the last 25 years. It is now recommended for adults aged 18 and up to be screened for Hep C since it is now so readily treatable. Consider talking to your doctor about it!
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@lilykep 10 месяцев назад

My mom was diagnosed with Hep C after an accidental needle stick one year after she got her nursing degree. Thanks to the medication she received a few years ago she is now 100% Hep C free

@runestring 10 месяцев назад

Same with my aunt. She was in a dangerous clinical trial years ago that killed everyone but her. She survived. It worked. Been in remission for 10 years now.

@natoshafreeman2749 10 месяцев назад

Wow that is wonderful!!!

@raerohan4241 10 месяцев назад

@@runestring Source? Drugs don't get tested in humans until after several rounds of animal testing, so something so deadly would never make it to human trials in the first place. Unless they actually died from their illness but you're pointing at the trial as the cause???

@runestring 10 месяцев назад

@@raerohan4241 And what is alright in animals is not always okay in humans and vice versa. Sometimes clinical trials go wrong and there are several that have. When cancer patients try clinical trials, sometimes they DO end up dying faster than if the disease had just naturally progressed. I'm sorry I don't have all the documentation and names of the trial my aunt was in two decades or more ago but nonetheless she was the sole survivor.

@brookiki 9 месяцев назад

@@raerohan4241I’m also wondering how a trial participant would even get that information. My dad was in a trial for a melanoma vaccine years ago and he never even knew the outcome of the study or met other participants, much less what happened to them. Medical confidentiality still applies in trials. Even informing a participant that all the other patients in the study died could potentially cause a lot of trouble. It’s possible that this happened in a place with much more lax rules regarding human testing and medical confidentiality, but giving a group of patients a drug that hasn’t been proven safe for human use and then revealing the outcome to the last member standing really isn’t something that would happen in most developed places.

@davidshi451 10 месяцев назад

I've been binging John Green's TB facts, so this was the perfect chaser :D

@NessaOfDorthonion 10 месяцев назад

I was just thinking about those as I watched this

@retina2407 10 месяцев назад

Medicine is just fighting these silent wars in multiple battle fronts - not just cancer (although that is important too ofc). Ithink people forget all these achievements we have made in less than one average human lifespan. It's so awesome.

@MrOoglebog 10 месяцев назад

Not to mention there's always new battles starting. Novel microbes, antibiotic resistance genes, etc.

@harmonicaveronica 10 месяцев назад

We only developed effective treatments for tuberculosis less than 100 years ago. It is a disease that has been with us as humans for a very long time. My own grandfather was in a sanitarium for 3 years and when he came out of it, he had one working lung! And now we've done such a good job of treating it that it's basically non-existent in wealthy countries. The barrier to mostly stamping out tuberculosis worldwide is no longer science, but economics

@SquishySeaBird 10 месяцев назад

My little sister was born in 2011 and was in and out of hospitals from her hep C the first 5 years of her life, until she finally qualified for this new treatment. She has not been to a hospital since :)

@mkccv 2 месяца назад

How’d she get it?

@ccondelli 10 месяцев назад

My dad had hep C in 2001, before the newer meds that cure 95% of people were created. I was only 6, and my dad was my best friend, I was devastated, we thought he could die. I remember my mom telling me he's very sick and being very scared. But luckily, he was among the 50% that the treatments back then cured. The side effects were brutal and he had to give himself daily injections, but honestly it's worth it because he's so healthy now and I'm such a daddy's girl, I love him so much! I hope to have many more years with him. Kind of sucks they didn't have the interferon+riboflavin treatment back then though, it would've made that part of my childhood much less scary.

@ben_anton 10 месяцев назад

My dad just got his viral load test back! And he is officially at 0 for the first time in 40 YEARS!!! Thank you so much for making this video Doc Schmidt, the stigma around Hep C is still very real.

@carsonkahla9162 10 месяцев назад

“HEPITITIS C YA LATER!!!” - Kent Murphy

@standardnerd9840 10 месяцев назад

You were meant to be a Dr! It shows. It makes me feel great when I see someone passionate about their chosen career or path in life in general. It's so important and rewarding to love what you're doing and it'll make you fantastic in your field and happier in life.

@hadleytorres8171 10 месяцев назад

I got cured of my hepatitis c 3 years ago. I'm so greatful for my doctor and those who pioneered the way. I held off for a long time out of fear of what interferon does to people, with lower success rates.

@hadleytorres8171 Месяц назад

@@user-lq9ky1lc2o you don't have to take interferon anymore. There are several drugs that cure the hep c without many side effects at all, if any really. Don't be scared. I felt 100% fine every day aside from the last couple days of treatment I got a bad headache. But it's well worth the risk. I feel so much better every day compared to how I felt back then.

@user-lq9ky1lc2o Месяц назад

@@hadleytorres8171 🤍🤍🤍Thx so much 😞😞

@margaretf667 10 месяцев назад

When I hear hep-c, as an Irish person all i can think of is the blood transfusion scandal that infected pregnant women and hemophiliacs.

@clotho98 10 месяцев назад

So thankful for all the doctors and researchers who took us from what had been considered a death sentence to a cure. I wish it had come in time for all the friends I lost to this awful disease, but I'm thankful that there is now help for those with HepC.

@carl8210 10 месяцев назад

General practitioners just got approved to treat Hep C in Ohio and our IM residency clinic is curing dozens of patients! We mostly use Mavyret

@user-sm7jp4km4d 10 месяцев назад

I worked in a hepatitis c research lab in the late 00's. It was wild when the direct antiviral clinical results came out.

@ragerequiem6323 10 месяцев назад

I had an Uncle who had Hep C and lost most of his liver function due to it, he had other health concerns by the time treatment caught up and some fast acting cancers got him recently, but the treatments went from misery to tolerable to almost nothing for the hep C for him, and that was huge for the quality of his life

@UnicornsPoopRainbows 10 месяцев назад

My mom and dad were diagnosed with Hep C, no idea if it was from a blood transfusion from 82 for my mom or drug use from my dad. We grew up being extra careful with their blood and I remember my mom having to inject herself when I was around 10-13 so she was either part of a trial or got the meds as soon as they were approved. She went into complete Hep C remission. My dad never showed signs of it. My sister and I were discouraged from donating blood. I got tested for a job after college and I don’t have Hep C even though I was born after my mom probably got it. It’s pretty cool what we can do with science

@lavdjuric8347 10 месяцев назад

Love your other shorts, but honestly, this kind of content is amazing! Hope you keep making videos like these 🤘

@Doc_Schmidt 10 месяцев назад

Will do! I’ve got 2 in the pipeline as we speak- thanks for the support!

@TwinnedBanana 10 месяцев назад

Wow, this is pretty interesting! I am thankful for the awesome doctors, nurses, and scientists who have made discoveries to help prolong our lifespans and make our lives more comfortable!

@nicolehegarty4749 10 месяцев назад

My dad had Hep C my whole life. I constantly worried about him dying and so did my mom and everyone else in our family. I am so thankful for the new medicine that cured him. Thank you all health care workers doctors nurses surgeons researchers etc. You saved my dad. I am forever grateful. ♥️

@annikala 10 месяцев назад

Would love to see more videos like this highlighting the awesome achievements in medicine

@sabrecellist 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for the PSA, doc!

@inferno8070 10 месяцев назад

Dang that’s really interesting

@justinstone8602 10 месяцев назад

10/10 video

@katherineg9396 10 месяцев назад

I graduated from nursing school in 1979 and I was taught non-A non-B hepatitis. What letter are we up to now?

@TheSliderAlex 10 месяцев назад

E, currently, discovered in pig farm workers

@katherineg9396 10 месяцев назад

Thanks.

@alona270 10 месяцев назад

Th is shows the importance of a correct diagnosis

@AR-md1zq 10 месяцев назад

Yes the modern treatment is one of the most successful treatments that exist in medicine. I remember how amazing it was when the research first came out about it

@chrisjohnson9542 8 месяцев назад

I was very blessed to get the new treatment 7 years ago. I had a bad strain and high viral load. Been gone for a long time now. Praise God!

@degleon2965 10 месяцев назад

I'm so proud of humanity for it's rapid medical advancements.

@blessedfamily5371 8 месяцев назад

Our GOD is s merciful and has blessed our minds, hands, and bodies

@vesislavaofficial 10 месяцев назад

We sometimes tent to forget how awesome modern medicine is

@beccagrantham5978 10 месяцев назад

I have Hep C (I'm a former IV drug user) and i just started the medication to cure it. It's super expensive if you have to pay out of pocket (like $72,000 for a three month course of treatment) but if you have insurance or get a coupon from the manufacturer, it's not expensive at all. I have insurance through the market place and it's only $5 per month. I'm almost done with the first month of treatment, they say headaches and nausea are common side effects but i haven't really had either, granted i take the pill before bed. Hopefully in two months I'll be free of the virus!

@FinancialfitDiva 10 месяцев назад

I remember someone that had hep c maybe 20 years ago...I still remember that it was essentially a death sentence. They tried to take the treatment at the time and they almost tried to unalive themselves....It's wonderful that modern medicine has been able to change the outcome in my lifetime....now if we can cure all forms of cancer then we really have something to celebrate

@susaninsur 10 месяцев назад

Thank you so much for sharing this Excellent information 😀 👏 😊

@HmmmmmLemmeThinkNo 10 месяцев назад

Holy shit this is incredible!!

@Polopony20. 10 месяцев назад

My dad was one of the first people to get the DAA treatment through clinical trials! It was AMAZING! I believe he tested negative in like... 6 months? And his liver started to recover by a year after starting treatment. Actually this year his doctor said his liver is back to normal for his age! I remember growing up with the rule of "do not touch anything with blood, you can not touch dad if he is bleeding" so it really stuck with me the day he got a cut while fixing the lawnmower after the treatment and trying to help him from afar and him saying his blood was safe now :) Although it did teach me to be very careful around blood!

@zananasanna 10 месяцев назад

I was so excited the day Mavyret hit the market, genotype 3, retreatment of genotype 1, and low cost! I totally nerded out on social media. No one but the ID and GI providers nerded out with me. You too are a nerd.

@whyamimr 10 месяцев назад

As a researcher, I understand why this timeline is amazing. As a daughter, I'm still upset my Dad died in 2013 from hep C- those drugs were expensive when they first came out, and it's just not the case that everyone gets on the transplant list before their disease kills them- livers can fail quietly, then all at once.

@tomd5678 10 месяцев назад

Let's have a shoutout to the folks who devote a huge amount of their lives to becoming medical professionals

@katieharding4340 10 месяцев назад

My uncle died January 2023 from heptocellular carcinoma caused by hep c. The cancer had spread and he went through several treatments but unfortunately it is an aggressive cancer. We are still asking ourselves why at any point over the last 20 years he never got it treated... would have felt soo much better and lived a long healthy life.

@karinjanotka7531 10 месяцев назад

Amazing hard work done by research scientists & clinical trials….truly miraculous!

@lbmartinet 10 месяцев назад

I had a blood transfusion on day one of my life and it had Hep c unbeknownst to me until I was in my 30’s. Fortunately thru a liver biopsy we learned my body adapted and I was very resilient with no damage. Was cured through a clinical trial in 2019 ❤ a short 49 yrs after contracting the disease and turns out I didn’t need the transfusion

@koguma8823 10 месяцев назад

my grandmother died of hep c in 1995 at age 51... 3 more years and she would've had some sort of treatment (even though they wouldn't be perfect). i never got to meet her but i miss her every day

@Nyan_Kitty 8 месяцев назад

My dad got the fancy new meds a couple years back, and for some reason he actually got the receipt for the price insurance paid for it. It was a truly incomprehensible amount and to this day I don't understand how our crappy insurance paid for basically a house.

@wiwbssjh8233 10 месяцев назад

I’d love a medical history series from you

@tresdj 10 месяцев назад

I wish it could've been around in tge early 2000s, a close friend lost her mum to hep C and her dad to aids.... they had been clean for years but their bodies already took too much damage 💔 if that were today, they BOTH would likely be able to live normal lives ❤ Less than 20 years between that and now!💜💙💜💙

@nichole9677 8 месяцев назад

I was an IV drug user, i was hep c positive at some point. By the time I knew I had it, my body had cleared it. I was tested and it came back positive, then when they checked my viral load it was 0. I am SO grateful I didnt have to take any medication, in rehab I heard the side effects were still pretty harsh for some and that was only a few years ago!

@wdw4187 10 месяцев назад

That’s so cool

@jeiwalker5160 Месяц назад

That’s so interesting! Love these tidbits. Keep them coming!

@Purplepola 10 месяцев назад

My Dad had hepatitis C, and couldn't take interferon because of his other medical conditions. He was starting to develop liver fibrosis, but was lucky enough to be in the earliest cohorts of people to receive the news treatments under compassionate release. Now completely virus free. He said he always thought he would die from cirrhosis, and these meds were like another chance at life for him.

@planyourspoons8978 10 месяцев назад

Love seeing info on Hep C. I was diagnosed with it while pregnant, and it was terrifying. I now don't carry a viral load according to my gastroenterologist. And I made it through without any significant liver damage. We don't know how I got it since I didn't have any of the risk factors for it but I'm glad that I'm past that part of my medical journey because since then I've been collecting other chronic illnesses, starting with autoimmune ones 😅

@Original_Tenshi_Chan 10 месяцев назад

I think the saddest part is that there is now a cure, not just treatment, but the cost is so prohibitively high and not covered by insurance, so the ones who need it the most are screwed

@LindaLouiseFord 10 месяцев назад

I really appreciate what you are doing for us. Please keep going if you can. We are getting ‘smarter’truly .

@lbell1703 9 месяцев назад

It's so easy to forget that even recently we've had some important medical/ scientific breakthroughs

@mewsyra775 10 месяцев назад

I couldn’t imagine having to take interferons regularly. Back in 07 I had to take Avonex, an interferon used to treat multiple sclerosis. Within a few hours of the injection, you feel like you have the worst flu of your life. Lasts a few days too. I did that for almost 3 months and gave up. It was terrible!!

@somethingorother7440 10 месяцев назад

Me and my mother were born with Hep C. I watched her go through hell multiple times trying out different cures as I was growing up. When I was 21 I was prescribed a box of pills, took one a day, and 6 weeks later I was cured like it was nothing.

@Wynngrem 10 месяцев назад

I was diagnosed with hep c abt 20 yrs ago. I haven't taken meds for it. My body was able to clear the infection itself (it happens in approx 30% of ppl) but I get my blood chked every yr to make sure I don't have a viral load. I'm glad if I ever do need treatment that there are medications now better than interferon.

@heatherthomas1659 10 месяцев назад

You should make more videos like this these are great ❤

@cjpeterson2530 10 месяцев назад

I don’t typically celebrate pharmaceuticals but I have to admit, this one was a home run. I have a friends end who struggles with Hep C for years before getting this treatment early in its availability. He was successfully treated and is living his best life right now.

@jrlanglois 10 месяцев назад

I love the history behind it all. Super fascinating stuff.

@jessicaroseelizabethp.7911 10 месяцев назад

Yes, I had a family member with hepatitis C that had been diagnosed and treated before too much liver damage happened!!

@brendaburgner-williams8515 10 месяцев назад

My uncle had hep C. He contracted hep C back in Vietnam. It was dormant up until the 80's.

@Loveely15 10 месяцев назад

My dad died in 2010 waiting for the medications to be approved. One of the biggest reasons I’m going into medicine- to hopefully help bring life saving drugs like this to the market sooner and to honor his memory.

@palindromecornell707 10 месяцев назад

Good luck to you. I'm certain you will succeed and make your father's memory proud. Blessings 😊

@alissan69 9 месяцев назад

I just know that he is proud of you rock on 🤘🏼❤

@Andria101988 10 месяцев назад

My Dad passed away from cancer that developed from hep C, if he had gotten this medicine he might not have developed it and would be here today

@andrewkent650 10 месяцев назад

I've been through hep C treatment on one of the new medications, and the only side effect was lethargy. Contrast that with the old "combo therapy" of interferon and ribavirin that made me so sick I just wanted to die and stopped treatment, it made me so scared to get treatment that I nearly didn't do it. I'm glad I did it now.

@LBCB94025 10 месяцев назад

i had no clue it was curable until i went to the UK and met some people who told me they were "cured" and i was like "oh sure, the Incurable disease??" and its now Totally something you can survive!!?? (that was in fall 2012*) crazy what free healthcare does for people compared to here!! 🧐🤔🤦🏼🤷🏼🙄😒😞

@barbarakirsch2538 10 месяцев назад

I got hep c frim blood transfusions in 1985. I am now cited.

@barbarakirsch2538 10 месяцев назад

Cured

@okn22921 10 месяцев назад

Truly amazing.

@emka6475 10 месяцев назад

I know someone who had "non A non B" hepatitis. He had reduced function due to the sickness for years before he recovered. Even now he can't eat beef, coconut oil, palm oil, and other foods due to decreased liver function. He says it's like poison to his body.

@dianegoss7181 10 месяцев назад

Yep. Harvoni graduate 2015!

@m136dalie 10 месяцев назад

Similarly impressive is how HIV turned from a death sentence to a disease with near-normal life expectancy. Or how we managed to eradicate smallpox through vaccination (still humanity's greatest achievement in my opinion).

@AllTheButtons87 10 месяцев назад

Wow! I hadn't realized how recent this all went down with hep C.

@deatherbradley 10 месяцев назад

I had hep c. Got it cured. Mh body is doing so much better.

@itsthefatalinawinemixer 10 месяцев назад

My dad passed away at the age of 54 in September of 2003. I wish he could have hung on longer to benefit from the new medications 😢

@puo2123 10 месяцев назад

One of the least impressing ones is bile acid diarrhea. 1985 it was already know that it is underdiagnosed and yet not much has changed.

@h2amster328 10 месяцев назад

don’t you have notes to finish?

@Doc_Schmidt 10 месяцев назад

Nope, finished em all!

@damegataco 10 месяцев назад

I was lucky enough to recover from hep C without even knowing I caught it... Not even really sure how I got it in the first place, but I have an idea when it might've happened

@GeofDumas 9 месяцев назад

What did they learn that allowed them go designate C as a third type worth a letter rather than giving it a whole phrase that basically meant the third type

@galloping-bison 10 месяцев назад

Nowadays, nephrologists even encourage patients not to reject offers for kidneys from hepatitis C positive donors.

@amandajones661 Месяц назад

Wow!!!! Just wow! I honestly think my neighbor (when I was a child in the 70s) died of this.

@sheafitzgerald2253 10 месяцев назад

Man, imagine if we had a letter that wasn't A OR B... Wow...

@DementedDarkness546 10 месяцев назад

This just goes to show how we're getting exponentially faster with medicine and technology

@lornakelly2044 10 месяцев назад

Proud to have studied these drugs in my PhD ❤

@Leximama1 10 месяцев назад

Holy cow... in my life span HepC was discovered AND now have a way to fix it... that's awesome! Wonder what others....humm...

@jessicaroseelizabethp.7911 10 месяцев назад

1st thing that comes to mind for me is the history of smallpox!

@kyleerosee3 8 месяцев назад

I had it didnt even know was clean almost 8 years took maveryt or whatever and boom im all good thankfully

@Sharonmxg 10 месяцев назад

I think GI may be among the most complex specialties. heck it needs subspecialties!

@zah555 10 месяцев назад

Can you also mention how expensive it is and how insurance does not cover it.

@Doc_Schmidt 10 месяцев назад

Insurance covers it

@ejharkness 10 месяцев назад

Ur welcome

@tyrant-den884 10 месяцев назад

Which one was Retuxin made for, because that thing has been an absolute godsend for my Multiple Sclerosis.

@IamDootsdoot 10 месяцев назад

holy... a 95 percent efficacy rate is WILD!

@lifewithkirsten7670 9 месяцев назад

My MIL had dormant hep c from blood transfusions a long time ago during a fatal accident. She somehow survived even tho the passenger side where she was, was hit. About a year and a half ago the hep c became active. They don't know why it was dormant for so long or how it survived long enough to become active and wasn't traceable at all until it did become active. Sure the medications work 95% of the time. But how many can actually get their insurance coverage to pay for it or even a fraction of it. She has Medicare Medicaid. A lot more gets covered with both than one stand alone. Yet Medicare nor Medicaid covered ANY of the cost. She got lucky because her doctor was able to find a charity that was able to pay the $15,000 for the medication. Medication prices are ridiculous and unaffordable for way too many people who don't have access to charities like that one. Maybe bring down medication prices and we'd see a lot less deaths from many more conditions

@mms16 10 месяцев назад

I was quarantined 4 months from hep A 20 years ago, my cousin wasn't so lucky and passed away from hep B. Anti vaccers have no idea how amazing this is

@sumo-ninja 10 месяцев назад

I have it and I can't afford treatment. it has completely ruined my life.

@OptimusPhillip 10 месяцев назад

Wait, they knew it was hepatitis, and they knew it wasn't Hep A or B, but they didn't think to call it hepatitis C until later?

@planespeaking 10 месяцев назад

Makes you wonder about post viral conditions and really are the post viral.

@dylanpringle4314 8 месяцев назад

My friend passed from this disease

@AnithaS-yj3cq 10 месяцев назад

Liver failure also causes brain degenaration of toxin released by liver

@hansmueller3029 10 месяцев назад

Epclusa from Gilead

@DomenicaTurtle 10 месяцев назад

My uncle battled with addiction in his younger years which later came back after he lost my aunt, hes gone now. He was one of the first in Canada that was in remission? If I remember correctly. ?