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Blood tests

Your VA health care providers will look at your blood test results every 1-2 months while you are on treatment with interferon and ribavirin. They want to be sure that the medicines are not lowering your blood counts to unsafe levels. Blood tests also give your providers an idea of how well your treatments are working.

Following are some things that can be found by blood tests.