What are the benefits of treatment?

If you and your doctor decide that you should begin taking medicines for your hepatitis C, the drugs are intended to do 3 things:

• remove (or clear) all the hepatitis C virus from your body
• stop or slow down the damage to your liver
• make you feel better

Clearing the hepatitis C virus from the blood does not happen in all patients. If this does not happen, there are still some ways that treatment can help you.

The treatment can:

• decrease the amount of damage to your liver
• lower the amount of hepatitis C virus in your blood
• improve your overall well-being and quality of life
• lower your alanine aminotransferase (ALT) liver enzyme level

Drug treatments are not right for everyone. Only you and your doctor can decide if a certain treatment is right for you.

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