What are the symptoms of hepatitis C infection?

At the beginning of an hepatitis C virus infection, only about 27% of patients exhibit the symptoms of acute (rapid onset) hepatitis. These indication include fatigue, muscular aches, and low-grade fever. Rarely, yellowing of skin and/or eyes also occurs. However, most patients (about 80%) experience minimal or no indication at the onset of hepatitis C virus.
As the hepatitis begain severe, most individuals remain symptomatic (without symptoms). Indeed, mostly people with chronic hepatitis C are diagnosed while undergoing routine blood work for related purpos. Infected individuals may exhibit no indication despite progressive liver inflammation, (Death of liver cells), and fibrosis (scarring). Other many patients may experience chronic fatigue and a diminished sense of well-being as a result of advancing disease. On the other words fatigue has been described in some individuals with relatively mild disease.With the subsequent development of cirrhosis of the liver (more advanced scarring), hepatitis C virus patients can have muscle wasting, generalized weakness. Later symptoms, which are due to the complications of cirrhosis, include fluid retention, which leads to edema (swelling of the lower extremities) internal bleeding (usually from dilated esophageal veins called varices), and mental confusion or sleepiness (due to hepatic). Another complication of hepatitis C virus cirrhosis is cancer of the liver (hepatocellular carcinoma or hepatoma), which can cause abdominal pain, weight loss, and fever

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