They started this morning with nagging cough, sore muscles, and a fever of 99 degrees which is now upward toward 100 degrees. What benefit would there be in going to the doctor? I don't want to take tamiflu or anything because I have food allergies and don't like taking stuff that has a lot of ingredients.

Does your nose run and feet smell? Uh, oh you're built upside down Go see a shrink.

Most people have no symptoms when they are first infected with the hepatitis C virus. if you do develop symptoms, they may include:

Feeling very tired.
Joint pain.
Belly pain.
Itchy skin.
Sore muscles.
Dark urine.
Yellowish eyes and skin (jaundice). Jaundice usually appears only after other symptoms have started to go away.
Most people go on to develop chronic hepatitis C but still do not have symptoms. this makes it common for people to have hepatitis C for 15 years or longer before it is diagnosed.

If you are talking Hep B or Hep C then many folks never even notice the symptoms…they are usually flu like symptoms. this of course is why it can be so dangerous!

Hep a is a tad different, and yes the time people notice symptoms is about 20 days. (headace, sore muscles, rashes etc)

SO ….with ANY of the above you want to see a Dr. right away!

There are usually no symptoms in the begining of hep. many people go yrs w/out noticing, then one day it hits them , they go to the ER and get a blood test then , boom there Hep.c positive.
It makes you tired and weak.
You can get it from tattoos even if everything is sanitized.
The test for hep. c is exspenisve though, free clinics never cover it. last year i got an STD test because i slept with someone that had hep.c , after i slept with him i found out. my bill was $600
for every STD testing known to man. then with insurance it was $125.
But i remember that the hepetitas testing alone was $180
Since then i havent been tested for hep. , only std. I really should though since i got more tattoos