When David Cowley found out he had hepatitis C in 2004, the only treatment available was a daily painful injection with a low chance of success and potentially devastating side-effects such as blindness.
Hepatitis C, which primarily affects the liver, can initially be symptom-free or manifest mild symptoms. For Cowley it was six years later, in 2010, that his illness started taking hold, forcing the then 52-year-old from Cardiff, Wales, to quit his printing business. The fatigue, brain fog and cramps were severe. He didn’t want to take the current treatment so he spent most of his waking time researching new treatments, while simultaneously trying to cope with his symptoms.
