To celebrate Pamela Anderson that she is rid of the serious illness after 16 years – kjendis.no

(Dagbladet): The model and actress Pamela Anderson (48) has for years struggled with the severe liver disease hepatitis C, but 16 years after she first was diagnosed, fresh reports herself.

This marked her by posting a picture on Instagram-profile.

– I’m cured! I pray that all people living with hepatitis c qualify for or afford treatment. It will soon be available for more. I know it’s hard to get treatment, but do not lose hope, she writes to his 165,000 followers.

– Presented as a death sentence

Anderson told the first time that she had the disease in 2002, that she had been infected after sharing a tattoo needle with ex-husband and drummer Tommy Lee. He denied it. She started back then with different treatments, but nothing took their toll on the disease until now. In August she revealed to People magazine that she had started on a new cure that should work.

– For 16 years ago it was presented to me as a death sentence. It went really out of my self-esteem. Although I have seemed confident on the outside it has been as if a dark cloud has hung over me, ‘she said then.

Spray Infection

Folkehelseinstituttet reviewing the disease as a viral disease “as in 70-80 percent of those infected can get a chronic course. ” This in turn can lead to increased risk of liver cirrhosis and liver cancer.

The most common method of transmission is through sharing needles, or that the mother transmits the disease to child during pregnancy, but infection through sexual contact has occurred.

It is believed that between 20 000 and 30 000 individuals in Norway have had the disease at some point.