Hi Nicole, a VL of 1.5 million is not particularly high, probably intermediate. A low VL is <800,000 i.u. but this varies. The starting VL does not seem to make a great deal of difference in treatment response. At your age the side effects should be OK but these are variable. Good luck with treatment

Same but with Incivo. First takes and shot tomorrow. Cheers! : handshake

If you can, reach out to family and friends for support. I made the mistake of not doing so right away when I needed them.

I work 4 days from 9-5 as a delivery driver. I work thursday-sunday, so i take my dart Sunday night. By Thursday i am pretty good to go..Except for the irritability that all my co-workers are noticing.

No they arent the same.  But one of the girls on my shift knows about my hcv and that i'm about to start tx so shes going to work with me.  I only work every 3rd weekend so i'm trying to map out how i wanna work this..

Good luck with treatment.  Are your 3 days of work always the same? If they are try to have your Tx start day well away from work days. Most people, myself included, feel Sx the 2 days after the shot. I do my shot Friday night and about 17 hours later on Saturday the Sx start. Sunday I'm usually just reallly tired and by Monday I'm relatively okay again. You definitely don't want to start your 3 days work the day after....lol. If the days of work change you'll have to do a bit of juggling to set it up right.

I'm 28 was diagnosed at 18.  Tried SOC for I think 9 months and my mothers insurance dropped me because I turned 19.  My doctors cant find any viral load labs after i started ..  So any who..    My viral load is 1.5 mil and log pcr is 6.18.  I'm starting as soon as I get my meds and can get into an education class.  I'm excited and scared at the same time.  When I did the tx before I was only 18.  The only things i really remember are being tired my hair thinned and i was super depressed.  Maybe a few times I was nauseous and vomitted.  I was in high school yet then and also worked at a store.    Now I have a 5 year old live on my own and work 36 hours a week but I do twelve hour shifts.  I worry about how it will effect my ability to function at work but I'm just going to try to stay motivated and push through.  I need my health insurance! haha.  But I'm also thinking about going into hiding for however long it takes.  I dont want to tell anyone else about it and I think they'll know i'm sick if they see me on tx.  The people i want to know pretty much all know and are supportive.   I'm ready to get this show on the damn road!    Any advice?    And also does anyone know if my levels are high?  I tried looking it up but the terms doctors use are a little harder for me to understand.   THANKS and i'm super greatful for finding this site I feel like it really motivated me to get tx stop being in denial and accept myself with this virus.  

Oh yea last biopsy I had was about 4 years ago and it showed mild damage and mild inflammation.  I got a bunch of labs drawn bmp cbc lfp ptinr all those things and everything was normal.  My doctor seems to feel its best to not wait for newer tx and start now.

-- Edited by libgirl07 on Saturday 13th of October 2012 02:41:35 PM