Went to the trial center to check in. Been on the Merck combo for 15 days. Since it's a blinded study I didn't know if I've been on placebo or real thing. Trial coordinator is pretty sure it's the real thing since my liver enzymes have dropped by about 50%. They've never been very high anyway, but I che...
I was so excited when I realized it was Wednesday and Law & Order SVU is on! Waited until about 9:30 to go watch it (so I could fast forward through commercials) ... get into the living room, can't for the life of me figure out why the dish won't turn on... got off the couch to do it manually, still nothin...
I am a 46 year old man with who has been HIV+ for several years, last year I also contracted Hep C. I was in pain as if i had pneumonia which is what alerted the hospital. Although I was advised that i must have treatment in order to have any chance of clearing the infection. Having had fiends who were i...
I mean i even heard my gastro say when the virus is gone its gone ...... biopsy every couple months or years after SVR should without any shadow of a doubt confirm regeneration of GOOD healthy stuff or show resdiual damage that never healed right ??? and follow up blood draws will show viral l...
The good news is that Gilead is talking about not pricing Ledipasvir as high as Sovaldi: "Another Gilead executive, Paul Carter, suggested the company may not price ledipasvir as high as Sovaldi, saying the "majority of value" in its combination with Sovaldi would be in Sovaldi....
greetings, i just uploaded one of my favorite framed chalk pastel still life i did at 4 mo. eot. excersise & art are 2 of my passions in life. it wasn't until 3 mo eot i was able to start producing work of substance & framing pieces!!!! i began taking art classes 3mo prior to tx, stopped all art duri...
When you think of fatty liver disease you may think of someone sitting on the couch watching tv and eating bon bons all day. Unfortunately, HepC is linked to fatty liver disease, and about 40% of hepc sufferers have fatty liver disease. A small study showed that eating healthy and exercising can not...
Hi everyone.... my name is Kim and I've been living with Hep C since I was 12 years old, I'm 25 now. I recently had some bloodwork done and have results from my AST and ALT and are not sure what they mean. Two years ago in 2012 my AST was 16 IU/L.. My bloodwork from yesterday shows my AST as 28 IU/L. My ALT in 2012...
I ran the Peachtree Road Race 10K on July 4th, as I do almost every year. It occurred to me that I have never run this or any other race virus free, at least not since high school. The irony is that I was considerably faster 2 years ago, prior to tx and with undiagnosed cirrhosis. I'll take being slow and rid...
I took my 1st Sov/Riba this AM and Riba night dose an hour ago. I have no idea if I'm going to have Sx's related to Sov/Riba in part because I'm still having Sx's from starting new HIV Rx 7-18-14 but mostly because I was in so much pain today from not taking enough Lactulose. I've been having constipation is...
We just got Joel's 8 week lab results and it says: HCV RNA, QUANTITATIVE REAL TIME PCR: <15 Not Detected. I'm assuming this is good news. So we are happy. Right? Sandy
I'm an old-timer with this dragon, picking it up in a blood transfusion from the olden days....been hibernating for a decade waiting for effective treatments, and now waiting to become rich enough to take the water. ~sigh~anyway, I've kept up a dedicated practice in art and music (when I'm not nap...
I have cried for 40 minutes.. lol HCV RNA PCR QUANT STANDARD <43.0 iu ML mY RANGE <15.0 HCV RNA PCR QUANT LOG STANDARD RANGE <1.63 LOG IU/ML MY RANGE <1.18 IS THIS 1.18 OK? DO I NEED TO WORRY? OH GOD. I AM SO OVERCOME WITH EMOTIONS.. ALL OVER THE MAP.. LOL
Finally got my results back from my 12 week posttreatment bloods. SVR 12!!!! on the Sovaldi/Olysio only x12 wks protocol. Thank you, God. Thank you all for your support through treatment and the nerve wracking waiting game after.
I'm trying to learn some about reading labs by searching this forum but it's very confusing with my pickled brain after 40+ yrs alcoholic/drugs or from hepatic encephalopathy confusion, or stress or all of the above. I read through Understanding Lab test: Entire Lesson. and am getting more famili...
Metabolomic studies are a relatively new type of clinical analysis that details the changes to a person's metabolism that certain diseases cause in the host. A Metabolomic study was performed by the University of Dublin in conjunction with Metabolome Inc. studying HCV infection and the changes t...
This is a rather long article but the conclusion reached is that with treatment of the underlying disease (hepc) even a cirrhotic liver can repair itself. Below are a couple of excerpts. The URL to the complete text is at the very bottom of the page. Review Article: The Reversibility of Cirrhosis ...
Hello I'm Marshall from Colorado. Last August I went to see a gastroenterologist and I was diagnosed dx with Genotype 1A Hep C. Having been infected through blood transfusions during my open heart surgery. Been through a lot of depression this past years. I have so many questions and I think joining...
Hi all. noticed lately i seem to cycling in and out of a weird depressive funk every three weeks or so.. also i don't seem to handle stressful situations very well. i'm interning in a real "Medicare mill" for the last 2 weeks and my tolerance/ patience is at an all time low, not for the patients...
Hi all new to the board, diagnosed with HCV 1a 2010 while doing routine blood work for hormone therapy, apparently have had it since the 70s and not sure how I got it but was doing a lot of partying back then. Anyways my original dr had me slated for clinical trial with bocevir and interferon but I didn't qu...
WHEN THIS RIBA RAGESThis riba rageIs gettin' me downMy face is nowAdorned with a frownThe joy that onceLived insideHas taken a hiatus And said goodbyeThe positive wordsThat used to flow Have said Uh UhWe've got to goThe sense of confidenceThat I once knewHas packed it...
Don't know if you all heard but the plane that crashed on route to Australia was carrying a group of Aids researchers. Very sad news. May they rest in peace. Aids conference says 100 researchers may have been on flight MH17 As many as 100 of the worlds leading HIV/Aids researchers and advocates may...
Am I the only one that see's this,, ?Study offers hope for HIV and Hepatitis C patients July 19, 2014 11:23 AM .View photoA nurse tests for hepatitis C at a hospital in France (AFP Photo/Francois Nascimbeni) Washington (AFP) - A new hepatitis C drug has shown early promise in patients whose infection w...
Blood tests today. Takes a week to get PCR and Viral load results but my LFTs were great. ALT 49 (normal range for this lab 65), AST 48 and GGT which the nurse believes is a very strong indicatior came in at 75 (was 90) My Platelets dropped from 171 to 123 and Neutrophils from 2.5 to .8. So based on those rea...
Just wondering if a significant amount of people have had any irratic sleep issues and mood swings post tx. it's been a couple days post tx and I'm noticing symptoms I had when I first started tx -- like waking up often. not being able to fall back asleep. wondering if this could be a side effect of the meds...
Recs Back to Yahoo!Are Insurers Playing Fair With HIV Patients?By Todd Campbell | More Articles | Save For Later July 20, 2014 | Comments (0) A new complaint claims that insurers may be flouting a key provision of the Affordable Care Act that prevents discrimination. As part of health-care insur...
I'm a 63 years old woman and was just diagnosed with Hep C in Jan. 2014 when I started to have bruising problems due to low platelet count. Big surprise. I've had it since 1977 and at this point I'm early stage cirrhotic with a liver lesion that's being monitored with CT scan and MRI's every 3 months. I'm be...
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