Hi all,Saw my doc yesterday, and he sent me for a Fibroscan this morning.In August 2008, my score was 30.1 kPa ( F4). Now, at EOT + 12 months, it's 8.8 kPa!!!!!!!!!!!!! On most charts that is F2, but my doc's practice has their own chart, based on thousands of matched readings compared with biopsy findi...
Hey everyone, I was diagnosed with Hep C about 2-3 months ago, contracted through sharing needles (dumb, I am aware). Got tested 1st time in 2011-negative then positive this year, thus have not had the virus too long. I am currently 2 weeks sober, and living in a sober living and attending an intensive...
July 9th 5am PST USA my stats are in the brass tax post......... WARNING WARNING WARNING LONG POST Anyway so yesterday I went north an hour to Walla walla Washington to thier mega Hospital complex pretty good spread they have ... took little time to find correct building..... Gastro Bria...
Monday, July 7, 2014. PRINCETON, N.J. Bristol-Myers Squibb Company announced today that the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) has approved Daklinza (daclatasvir), a potent, pan-genotypic NS5A replication complex inhibitor (in vitro), and Sunvepra(asunaprevir), a NS3/...
The structural proteins of HCV encodes two distinct envelope glycoproteins, E1 and E2, and notably lacks a structural or functional homolog of the prM/M protein found in flaviviruses. However this virus is vary much like flaviviruses like the West Nile Virus,, This makes me wonder ,, Is Sovoldi...
Hi All,Got this email from my trial coordinator this morning. Good news for one who HAD Hep C and has type 2 diabetes. I'll post my lab flow sheet when I get it. Merck is great !! I am SO grateful for having the opportunity to participate in their trial. Reached my goal of SVR before my 80th birthday in...
I have my second interview with the specialist regarding the Abbvie trials this week, are the any questions I need to ask him? I thought I had seen a lits on this site but can't seem to find it. He is a very busy and direct guy so I want to make my questions to the point...if this all makes sense. Thanks liam...
Finished sovaldi olysio therapy on July 3. Labs continue to improve and VL is.. UND!!!!! I know there was some angst on a couple of posts about not being UND at week 4, neither was I with a load of 167 at wk 4, and here I am EOT UND so have hope! Still have the fatigue at this point but my gastro tells me it can...
Well Sunday afternoon I got a call from my doctor with the good news that I did clear the virus at 6 weeks. Was at the lowest level of detection at week 4. Really don't know how to feel at this point. Felt very strange, almost as if it is too good to be true. The doctor did tell me that we have to do blood work at 12...
A guide to Coping with Depresssion and Hepatitis C, updated April 2013A Publication of the Hep C support Project, by Lucinda K Porter, RNA helpful guide which covers various aspects of depression, and suggests ways to gain insight and control over it.Link to pdf file...http://www.hcvadvocate.o...
The full prescribing information for the S/L combo is not available until FDA approval, but its clinical use data MAY give some indication of what the prescribing length of tx will look like: an 8 week course for some and a 12 week course for others (including cirrhotics). Also included is a possibl...
Science has not had this kind of upset since the Boson partial. Advances in Hep-c treatment and HIV are due in part to the use of super computers like the famous KARKEN to model a single three dimensional virus core and mapping it. With the HIV virus floating around in a modal on the screen we can see th...
Abstract The structural details of hepatitis C virus (HCV) have been elusive because of the lack of a robust tissue culture system for producing an adequate amount of virions from infectious sources for in-depth three-dimensional (3D) structural analysis. Using both negative-stain and cryo-e...
I would like to know how bad this treatment makes you feel on scale of 1-10 1 being hardly know its there 10 being profound physical and mental pain and or sadness ... basicly 10 being really bad anything above a 7 or 8 sounds barely tolerable.... #2 umm is there anyway to couteract the red blood cell lo...
PRINCETON, N.J.-- 27 June, 2014. Bristol-Myers Squibb today announced that the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) has adopted a positive opinion recommending that Daklinza (daclatasvir), an investigational, potent pan-genotypic NS...
Hey yall, After 8 weeks of Sovaldi and Ribavirin...the virus is UNDETECTABLE....At day 16 it went from 600,000 to <43 and on day 45 <43 again...However on day 59 the virus is UNDETECTABLE...PRAISE JESUS...I AM SO GRATEFUL FOR A SECOND AND THIRD CHANCE AT LIFE. MY LOVE FOR YOU - PART ONE ...
Hi All, So at week 4 I was at the lowest detection VL rate before being undetectable. So the doctor said he was beyond positive I would be UND at week 6 and said he would eat his shoes and shave my initials in his hair if I wasn't. He said the real test is 12 weeks post treatment. So I told him that wouldn't it be a...
Hi, I haven't posted for some time as it has been a long, hard academic year and I've not been well (I was also turned down for a trial in January). I went to see my consultant today and he has put me forward for the new treatment which I think is not still approved for license in the UK. Any info that you migh...
first stat says hep c (070.70) 2nd page hep c quantitation 2600000 copies ml hcv log 10 6415 log 10 copy/ml hcv quant (iu/ml) 1040000 iu/ml hcv iu log 10 6.017 log 10 iu /ml third page hemoglobin a1c 5.3% norm 4.8 -5.6 afp serum tumor marker 8.8 (abn:h) ana d...
greetings all, it's been a while since my last 3mo. und post. i am now a proud member of the 6 mo. svr club!!!! this is my 2nd round of tx & hopefully last. all my blood work came out normal w/ the exception of my ferretin levels, hgb is only 9.5, rbc is only 4.1, perfect ast & alt a mere 32. currently i'...
Got the call today to start meds next Thursday on the Merck 5172/8742 combo. Its a 12 week, 1 pill day, double blinded placebo trial. Of course I'm hoping I'm in the 75% not on placebo, but even if I'm not, I still get the real thing after 18 weeks. Excited to finally have a hope of being free of this crap....
Hepatitis C - The patient is being seen for follow-up. The hepatitis c is characterized as Genotype 3. Therapy includes: non-responder to treatment. Previous diagnostic tests have included ultrasound (splenomegaly and platelet count of 212,000). No contraindications to interferon therapy...
Hi everyone, My status as of now is that I have the last bottle of Sovaldi in the mail, Seen my nurse Thris, she ordered a CT scan to be done Monday., The blood work is all good, but I still have some kind of Pain/discomfort. I got the virus wiped, this is something else that has been hiding in the backgroun...
Thought I should move this conversation from the "On Treatment Thread". My apologies, it probably shouldn't have been there to begin with. I was so bummed out I wasn't thinking clearly, and maybe still not. Didn't sleep at all Monday night with all the different thoughts, concerns, a...
So I just had my first shot of Interferon. Rib tonight and hopefully Boceprivir in 4 weeks time. -- Edited by Paul B on Tuesday 10th of June 2014 07:53:59 AM
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