I'm Jay,, I'm a health care worker in my 50's from South Jersey near Philadelphia, USA. Just got Dx with HCV 1a after loosing 30 lbs. I've read a lot but I'm really scared. I'd like to make friends through this forum. I'm waiting for my appointment with the GI group. I'm worried about my health and m...
One issue I was going to bring up is although I am undetected at week4 with my history is anyone staying on solvaldi/interferon/riba for more than 12 weeks. My doctor is pretty firm on 12.
Hello All Thought this article on SVR impact on cirrhosis was encouraging. This is a excerpt from the article The percentage with regression of cirrhosis Of these 137 patients who achieved an SVR, 73 (53%) patients had regression of cirrhosis.Conclusions; Our results suggest that the majorit...
"People with HIV alone or hepatitis C virus alone were more likely to have advanced liver fibrosis if they drank more alcohol, but people coinfected with both HIV and HCV had a greater risk of advanced fibrosis even with moderate or "non-hazardous" drinking, according to a rep...
I am posting after quite some time. But I have to say this. This site is outstanding in terms of the support that it gives to Hep c patients. I have been to other such forums. While, all of them offer information, sometimes the empathy is missing. People who are diagnosed with Hep C have a lot of questions...
Hopefully competition will drive prices down and make oral treatment available to all. Soon this combo will no longer be refered to as "off Label" Janssen Submits sNDA to FDA for OLYSIO in Combination with Gilead Drug LikeIt was less than six months ago that OLYSIO (simeprevir) in com...
Hello! I'm finally joining you! I've been reading this forum for years. You are all so supportive and smart! I've had Hep C for 40+ years. I'm 61 and G1a. I've been considering treatment for three or four years but wasn't willing to do a whole year. My GI doc said I shouldn't wait any longer. So I'm beginn...
Hey everybody. I'm here on behalf of my dad. I'd get him to come by it took me three month to teach him how use his cell. He's been on treatment for 15 weeks now. He I'd twelve weeks on incivik with copegus. Now he i only on copegus the pill and a weekly shot. He just came back from his weekly shot and was taken un...
I'm supposed to find out if I can start treatment on Thursday and time is passing like molasses. It doesn't help that things are really slow with work right now. The Mavericks lost last night so they're out of the playoffs. Another week till the next Game of Thrones episode. I'm trying not to obsess...
Hope this topic is PC. I'm currently having my first period after starting treatment. This period seems more painful and more excessive (bleeding). I'm wondering if this has anything to do with cleansing the dead virus from my blood. I still can't express enough how stressed I've been (and still am)...
A Healio.com article regarding information presented at: Digestive Disease Week 2014; May 3-6, 2014; ChicagoRe-treatment with Sofosbuvir, Interferon effective in GT 2 or 3Telaprevir (Incivek) showed greater SVR, cost-effectiveness than Boceprevir (Victrelis) among HCV patients ...
Hi, introducing myself, I am a retired nurse who is geno 1A and has failed treatment twice:( I was diagnosed late '70s with non A nonB. Definitive diagnosis of C was made early 90s. 10 years ago, my first treatment was interferon with RIBA, then switched from interferon to Infergen. I developed sev...
Anyone else with a chronic inflammatory disease have an extreme flare that correlated with the cessation of treatment for hep c? I am almost positive it is cause I am done with treatment and now my blood cells(probably white ones) are now regenerating and causing inflammation where it lies. I have n...
My Viral Load at end of treatment is undetectable. I am feeling very relieved right now! It has been a week off of the medications. I am feeling better, but still have had some of the fatigue, and the rash on my hands came back. It looks better today, and hopefully with time as the medication works its...
I have been trying to start treatment since July and today I finally got a start date of 2/14. I go in that morning to begin triple TX with sovaldi for 12 weeks. I am kind of glad that things got pushed back when they did because now I get to start the new stuff. Anyone else doing the triple tx with this? I am ex...
Here is a portion of what I read about the cosmos trial. I have added the link as well for the whole article. I'm not sure if this has already been posted or not, but here it is. In genotype 1a patients with the Q80K polymorphism at baseline, 89 percent and 83 percent achieved SVR12 after 12 weeks of treatme...
I know several people who have had liver transplants and have hepatitis C. They are trying to find out more about the new direct-acting antivirals (sofosbuvir, ledipasvir,etc.) and about the clinical trials for those with liver transplants and HCV. I would truly appreciate any information you c...
I'm living proof that I cured Hep C without any medications. Don't stray the public to think that only a man-made medication can cure disease, that is totally false information! I cured my Hep C without any help from any doctor! So YES, it can be cured! I had cirrhosis of the liver and now it's undetectab...
doing the sovaldi pegsys & riba. I am tring to drink lots of water. hard sometimes. but I am developing a small bumpy sorta red arsh on my face just a little. anyone having this too? its really annoying. well very.... I already have place a dermatologist froze off my arms & legs 2 yrs ago that wil...
I have spent over 10,000 dollars on liver teas, Chinese herbs and supplements. I will never know if they prevented any long term stability on my liver - but they have NEVER made my blood tests normal or prevented fibrosis. Use them as a healthy lifestyle choice, but NEVER as a cure!
I am new to these forums, but wanted to share with someone that I have been on the Ribavarin/Simprevir/interferon treatment for 6 weeks and was just informed by my doctor's office that my blood is clear of infection, half way through treatment and it's already done it's job. It feels great to feel like...
Hi Everyone, I've made some additions and updates to our list of payment assistance programs here on the forum. The thread is closed to additions and commentary because we wanted to keep the information readily available and prevent it's loss in a lengthy post count. Wayne (Oldenslow) gave me some n...
Hi everyone, I posted here back in August. Then I disappeared, sorry about that. I started the Sovaldi / Olysio tx friday. Its time to kick this Hep C's a$$! That being said, I went home sick from work today. Headache, nausea & very fatigued. I'm also feeling weak. It's still a hundred times better t...
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