"The formulary decision by the VA comes as a panel assembled by the system last month recommended that doctors warehouse hepatitis C patients, putting those with advanced liver disease on Sovaldi first.""By triaging patients, health care providers can absorb the patient load -...
I will be starting my treatment this evening (Sovaldi, Interferon, & Ribavirin). My copay was supposed to be $500 a month (for 3 months) but I found a copay card for Sovaldi and Interferon and it has brought it down to $245, I found one for Ribavirin, but I think I found it too late. We are gonna try tho...
Just got report back from 4 wk lab result. Due to privacy issue they won't email lab results but this email arrived this morning. Good morning Dave. Can you guess what this means? Thats right.you-know-what is negative! Hope you are enjoying your trip so far. When you get the chance, let me know ho...
its been quite a while since I have posted, mainly because I did not want to write anything too negative, however I need to offload!!! From week 21, its week 27 next week I have reached a place that I am struggling to comprehend and its a freaky feeling of 'they are coming to take me away'...I finally admit...
J. Ampuero1,2, M. Romero-Gómez1 and K. R. Reddy2,*Article first published online: 20 FEB 2014 DOI: 10.1111/apt.12646 Summary Background Over the past several years, hepatitis C therapy has been pegylated interferon and ribavirin based. Although protease inhibitor-based therapy has enhanc...
I have genotype 3a and am on week 12 of the 24 week Tx Sovaldi and ribavirin combo. I am working a 40 hour day but no overtime. From my perspective if you are taking this, Rest is the best and you need some exercise too. So striking a balance between work, diet and rest is the Key to tolerance.
I started new treatment today of sovaldi and ribavirin and hoping this treatment might cure my type 2 diabetes problem when I am undetectable. I just took my first day's dose without issues. I am a new member and this is my first post. I hope to find someone out there to share my experience with and pe...
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...
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