I'm starting to feel the effects of our friend Ribaviren. It is a sad day when you let wind that is so odious that everyone assumes it can be only the dog it is that bad! ;) Vile little pills are making me woozy, tired, headache and very smelly. Is this the start of anemia, or just toxic effects of my friend t...
It has been awhile since I have posted anything and for that I do apologize. I am now 23 weeks post treatment. Yesterday I did my blood draw. I am confident I have achieved SVR. And yet I have come down with night sweats. No matter how cool we keep the house I wake drenched, and need to change my bed clothes a...
Hi Everyone, I located this treatment tracker, provided by MySupport Path (Gilead). It lists specifically the 12 and 24 week charts. Now that Sovaldi is considered the primary or backbone, it appears that many doctors are choosing to wait until EOT for the viral load, regardless of tx length. I gues...
"(Reuters) - Gilead Sciences Inc, under fire for pricing a new hepatitis C drug at $1,000 a pill, has discount agreements with a number of health insurers, a company executive said in an interview..."[url]http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/29/us-gilead-hepatitis-idUSBR...
They said keep going. alt and ast and alkaline phosphatase plummeted to almost normal. Billirubin is up from 1.2 to 1.4 The infamous blood count: NEUTROPHILS %, AUTOMATED COUNT42.0 - 75.0 %26.3LYMPHOCYTES %, AUTOMATED COUNT20.0 - 51.0 %48.8MONOS %, AUTO1.0 - 12.0 %22.3
Well after months of being poked, prodded, x-rayed, fibroscanned, MRIed, and basically made to feel like a human pin cushion from all the blood work I took my Sovaldi, simeprivir (Galexo in Canada), and ribavirin this morning. The clinic nurse said I was the first to get this off-label treatment on V...
After failing two attempts at treatment over the last 15 years I have been cured in less than two weeks. I have the unfavorable genotype TT near the Il28b gene so I had a very poor response to interferon which is why the previous two attempts at treatment failed. Five weeks ago I started a clinical tria...
Yay. pharmacy folks called me & i have been approved for the sovaldi interferon & riba treatment. just got to work on assistance with the riba & interferon co pay. coapy for sovaldi is only 5$. i had been dreading this, but when they actually told me i was doing the happy dance. this is 4th a...
Happy Monday everyone! I got my 8 week labs a little early. My PCP was overly worried about my elevated WBC. I had checked in with him after my 2 week labs showed the elevation and my liver doc wanted me to check in with the PCP. He re-ran the labs and WBC was still elevated. Then my liver doc ran my 4 week lab...
I'm still awaiting insurance approval to get on the new meds but am curious about something. First, I want to say this board is a great thing and also it's so wonderful and encouraging seeing all these posts of undetectable virus after being diagnosed for 17 years and going thru the interferon/riba tr...
Well it is Friday night again and took my shot as supposed to. Tonight I had the most god damn awful panic attack because I have a stupid fear of needles and got so worked up. So instead of going to sleep I am wide awake with the after effects and can't shake that horrible feeling and weird sensations they ca...
From the HCV Advocate website.This month`s issue includes details of the new drug studies presented at The Conference on Retroviruses and Opportunistic Infections (CROI), from Abbvie, BMS, BMS/Janssen, and Gilead. CROI:14 was recently held in Boston, MA, and this year there were quite a few pr...
Hi.. I am so excited, as I will start treatment soon (Next 2 weeks).. Ive been on treatment list for 1 1/2 years and that was the short list.. I did not get that, as my insurance covers it..Anyways I just wanted to say "HI".. I have compensated cirrohiss and am 42 years old.. I hope all goes well...
Hi Guys, Well, we got back some preliminary info on the 2 week bloodwork my husband had done yesterday. I didn't expect to hear back so soon. Thought I would paste what was told to him and hear what you guys thought. We got two emails back which contradict the part about the hemoglobin. Here's the fir...
Hey All, I couldn't wait for the doctor's office to mail my results (she wouldn't tell me over the phone) so I drove across town this afternoon and picked em up. Got the news I was hoping for, ALT and AST levels in the normal range for 1st time in 12 years and HCV = Not Detected (<15 IU/mL and <1.18...
Hi, went for an interview today for an Abbvie trial coming up, its called Abt 333/Abt267 2nd generation n55a inhibitor plus rbv has any one any knowledge of this treatment? thanks
Well good morning friends, long time not checked in but doing good, hair came back on head darker, joint pain and muscle pain less with more activity, energy coming back and brain fog clearing up, not divorced yet but that is a definite in my view, still 2 feet of snow but sun back and spring has sprung, do...
Press Release, 2 April 2014, Stockholm, Sweden - Medivir AB today announces that two phase III trials are recruiting patients to examine the efficacy and safety of the NS3/4A protease inhibitor simeprevir in combination with the nucleotide inhibitor sofosbuvir for the treatment of chronic geno...
My friend called today to let me know that she went for a general physical which included basic blood work. There was one test she did not recognize...HCV. When asked about this, the doctor told her that running a test for hep c is now standard protocol for her age group... I was amazed and very pleased...
I thought I'd start a new thread where people could post there labs.
I had my labs done at 11 am today and got the results via e-mail at S1 pm. Except PCR.
Anyway: Hematocrit 48.8, HGB 17.2, ALT 37, AST 35, WBC 6.8
They look good, it blows me away how well my HGB came back the altitude probably helped.
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Started tx a week ago sovaldi/olysio/riba and glad to see all the posts here of those on similar tx and those who are already cured. Congrats and good luck to all I am SO grateful for this new tx and looking optimistically forward to 4 week appt. with dr and improved labs. So far the only side effect I've no...
well...actually closer to 15 weeks due to my crazy work schedule and my doc's conference/lecture schedule. Still undetected! All my blood chemistry results are beautifully boring and uneventful. The doc said he would check me again in 3 months (6 months post.) ...and then again 12 weeks after that...
I was supposed to go for week 4 EOT labs today, but it is postponed until Thursday due to possible ice storm. I spent the first 2 weeks EOT in bed most of the time. Bad gastro problems last few weeks of tx and they got worse after EOT. Another trial participant posted me privately that she was having simil...
Hi All, For the past week I have been waking up with joint stiffness I've not had before. Every little thing is stiff and working is difficult to say the least. I do get relief from Ibuprophren, but I wonder why this has manifested itself so suddenly? My paranoid mind has me thinking I'm of the 2% who'l...
I know this sounds silly, but I was so excited today I got through my appointment through on the 24th April for the Doctor check and first viral load check, but I am... :D I have had such an easy week it is like I'm not on treatment apart from some dry eyes that I have drops for. Since I have had low blood press...
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