Call to Action: Physicians Needed to Alleviate HCV Treatment RestrictionsHCV Next, May/June Robert Greenwald, JDIn conducting our national review of Medicaid restrictions for hepatitis C virus treatments, it became obvious that people living with HCV and the broader HCV advocacy community n...
i have a question for all if i may i am 7 months out of treatment and cured SVR and stoked , These are the thing i struggle with day to day Linering depression i mean like once a week major breakdown and exausted i am on treatment and talking with the relavent people side of quad muscles top of legs always so...
Hi there I've just posted a report regarding the drug EPCLUSA for combating Hep C, in the new drug information forum I have almost been cured of Hep C with the aid of this drug my viral load is now 59 which began at 5044467.
Hello everyone: I am so happy to have found this forum. Thank you for making it available. I was a full blown addict and alcoholic in the 80s, 90s, all the way to 2005. I suspect that I got the Hep C virus in the 80s when I was insane and sharing needles with other people. I recall that over a few weeks (I was 19 y...
All day I've been feeling anticipation and dread to take this first $1000 Harvoni pill. Please don't let me choke on it! I am not a morning person, so I decided to take it at 6pm tonight. Does the time of day make any difference anyway? Thankfully, my doctor's office handled all the arrangements wit...
I have a somewhat complicated medley of medical issues, including MS, a neurological thing that eats the insulation on your central nervous system, and slightly high blood pressure, which is easily controlled with a diuretic and something else called Lisinopril. I am guessing that I have had HepC...
My husband found he's hep c positive but his liver enzymes are normal he has been in jail for seven months then mental instition for year. Does he need to be treated I have been married to him. Over 25 years he is 56
Im concerned who if anyone has taken this medication for Hep-C , and I came in contact with Hep-B, 31 years ago as well. Anyone use this medication? I'm scared it could activate the Hep_B again which i might add I never had any symptoms from.
Hi, Thanks for adding me!! I'm 57 year old female that's had Hep c for three decades,Genotype 3B.I was alittle frightened to start treatment from watching some videos I found on youtube. All the years I had this virus I didn't realize that all the dark thoughts,Wasn't feeling like doing anything any...
I arranged to start my Epclusa treatment in July, to accommodate some travel we had planned for May and June. My HMO wants to keep me on a short leash during treatment so running off to Europe, then Idaho-Wyoming-Montana to scare trout with my Epclusa in hand was not going to happen. The Europe trip was F...
The following newspaper article sums up my situation and is finally getting the national coverage that it deserves and hopefully we'll get some service connected compensation for the pain/suffering and financial burden it put on us. I got the jet air gun injections as a routine and welcome into th...
Hi, I have started Harvoni treatment on 05/2016 finished 08/2016 Had 12 week treatment plan. While I was on treatment I have had severe brain fog, just couldn't think at all. Severe fatigue bedridden. And extreme light sensitivity all the time. I started of with low viral count, all organs wer...
Hi..I found out I was HCV positive in 2011. I've had HCV for just about exactly 40 years now. I am 62 now and believe I contracted the HCV when I was 22. I am taking anti-depressants again (really don't want to) after taking years to taper myself off of them. That is what is holding me up from opening up the...
Hello all,
This is my fist time joining a forum, let alone contributing.
So,
I was diagnosed 7 years ago with hep c after a routine health check up. I'm not sure how I contracted the virus but it was definitely sometime between 2001 and 2010.
I started treatment in 2013, I was on triple therapy, bocep...
First I have to say I was scared sh!tless when I was diagnosed with HepC #2. I've never had any blood transfusion or did hard drugs, smoke a little weed here & there, but never injected any foreign objects into my body, nor am I between the age it suggests to get tested for., and only been with 2 partner...
Well its been two years post treatment and the VA ran another test. Still undetected and The ALT And AST are both very low. 20 and 31. I guess I got lucky. I know I had the Hep C 1A about 30 years and no real liver damage and Undetected since the first test. Sure sounds cured to me!. Good stuff Viekira Pak. Good...
Hello all,
This is my fist time joining a forum, let alone contributing.
So,
I was diagnosed 7 years ago with hep c after a routine health check up. I'm not sure how I contracted the virus but it was definitely sometime between 2001 and 2010.
I started treatment in 2013, I was on triple therapy, bocep...
I just got approved for treatment last week with Epclusa. I received the first months supply yesterday and I'm planning on taking my first dose tomorrow. I remembered reading some stores about people having some post treatment effects so I started looking into it a bit more and I am seeing quite a few p...
An unfortunate bit of news.The number of hepatitis C virus infections reported yearly in the United States has tripled since 2010, reaching a 15-year high, according to the CDC.Reports of HCV infection increased from 850 cases in 2010 to 2,436 in 2015. But cases are underreported, and the true num...
Hi there it's been a long time since I've been on this board and sorry that I haven't been keeping up :(
Anyhow I was one of the "lucky" ones to get Harvoni when the FDA first approved it 10/15. The Dr put me on 6 months of treatment becuz I was a former non responder.
Went thru treatment no side affects I was...
I finished my 8 weeks of Harvoni on June 13 and tested UND at end of treatment. I take my SVR test after Labor Day. I was telling Gojuman (Mike) that taking Harvoni every day was like a security blanket. I had no side effects, whatsoever, so when my 8 weeks was up - I wished I had 12-just to keep on putting up...
Been on EPCLUSA for 2 months my viral load has fallen from 5044467 to 59, fantastic news one month left and it's expected to drop to below 12 % which is below the noticeable detection rate I've experienced no side effects or discomfort during the 8 weeks I've undergone therapy prognosis expected to be c...
Many people with Hep C choose to use certain herbs to alleviate their symptoms and help liver health.It's important to have reliable info, since some herbs can be dangerous for people with impaired liver function.The link below, has a comprehensive list of herbs and includes contraindications wi...
hello im new here and to my hepc .. i just found out a couple days ago, i would not even known i had it , but part of getting this new job i was starting(or so i thought) was to do a full pannel std and virus blood tests.. i dint think nothing of it till i got the results.. i was mortified and beyond overwhelmed...
Hi All, long time no post, I am rather busy at work again, after a nice cruise down the coast of Norway, which messed up my BMI targets pretty good (it is 28 again). But I still read the forum a lot. Just got my EOT+43 weeks stuff: HCV PCR: TND (<15), ALT 17, AST 19, GGT 22, AFP 4, and the ultrasound reports...
i have been on Harvoni for 23 days and no major issues, just some tiredness on occasion, some very minor ringing in ears and a little brain fog but very infrequently. No issues with working or sleeping. Feeling water logged but thanks for the advice on a gallon per day. I was a little concerned about sta...
Got my first bloodwork after four weeks. The nurse made a mistake and ordered a genotype which I already had done instead of the viral load. Doc said well I know the virus is still there otherwise the genotype would not have shown up. Most puzzling is my enzymes didnt go down. I went back and had another bl...
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