So, it's the end of week 5 for the love of my life and most likely the end of TX as well. I can only imagine her mindset right now as I feel completely hopeless and distraught in not having done a better job helping her through this! She just doesn't have it in her to deal with the side effects. Her doctor downp...
Hello Folks, I am Steve from Italy. I have killed the deadly virus after 10 years of knowing i had the Hepc virus. It was a very scary journey as i did not know what medicine to use. Then when i knew they told its Harvoni but i was not qualified to get approved and the cost to buy direct was way beyond my capaci...
Hello, I have been offered re-treatment from NHS Elbasvir/Grazoprevir. I know I should add Sofosbuvir and Ribavirin. As I have L31M would you recommend me to wait for other drugs form Abbvie or Gilled? I know nothing about ZEPATIER, and is it a good solution for me? thank you ------I am 41 y....
There are so many people getting SVR these days I thought I'd start a thread on fibrosis improvement. It's a shame there is so little research on recovery post SVR compared to the number treatment studies in existence. I suspect more research will be done around this in the coming years. The 2 studie...
Hello All, I used to be on a forum with a lot of you 9 years ago. You all answered so many questions and were so reassuring... LaurieBluesGuy, Minerva, Miss Poppy, JasonPaulTomie, MadameYuSee, John_boy, Chrissy .... And many others! I was so excited to see a lot of you were here. Thank you for those wor...
Hey Friends, Way back in the winter of early 2016, thousand years ago, my sweet girlfriend talked me into stopping my nonsense, putting down the booze, going to the doctor, and looking into treatment for the hep C I'd been ignoring for years. Somehow I ended up with the best Hepatologist in Chicago....
Hi..have a question for those of you who were denied tx from insurance co....My insurance denied my tx, due to "Not Being Sic Enough". I am 2b, Grade 1 biopsy, fatty liver. Clinical papers were sent to Ins. Co, and now I am told that I am the one responsible to proceed with a grievance and external appeal...
Hi all,Today's 'lecture' is on the hepatic stellate cells (HSC's). These little fellows live in the liver in the space of Disse, between the hepatocytes and blood sinusoids. In a normal liver, they are quiescent, and their only function is to store Vitamin A as fat droplets in their cytoplasm. They a...
I am unable to copy/paste, link, post, show this website info here - but here is the "place to go and the title" - perhaps you can google it up - it is a good read.It's from "Clinical Care Options" - Hepatitis - title "HCV: Continuing Advances From Individual Cure to Disease Elimination" - has a very good...
so, new friends, i think i'll call us "hep-c's", (pronounced hep-sees). i thought about "heppers" but that is too close to "heffers" and i don't wanna offend anyone, at least not outright or not until we get to know each other a little bit better. i am thinking that n...
Hi there. I am new to this forum and just looking for some reassurance. I am a 62 year old woman living in the UK and after being a previous non responder on Inteferon and Ribivrin I finally started treatment again 5 weeks ago. This time on Viekerax, Exveira and Ribivrin. I have already had the Ribivirin d...
I hope everyone is doing well and has a great Christmas, and HVC free New Year! I have been feeling pretty good since completing the Abbvie trial. Hating this cold snap though, brrrr! I think I go in for my labs for one year post treatment soon. That trial and this forum were both a such a blessing in a very d...
well, 1 year post treatment, blood showed a couple of abnormalities so had a cat scan and unfortunately I have a tumour on my liver, the Drs want to do ablation therapy next week and microwave the little bugger. but....... My PTT is also slightly elevated and I now have a bruise the length and thickness...
Greeting y'all, I hope each of you are doing well. My test results have been somewhat fumbled in that I will begin week 8 of 12 this Thursday and just now finally got some information to share. The information I have gathered from this web site leaves me a little unsure on how I should view my results. In a n...
anybody else experienced bladder problems - as in constantly feeling a need to pee - while taking Viekirax/Ribavirin? really driving me crazy!!!! I think it may be connected to anemia
ok....so I got a 6.9 score...said my liver is normal....the down side is they will only offer me generic ...interferon with ribv for 6 months. I would only be offered Daa if score was 9 or above.....they said I can wait and see if the new financial year in April sees NHS giving new drugs for G3 apparently b...
OK guys, I'm starting my epclusa treatment page here. I did my second dose today. I'll be glad when the side effects to riba were off. Had insomnia again last night. The nurse from the pharmacy called me earlier. She said I was the 3rd patient they had on epclusa. So there learning still about it also. Th...
Hello, my 66 yo husband started having cramping, numbness and tingling in his legs that eventually went up to his thighs, his entire left arm and started on his right hand about the end of Sept. He went to our primary doc Oct 4 and through blood work discovered he has Hep C. Off to Gastro doc who said that c...
hi all I acquired Hepatitis C in 1993 (23 yrs). never had a problem until approx 2-3 yrs ago, my VL was in the millions and I was told I have borderline chirrosis. I went through a US company sponsored study group that treated my hep c with 'Technivie' (ombitasivir, paritaprevir, ritonavir tablets). I'...
Janssen launches mid-stage study of six-to-eight week HCV regimenJohnson & Johnson's (NYSE:JNJ) Janssen Research & Development, LLC initiates an open-label Phase 2b study assessing the combination of simeprevir, odalasvir and JNJ-4178 (AL-335) in treatment-naive and treatm...
Just received word that Blue Cross Blue Shield denied my doctors request for Harvoni. What a bummer. I believe they did approve Viekira. What research I was able to do is that 8 weeks of Harvoni was less than the 12 weeks of Viekira. My doctor felt and in his experience that 8 weeks of treatment zapped the...
Hi everybody! The doctor prescribe treatment for 24 weeks,Today passed 16 weeks of treatment and my analysis is normal Should I continue the treatment? I need your advice. Thank you all for what supported me,when I had a difficult time.
Hello to all guys! All my American friends with thanksgiving )) All forum users wish a recovery with minimal side effects. My family doctor said that in all of medical history duringa year It will mark hepatitis C But I was no longer obliged to inform other doctors that I had hepatitis C It is only in...
This is not a very new article, and, it is a small number of participants who were Fibroscaned that provide these stats, but I still felt I had to post it, because it just repeats what we hope for - that for many of us, our fibrosis levels will improve after SVR, as indicated by decreasing hardness detecte...
Two fulls jars of Ledihep, known in this country as HARVONI plus another jar minus the ten I took before I realized I was having an allergic reaction. $800. Costs $64,000 in this country. My gastro calls this the closest thing to magic medicine has ever come up with.
I have been advised that I can sue my Doctors as they have had so many chances to diagnose me ( especially as I have constantly asked if my Liver was ok ) for the past 25 years every time I took ill or prescribed meds....I don't really know what to do but solicitors say I have a case. I guess I feel guilty as I ha...
,,, and at the same time l kind of feel like slapping any so called clinician who would while, no doubt be overtly infected with dickeydoo disease, but regardless of his disadvantage, there seems to me to be little excuse for such a statement; "The question of whether and when to treat patients with hep...
Hello everyone! I hope you're all doing fine and I wish you courage and strength in battling the disease. I am really sorry to burden you with my worries, but the message is going to be long, I need to put it into writing because I am driving myself mad: I am a girl born in 1992 (24 yo). I have no history of dru...
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