hi, I am a new member, I was diagnosed in 92 and am a 2b. There is so much to tell you all. But I'll start with: I am recently retired,widowed, and am finally in a happy place with my life. I live in Wisconsin. Yahhhh, you would think snow here for Christmas, Not the case. . Maybe next year. I really look for...
Hi all, i just recieved an email with my eot+4 results which came back UNDETECTED must admit i was scared to open it and wallowed in aphrehension for a wee while... great result although i got my liver panel back in the week which gave me a good indication on todays news as alt and ast had dropped a few more n...
1.HealioGUIDELINESNew ACG guideline on liver chemistries lowers normal ALT levelKwo PY.Am J Gastroenterol.2016;doi:10.1038/ajg.2016.517.December 21, 2016The American College of Gastroenterology has published the first new guideline in over 10 years on the evaluation of abnorm...
Greetings friends! Somedays I have a handle on Epclusa's sides, some days it has a handle on me. Just how it is. But I'm coming down to the last bottle. I'll pop it open next week, so naturally I'm wondering how long it takes for my body to get rid of the stuff? Assuming the sides (fatigue, muscle and joi...
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...
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Shortened the link, JK. -- Edited by Tig56 on Tuesday 20th of December 2016 10:35:22 PM