VIRAL LOAD - "LOG" CONVERSIONWhen the lowest limit of detection used is <12 IU/mL = 1.08 log When the lowest limit of detection used is <15 IU/mL = 1.18 log (as described below, 15 to 100 million)This assay has a result range of 15 to 100,000,000 IU/mL (1.18 log to 8.00 log IU/mL) for quantifi...
Hello everyone. I am new to this forum and have many questions. I was approved for the drug and received it in the mail yesterday. Which is how I found this site. My Dr. never spoke to me about how or when to start. I'd like to know about how others began can its possible effects on any upcoming events I ha...
I have had a few PM's about the difficulty in treating cirrhotics. This has been discussed before, but I'll make this a 'Sticky'.Firstly, only 20-30% of HCV patients will develop cirrhosis, and it usually takes 20-40 years. There are some predisposing factors, such as Genotype 3, obesity, diabete...
Is that any cause for concern? My ALT dropped even more since last year and it is great. I just wasn't sure what a lower than range AST might mean? Not much to read online about it low only high. My sudden inability to absorb B12 right after treatment is now worse. And now my folate level is double wh...
The fatigue & brain fog were the worst part of HVC for me. I was a active person until the monster took my drive away. I'm proud to say I'm getting it back. I'm still not as strong as before but I am finishing the projects I'm working on at a steady pace. My brain fog seems to be gone. I finished 4 remodel...
Hi there, does anybody know if using a small dose of 1-2iu of growth hormone would hinder or help boost the immune system and help repair liver enzymes after finishing treatment, i have searched for interactions and its not listed...any help much appriciated.
hi there, i've just finished the 12 week cure of daklinza/solvadi, will have another bloodtest done in 6 weeks time. the treatment itself was a piece of cake no advers side effects other than that i was easily distracted, or would just totaly forget that i was talking to someone and would walk away,...
Hi all I've been getting quite a few liver pains recently. More so than before or on treatment. I don't think it's a sign of relapse as I was UND at EOT+12 so - thinking positively - perhaps it's my liver healing itself. Before treatment I used to occasionally get brief darting pangs and dull aches in th...
Hello Everyone, I ended Harvoni on September 28, 2015 and complete treatment successfully. I have had 3,6, and 9-month blood test and all have come back hepc negative. However, from reading the forms, my liver enzymes should have come down during treatment and remained. When I asked my doctor h...
It's official. EOT+24w PCR RNA test result came back, undetected. My hepa also got good news. She is negotiating with Gilead for Epclusa. So future might be bright for HCV patients in Bosnia (deal with Abbvie went sour). Somehow i am not at all in celebration, do not know why. I was more or less ignoring...
Hi everyone: The url of this forum, hepcfriends, actually gets me choked up. I need friends now so badly. I was recently diagnosed with Hep C genotype 3. It is relatively new infection because I tested negative for Hep C antibodies last year. My liver enzymes suddenly shot up and my doctor was trying to...
Hi. Im new in this forum. I searched cyroglobulinemia inthis fforum but it seems no one here knows anything about it or if they do they haven't mentioned it. If you are aware of it please let's chat. It is a blood issue that people with HCV may have but are not aware of it. People with no HCV have it also. Appa...
Hello all at the start of tx my afp was 40,they scanned for HCC nothing showing. they have told me its not a reliable blood test and are no longer checking it.Only 12 days to go. abbvie 3d no virus since week four so looking good -- Edited by Tiger on Monday 3rd of October 2016 06:57:16 PM-- Edited by Tiger on...
Hi ! Am new to this forum. Am female and Have HCV, was wondering if it is OK to implant the embryos from my IVF cycle in a surrogate ? I make excellent embryos, but implantation is not working for me, can I use surrogate, in this case is there any risk to the surrogate PLEASE HELP !! Thanks a lot
Starting treatment tomorrow and to be honest I ain't looking forward to it but it seems like a lot of people on here breeze through it, maybe I'm wrong but just would like to find an outlet for my experience and advice when needed, cheers
Just got results in - YES!!!!!! Bloods back in " normal" range. ALT and AST up a bit at 25 and 41 but I'm sure they fluctuate a bit. Went out and danced around a quite 10 miler. Onward and upward - take care all
I got my blood drawn on Monday Sept 19, 84 days post Harvoni. On the runway, awaiting takeoff to Managua on Thursday, Sept 22, I got the call from my doctor. SVR. Hepatitis C is no longer part of my life. Thanks for the support, amigos. Harvoni is easy magic.
Greetings and Salutations, Guess I'll start at the beginning. On 9/2/15 I had unprotected sex with a girl I had known for years but never been intimate with before. She was a opiate addict IV user with Hep C, was menstruating and going to jail the following day. This is the only time or way I could of contr...
Greetings all, im a newby on here, my name is Paul im 52 today is the last day of treatment which was 8 weeks of harvoni im a Geno 1a well i was i hope lol prior to starting i had a viral load of 2.5 million within 11 days it was 35 and after 4 weeks it was <12 and undetected, no complaints couldnt believe how...
Hi everybody today was the last of an 8 week course of harvoni in comparison i seemed to have been one of the lucky ones who have sailed through treatment with the useall minor sides, im 52 before treatment my viral load was 2.5 million alt 752 ast 643 fibroscan was 5.3 after 11 days of treatment vl *35 afte...
Hello Everyone! Wanted to check in after getting my 1 year post treatment results today - UND! A great feeling to know the dragon is dead. For the most part I have been doing well, some brain fog which I try to work around but physically doing good. I hope that all who do the Harvoni treatment and the new dru...
Hello Everyone. I was first diagnosed in early 2006, and after a lengthy investigation into past medical records found out I contracted it in 1983 when I had a blood transfusion during my spinal surgery. I have genotype 1b, no cirrhosis, stage 2. Decided against interferon back then due to the low suc...
Newest EASL HCV Recommendationshttp://www.easl.eu/medias/cpg/HCV2016/English-report.pdfBut to save you all that reading, below is a "shorter" article about some of it:I note...
Just about 12 weeks in, 12 to go. Physically feeling better than in a long time. Lacking some strengthings- stamina. Still don't have any communication with the gastroenterologist, lab results are steady. I've had 3 CBC's & CMP's done since starting tx, kidney Doc had couple other labs done. Me...
Hello, im a 55 year old female dagnosed with hep c g2 in July. Fiberscore 8.9. I never knew anything much about the disease at all until I was diagnosed. i found out through a yearly dr checkup which my dr recently started testing for it with his patients. It hits you like a brick wall, I had to find out every...
NICE has published new draft guidance which recommends sofosbuvir-velpatasvir. The NICE appraisal committee concluded that sofosbuvir-velpatasvir was clinically and cost-effective, and should be routinely available on the NHS.Sofosbuvir-velpatasvir - a tablet taken once daily - works...
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no advers side effects other than that i was easily distracted, or would just totaly forget that i was talking to someone and would walk away,...