Tonight I will take my first pill...I am excited to start this journey. Side effects or not I am going for it. Certainly cannot be any worse then the past treatment I took of interferon. Will keep posting !
Hi Everyone, I offer my new results up as encouragement to anyone still struggling. I treated with Sovaldi and Olysio and my one year viral load indicates I remain undetectable. Even at one year I was still a bit nervous waiting on the results. So, it is indeed a miracle after having had Hep C for over 40 y...
Updated Label for Daklinza (daclatasvir) for the 12-week Treatment of Non-cirrhotic Patients with Chronic Hepatitis C Genotype 3 Approved by the European Commission Daklinza in combination with sofosbuvir is the first 12-week all-oral therapy for genotype 3 patients without cirrhosis in Eur...
We have often been asked what we can or should do with left over or expired medication. Here is a website that discusses your options. http://www.disposemymeds.org/
Day 4 Harvoni - Went to the gym last night. Lifted weights and knocked down a 1/2 mile in the pool. Feeling OK. I got myself in some of the best shape of my life over the last year in preparation for treatment and a triathlon I ran in June. I think getting in shape before beginning treatment will prove to be b...
Well, I've just returned home from seeing my Consultan, I am at week 8 of treatment and just been told that the virus has been non-detectable since week 5! I can't begin to explain the relief felt, I truly hope all you guys can get the same treatment and results....I have 4 more weeks of treatment and then...
Hello everyone, it has been a while since I have written an update in Angelo's condition. Let's see : EOT 24 wks Harvoni on May 10, 2015 UND : 4 wks, 13 wks. After Radioimbolization and TACE for his HCC ( 2 tumors)he was able to meet the MILAN Criteria which qualifies him to get on the Liver Translanta...
Click HERE for AIDS Info guidelines portal.This is some fairly current information (4-2015) for co-infected individuals. Personally, I found the information pertaining to co-administration of Ledipasvir / Tenofovir very informative considering I take Harvoni for Hep C / Tenofovir, Etravi...
New to forum...genotype 1b started 12 wk treatment VP/RIBA (1200) on July 13th. At start VL3mil, undetectable at 3 weeks but detectable at 5 weeks <15. Doc says this is unusual but seen once in awhile. All else good w/ blood work, etc. feeling ok so far.
I am leaving tonight back to Rome. The Circus starts in 8 days. Had a great short sail, some frigging hot weather, best of all, my results, and my cat was happy We will be in all major Euro cities until December. Send a post if you are close, come down, will give you the tour .If your going to a show, defi...
Hi all,I don´t know you will remember me.I want to update my status. I ´ve treated with Harvoni and I´ve got UND 12 weeks post. So, I´m very happy and I want to thanks all of you,because you have helped me a lot. Now, I´m remembering my life with HCV, and I remember the relief I felt when I found this forum...
I just got my week 16 blood test back and noticed a drop in my Est GFR from 83-86 over the last few months to 64 with normal being above 60. It was once at 66 I noticed about a year and 1/2 ago. I'm wondering if this is to close to the lower limits and if I am beginning to have kidney problems as I have read HCV can ca...
This months (new look) newsletter from the HCV Advocate website contains some interesting and very informative articles including `Hep C in Children`, and `Big Questions About Hep C - answers to some commonly asked questions about HCV and treatment`. Pdf link... http://hcvadvocate.org/news/...
Everything has been and is so positive. Had horrible dream that liver relapsed, won't go into details. Must be that piece of fear that rests, waiting, to strike. Other shoes is going to drop stuff. Dreams all night, woke up a lot, tossed and turned, but the one that woke me up was really bad. Is this li...
Hey guys. I did my post treatment 10 week labs . I was undetectable AST 22 ALT27 what is odd though is my testosterone continues to go down. Now it's down to 276, down from 303 the last time and 540 before treatment. My blood pressure has been high and I keep getting horrible headaches. It's been In the 140-...
Back in 2004 i was told I had genotype 2a, relatively easy to treat but nonetheless after 2 rounds of copeg treatment naive. The success rates of this genotype with my currents meds, ribavarin, soldivir, daclatisvir seemed very promising. My md called today to tell me that the last blood test indic...
Yale Medicine ran a small study last year investigating the approval process for the Harvoni protocol. I personally think in the time following this report, we saw an increase in this percentage. We knew we weren't imagining it... Let's hope for a rapid improvement in these numbers. It's good to kno...
I was diagnosed with Hep C years ago, but have only began to feel very tired most of the time. After many Doctor visit's and blood work, I was approved to start taking the Solvaldi/Ribavirin combination. I am a little concerned about the side effect's, but anything has to be better than I've felt the la...
Hi everyone, We`re very pleased to announce that Mike (wmlj1960) has agreed to join us on the Admin team as a forum moderator. As many of you already know, Mike has been a valued and respected member of this community for a good while and we appreciate how helpful and supportive he always is to others, e...
Hi everyone, My name is Karina, I'm from Toronto(Canada). In Nov.2014 I was tested positive for HCV. It took me so long to see liver specialist, finally in June i saw him, and he told me that OHIP will not cover me, cause I'm only stage 0. What does it mean i had no idea. I did fibroscan on July and got 4.4mar...
Hi folks! Long time no see. I recently had my standard check up, testing C panel and a1c, (still in the pre diabetic range) They also did a viral load. Since I have been having this test (first one was in 1999) the range has always fell in the millions. From the low 1 millions up to 3 million...It always went...
Hi Only 7 days of meds to go! At 4 weeks there was no detectable trace of virus and at my last appt on August 4th they said it takes them a while to get the results back. I guess with a clinical trial all blood work goes to the lab conducting the trial and then it's sent back to the administering hospital or clin...
This is a frightening statistic! Consider there are approximately 3-4 million cases of reported chronic HCV in the USA alone. If the CDC is correct and this number of acute cases goes unreported, of which 75% progress to chronic HCV, the number of people with chronic HCV is not going down, but up at an a...
Well my nurse called and told me I was undetected... but after careful reading and research , I see that my printed results say "hepatitis C Quantitation <15 IU/mL HCR RNA detected.Technically this is not UND... correct??and a question - is the qualitative test the one that can tell y...
How important is it to get a 24 week test. I was clear at 14 weeks eot. I can ask my pc for test but will not go back to gastro doc. She was the worst.
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