From my doc - Your viral load after 4 weeks of treatment is detectable but < 20.It means the medication is working to suppress the viral production. When I responded I was told:The test is much more sensitive than other places. Our detectable <20 is what the drug company used to define treatment...
Hi all, I just got off the phone with my insurance company. I've been approved for tx! Called my doc and left a message so that he can write the prescriptions and send them to one of my two choices of specialty pharmacy, Accredo or Walgreen's. I've read some nightmare stories on here about Accredo, so I&q...
Feeling like I have a chest cold. Just started Harvoni 4 days ago and wondering if that is just a sx. But my lungs feel like an infection. which doctor do I go see? My Gastro or GP. Anyone taken amoxicillin or a zpak while on Harvon?
All I can say is I am the luckiest girl, okay woman, in the whole wide world!!! Given my history I should be dead a few times over but here I am at 67 years with fairly good health and NO Hepatitis C. I'm really having a hard time believing it. It has been with me since I was around 22 years old. Unbelievable! N...
I'm one that just got into the system at the perfect time as Harvoni is available and the big shake up last year that got them more funding and more pressure to perform. They gave me a complete physical, confirmed my HVC and am now going to start the Harvoni in a couple of days. My esperience and observati...
Just go my bloods back everything is within range but my glucose level has dropped from 5,6 to 2.08 within a month. Has anyone else experienced this or know of its significance? I have been really tired the past 2 weeks. 4 weeks to go.
The reason that I ask this is that my original Dx was in Thailand during a routine physical exam and in the year 2000, I got the biopsy [ouch] and their determination of my genotype was 1a. fast forward to Jan this year and the VA says that I have 1b and starting me on Harvoni tomorrow. Should I assume that t...
(Bloomberg) -- A $10 version of Sovaldi, the Gilead Sciences Inc. hepatitis C treatment that sells for $1,000 a pill in the U.S., is now available in Bangladesh and could make its way to other parts of the world where the U.S. company doesnt have patents. Incepta Pharmaceuticals Ltd. doesnt have a li...
I am very curious about why 12 weeks after treatment my platelets have gotten lower while my liver enzymes have gotten so much better, and so am wondering if there is any relationship between these two things. Before treatment my platelets were 65, got up to 84 during treatment and at 3 weeks after tx,...
I've been lurking on this forum for a while now as I was waiting for approval from the VA for TX [hopefully with Harvoni] and my dream came true yesterday [Friday] when they finally gave me my first 2 weeks worth of the magic [pink] silver bullets and told to start TX on Monday and am doing a crash course on t...
I just happened upon this forum and wonder why I had not found it earlier. I joined the Harvoni Club in January. I am treating for 12 weeks, and I have 3 weeks to go. I had tried the interferon/ribavirin poison in 2009 and, after only 18 days, ended up in the hospital unsure of my future. Fortunatel...
thats what i was told yesterday :) mad or worried .. haha ya right... at F-2 that means your insurance more then likely wont cover cough up 80 grand i kinda knew that all along... so now iLL go Vikira Proceed or Harvoni support path... haha but wait theres more if say they fall through iLL just mos...
Hi everyone, I have been hiding in the real world, but busy with the hospital. Today I was implanted with two embyros, I wont know if they took for a couple of weeks. but either way, its wonderful to get the chance. What was even better is they bought a new freezer so my other potential babies, that gives me...
Just when you think you can sit back and rest easy, It all comes down to money ( GILEAD S GREED #1 ) and the insurance co's and the Pharmacy. I'm told I have to pay $5,000.00 copay for month 5 and $6500 for month 6. I'm not so much angry that may have have to pay. but that Nobody flagged it before or even as I star...
I'm about 18 days into treatment on Viekira Pak + Ribavirin and am having serious difficulty concentrating sometimes. I work as a mold technician at a large Auto trim manufacturer and brain fog is not what I need. No real troubles other than that. My hemoglobin is down from 14 to 12.3 but the other labs w...
I finished Harvoni 6 weeks ago Decided to do a 6 week blood . I cleared and failed Triple therapy a few years back so I am a bit on edge. Should get results tomorrow . If it only puts my mind at ease I suppose there is no harm in doing it now and again 6 weeks from now . Good luck to all of us
Today we found out that my fiancé has Hep C, going for more tests for cirrhosis/cancer. I am trying to learn all I possibly can.... He is 63, was a heavy drinker for many many years, just stopped drinking at New Years, doctor told him today his stopping drinking is what triggered everything. IDK? He look...
Next month I go for my 24 weeks post eot labs to determine if I'm svr or not. Now I have that familiar ache in my liver. Not as bad as it used to be. Maybe im.just eating poorly. Anyway. Now I'm anxious. Wondering why she wouldn't consider me svr @ 12 weeks and if it's a sign it's back that my liver aches.
Medicare Extra Help: Just in case there are people on this forum that are not aware of this Medicare program that helps pay for your prescriptions (copay) If you qualify for the program they will help pay for part B and no prescription will be over $6.60. They also will help pay for Senior Advantage Prog...
Has anyone had any problems with their heart medication while on Vikera-pac w/ riba. Or any other? This Harvoni scare is not favorable. Anyone advised to change medication? My Doc said he was going to do a check.
I finished treatment with Sovaldi and Olysio two weeks ago and feel like I did around my 8th week of treatment when I thought about quitting. My arthritis is worse than ever and I'm having a really hard time moving, but what's worse is the nausea and fatigue. I feel worse than I ever have and don't know if i...
I have a procedure involving an endoscopy and a colonoscopy on Thursday and was feeling down because of things at work and the effects of the treatment which seem to have hit me hard. But today we have booked to go to Sorrento next Monday for a week and will see Vesuvius and maybe Pompeii. It seems like i...
Hello All, I am new to this forum. Though I have been following this forum from long time never became a member. But today this possible good news made me to become a member and share this with you all. As you know there have been news about Sofosbuvir being launched in India through generic manufacturer...
Hi again, my husband has Hep C, and it not getting treatment because his only liver enzyme anomaly is an ALT of 54. Medicare won't pay. His two gastros have recently stopped using Sovaldi due to too many relapses. So he waits for something else or liver failure. He's 60 y.o. In the meantime, he had a t...
I've just completed my treatment using Olysio & Sovaldi and am Hep C free. I have a friend who just found out he has it also. I heard of a new drug that does not have as many side effects and after effects. I believe the new drud starts with either an H or an N. Does anyone know what I am talking about?
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Using Ledipasvir/Sofosbuvir in Cirrhotic, Treatment-Experienced GT1 Patients: 12 Weeks With Ribavirin or 24 Weeks Without?
Using Ledipasvir/Sofosbuvir in Cirrhotic, Treatment-Experienced GT1 Patients: 12 Weeks With Ribavirin or 24 Weeks Without?
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The five week PCR showed virus detectable but not quantifiable. So it is still there, but the quantity is to few to quantify, i.e., put a number on. I started at about 3.7 million. So the treatment appears to be working. I have had minimal side effects. Kind of surprised at such quick results, but very...
Hello Everyone, I started my third week of Harvoni today. I'm grateful to be on this medicine and I know how hard the earlier Hep C treatments were on the patients. I've been fortunate in that I haven't had the Harvoni headaches, but the exhaustion has been very noticeable. I'm good for a few hours in...
Its never good news when one of your drugs turns out to have caused the death of a patienteven if there are extenuating circumstancesand thats certainly the case for Gilead Sciences (GILD) today.Gilead SciencesGileads shares have dropped 1.9% to $100.36 at 10:30 a.m. after the biotech giant discl...
Does anyone know at what point the relapse window closes? 3 months, 6 months, 12 months. I have a doctors appt tomorrow and will find out the results of my 3month blood work. I am being positive, but, still have some fears lurking in the back of my mind. Since I am geno 2 I have no other options availabl...
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