Okay so I'm kicking myself because I read an awesome article this morning about Gilead's new Triple (6 week regimen) and can't find it now. The nuts and bolts were that Gilead is in the early clinical stages to test Harvoni combined with another drug called "Vedroprevir" and a small sample...
Hello there! 23 days since last dose! And yes, feeling somewhat better (all in my mind?) I will admit that the 'heebie jeebies' i was feeling during treatment have subsided; but the restless legs that became unbearable during treatment (and only rarely before) are still present. And, although I th...
i started treatment 2 weeks ago. I was on my dads insurance until i turned 26 which was a couple weeks ago. Insurance told me they would cover costs until the end of treatment since I started before the policy officially ended. I went to refill my script and they told me they won't do it, and are no longer co...
So I got my latest Bloodwork tests back, and I'm unsure of what to think. Platelets seem low at 82 and AFP is high at 11. The rest looks ok. Any ideas of what might be going on? Isn't AFP a tumour marker And why is my liver profile normal? Isn't 82 quite low for platelets While off treatment for so long. Also h...
Australia's rejection of costly new treatment sofosbuvir a 'death sentence for Hepatitis C sufferers'By Deborah Cornwall Liver experts at a conference on the Gold Coast have been warned Australia is on the verge of a catastrophic death spiral from Hepatitis C. Dr Miriam Levy, the director of gas...
OK, called cigna today and Harvoni has been added to their formulary with pre-approval, she only said preapproval required degree of fibrosis, liver biopsy, and some other things, you have to meet certain criteria but it did not list the exact criteria or fibrosis level... she had no link for their d...
HOPEFULLY I WILL BE STARTING HORVANI SOON MY INSURANCE IS UHC AND MY DRUG PLAN IS EXPRESS SCRIPTS GOOD LUCK TO YOU ALL -- Edited by ss on Thursday 6th of November 2014 07:03:14 PM
So, let me begin by saying that YES A BIOPSY HURTS!!!! people said it will be fine, I believe I will. But, The pain involved with this is unreal. The Dr. went between my ribs? Not sure what's up with that but he did. So, I am having extreme Chest pains and when I cough I feel it in my Liver area. My liver area hu...
I just got my 12 week after treatment viral load results: SVR!!!!!! I'm cured!!!!! I'm crying as I type this. Gender:female genotype 1a compensated cirrhosis treatment: 12 weeks Sovaldi/Olysio VL at start 2 million Comments: blood platelets have been around 60 since last spring, they are up to...
Hi,This is Bashar from Dhaka, Bangladesh. This is about my wife as she got test results of anti HCV ab sample rate 2.69 & cutoff rate 1.00. It came out when I took her into a doctor for feeling a lump in he breast. The doctor refer her to a prof. of gastroliver. I take the appointment of that prof. I feel v...
Well hello all, long time since I posted a friend K reminded me so sorry not to have kept in touch, They said it would take a year and they were right everything back to normal, kidneys recovered and put a little weight back on. feeling fairly well. Almost finished with divorce she had walked out with 8 wee...
i took my ribiviron and sovaldi this morning, I don't think I ate enough because I became super sick and I think I threw up my meds, how bad is that? I didn't have an appetite so I tried forcing some cereal down but don't think it was enough. I still feel super nauseated
Hi , And now for the cherry on the psycho sundae , drum roll please. The cyst on my pancrea has grown and is now being referred to as a pancreatic mass. Going to referral on the 11th: review ultrasound to see if I need a biopsy again. And also going back to the GI on the12th. I got sort of pissed and asked the d...
Hi all,Yesterday, I had my final two implants fitted ( teeth 15 and 16). The older members may know I lost 5 teeth due to my 4 courses of Interferon treatment. These have now been replaced, so I can enjoy my steak again, smiling broadly. The last two were tricky as I needed bone grafts around the titanium s...
im doing ok took that blasted tape and bandages off... i did take it easy at work on thursady and friday i just sat in the chair in the office down stairs and playd games on my phone and read a book on my phone....... feeling like it never happened but the stitches on a wound with a diameter of your pinky wide...
i just started treatment 2 weeks ago w the interferon, ribiviron, sovaldi combo for genotype one. I've been experiencing awful aches. I'm hoping someone here can help w a question I have. Is anyone taking any pain medications with this same combo? Will opiate based meds interfEr with treatment?
So..... Idecided that coffee, whether pretty or not, just isn't for me. That first day..... Seemed like I couldn't fall asleep... Oh that's right it's cause I COULDN'T fall asleep... (lol) I stopped taking the barbiturate that was Rx. I figured if its blood thinning they want.... BAM!!!! You g...
a pneumothorax is a collapsed lung it happened monday at 9am and i continued to work till 12 pm... then i took a nap from 2-5 then at 5 as i was supposed to clean i went to the hospital insted and they told me i had air in between my chest wall and lung causing wrap around pain from my upper chest and back...
I have a pnuemothorax in my right lung I'm still recovering from since yesterday feeling better will go into more detail when I get back to the flat/apartment :) hopefull gettin out tommorow or thursday....
My name is Joshua Schlabach and I am producer at ShareWIK Media Group which is a health and wellness company in Atlanta, Ga. We are producing a number of video segments for HealthGrades's Personal Story Network focusing on Hepatitis C and how HCV really isn't a death sentence. I would love to talk to so...
Hi , does anyone else get annoyed when people say ," But you dont look sick." There was a time when strangers would walk up to me and ask are u ok ; I was really sick before I was Dx back in early 2000s. Now after having gotten to the F4 mark, my friends and family all say, but u dont look sick and ex...
Hi everyone.. I just got my test results in from 6 month hep c test and its HEP C PCR, QUANTUndetected, Undetected - See Below IU/mLUndetected I have cirrhosis, compensated so hopefully i will get better. Heres blood test results from 4 months post treatment which are better then my previous test res...
On May 7, 2014 the manufacturer of Olysio (Janssen) submitted a supplemental new drug application to use Olysio in combination with Sovaldi. Up until now the use of S/O has been off-label. I just got an email update from the FDA that indicates the FDA has approved the S/O combo. It states in pertinen...
ANYBODY HAVE THIS INSURANCE UNITED HEALTH CARE ? WAS IT APPROVED WHEN YOU ARE TREATED ON HORVANI I FOUND AN ARTICLE THAT AS OF OCTOBER 15 2014 UHC HAS APPROVED WITH CERTAIN CRITERIA - ANYBODY KNOW ANYTHING ON THIS?
I have just been screened for the phase 3 sofosbuvir/gs5816 for 12 weeks or sofos and riba for 24 weeks for geno 3. i will know in the next 2 weeks when my blood work is back if I am accepted or not. i was told be the doctor that gilead does not want our viral load disclosed until 12 weeks into the trial, does an...
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