Hello Guys, Tomorrow will be my last dose of the 6 month Sovaldi & Ribavirin. Praise the Lord. I am planning on having a flu shot on Monday. Is this okay? I'm pretty sure that it will be okay, but I don't want to mess anything up at this juncture. Opinions and experience please. Thanks!
The "old" SOC's continue to benefit and hold hope for the co-infected!"Adding telaprevir to pegylated interferon and ribavirin for the treatment of acute genotype 1 hepatitis C infection in HIV-positive men reduced the duration of hepatitis C therapy by half for most patients a...
I have the opportunity to change my insurance from BlueCross Blue Shield to Aetna. Has anyone had either one of these companies deny thier treatment? Any thought on high deductable vs low deductable? Also both companies use Expressscripts for perscritpions - so does the healtcare company pay for t...
I got a call from my doctor with EOT +26 week results (I had to cancel my 24 week appt.) and I'm still UND-all lab values in the normal range. He used the c word for the first time, "cured". Hooray!!! We were chatting about the Harvoni release and its impact on treatment. The doctor said that if I...
Hello Everyone! It's great to be part of this group. I hope this post doesn't violate any forum rules, but it is extremely beneficial for the community. I'm a CNN producer on the show, Inside Man, looking to tell a story about Hepatitis C treatment. We would like to speak with patients who are in stage 3 o...
I am totally thrilled and psyched. I have been set up for another VL in 12 weeks and then an annual VL after that. The treatment was a walk in the park. I started to feel better within weeks and had my energy back after about a month. The difference was night and day! I still get fatigued now and again (I have...
For more than a year, I have a deep pain in my right armpit that comes on for several days at a time then goes away for awhile. Does anyone else have this symptom?
I talked to someone from the Abbvie company who is running the clinical trial I'm on, and asked her if there were any foods I should avoid while on treatment. She said not to eat grapefruit or drink grapefruit juice. My nurse told me now that I started treatment, to get a new toothbrush, nail clipper...
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I have done some poking around about this on the web but haven't found anything conclusive. I'm wondering if Malcolm or other knowledgeable folks on this site know the answer to this. I'm wondering what a person's lab results for all the typical tests one would get for HCV or other liver disease woul...
This will be a thread leading up to the first FDA approved all oral HCV treatment for GT-1'sHopefully it's contents will be the what, how, why, who and when of getting ready for treatment with Gilead's Sciences Sofosbuvir & Ledipasvir. Please join in as their is much to get ready for.matt-- Edit...
Hi all, Just reporting in. We went to Mt Sinai on Sept 11th for Tom's CT liver scan and he is still cancer free. It was also one month to the day that he started the ribo and solvaldi combo. Dr in city was happy to hear that Tom started the hep c treatment but was surprised his gastro didn't wait for new tr...
"While Gilead has contended that the total price for a course of treatment with a Sovaldi-containing regimen was a modest increase compared with previous standards of care, this is an invalid argument based on the incorrect premise that these regimens were appropriately priced to begin wit...
i havent drank since 6-4-14 next Gastro apointment is December 1st.... thats 6 months... at that point you can apply for DAA.... if denied obviously i will challenge or say sumthing like If my liver isnt damaged enough i will get it there it may take 10 or 20 years but it will get done.... beating Hep C i...
Is anyone else here on or has been on the Ledipisvir trail? I am on the Led/sofo trial without riba for 12 weeks..5 days in. Im looking for info please on how you felt on it..side effects. I have headaches, a bit dizzy. I feel like I am here but not here...feel weird...does this make sense? Thank you for a...
Hello I'm new to this site, hope I've posted in the right place.. I'm starting the Merck C-Edge trial on Monday. I'm also on a methadone program. I know I'm lucky to have a chance on the trial, but I haven't been on any other medication for the hep c. So I'm worried about the unknown of being on a trial and the...
Here are values I get off the patient portal. I don't have the complete lab result printout yet so I'm not sure if both of these dates are done by the same lab. I don't think so. I'm not good at reading these so you all help me here. RBC's and platelets look pretty low to my untrained mind. How low will my Dr le...
17 weeks EOT on Sovaldi and Olysio virus is still Not Detected!!!!!! I'm keeping my fingers crossed as I relapsed on Peg-interferon and rib after being clear for several weeks EOT in 2005. Does anybody know what the stats are for relapsing on Sovaldi and Olysio after being clear 12 weeks EOT? Gary
Hey guys, I haven't been in the forum for quite some time. My life was turned upside down. My mom got sick in SC, so I had been going back and forth from NY since May. I had to leave school and basically put my life on hold. I have since moved to SC to help care for her along with my daughter. On Sept 18, she passed...
Does anyone know the side effects of ABT-450/r/ABT-267 With ABT-333 AbbVie has a trial going on now and a good friend of mine has been asked to come in for screening visit. Please, any info on this woulk help. Thanks RC
I have no idea when my insurance company will have Harvoni available for me to take, but I have a discount coupon all printed out and sitting in front of me just ready for my Dr. to provide the prescription! I have CDPHP (NYS employees plan HMO)I imagine when they provide it, Harvoni's cost for me will be...
hi. ive recently been given my results im 1b genotype...and 10 weeks pregnant..i got my HCV RCN VIRAL LOAD results back and my doctor said she had no idea what it meant and told me the people at liver clinic will tell me the results but im probably not seeing them till after the baby... '''?? can anyone h...
Labs came in today, EOT +12 VL...UND! I must be living right having gotten this far. I was rather concerned about being hard to treat, liver Xplant '99, compensated cirrhosis F4 fibrosis, and grouchy. The only fly in the ointment is the level of immune suppresant is rather low and I may have a little...
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