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...
Here is a link to the full prescribing information sheet for Harvoni http://www.gilead.com/~/media/Files/pdfs/medicines/liver-disease/harvoni/harvoni_pi.pdf-- Edited by Scruffy on Friday 10th of October 2014 08:46:32 PM
New member..started treatment 13 days ago Interferon , Sovaldi , and Ribavirin Bad headaches and no appetite..been drinking lots of water.. I have missed 4 days at work..Dr. told me to take it easy until Monday.. Anxiety is coming over me...
I think we can show an SVR in all the major genotypes now. lets see, Geno 1a's include Basse,D-Day's coming,Tig,Maddie,Kellie,Dee,Suzi, Pizza, Geno 1b's are Pi, both hubby and wife, Peter,Gater and Mallani, Geno 3a's myself and smccune, and I think Marktrux is a geno 2.
Following FDA approval today of Harvoni, Gilead's newest--and first all-oral--treatment for hepatitis C, AHF and other drug pricing advocates, blasted the Bay Area drug maker for the $94,500 price for the drug, $125 above the $1,000 per pill Gilead currently charges for its current Sovaldi form...
Two things have brought me back to this forum today:1. FDA RESPONSE TO GILEAD'S APPLICATION FOR THE 1-DRUG REGIME: I have been scouring the web to see if there's any news on the FDA's response to Gilead's drug application for the one-drug pill. So far nothing. On their website they only show approva...
More states have enacted restrictions on Medicaid coverage of Sovaldi. The count is now up to 70% of states and can be expected to increase. Below is a state-by-state overview of those that have restrictions to limit the tx to the sickest. Expect to see similar prior authorization requirements fr...
BMS has withdrawn its NDA for asunaprevir. As you may recall the BMS combo of asunaprevir/declatasvir was scheduled for approval in December. BMS does intend to pursue the approval of declatasvir alone, however. This is actually good news because Declatasvir has been used in combination with...
I got the link to THIS article from the Hepatitis Central news letter: Over 8 percent of hepatitis C patients taking Sovaldi (sofosbuvir; Gilead) are failing to complete their full, 12-week course of drug therapy, a dropout rate roughly four times that observed in clinical trials. They are wrong...
Well, I have just finished week 8 and my 4 week test was UND. Things have now settled down and my bilirubin level is down. I am trying to get my Child-Pugh level down through diet and healthy things. Hope everyone is well. Nirmale x
Just got my PCR results back today for 5 weeks post treatment. Still UND! I know the 12 week mark is the official SVR mark, but I already know I have this thing beaten.
Not sure if this is news to anyone here, but I thought it was very interesting in light of my recent SVR4 achievement. :) The short of it is, if you're undetected at 4 weeks after a Sovaldi based treatment regime, you're very likely to be SVR at 12, and especially 24 weeks. In fact there was no real differ...
The French are not happy about Gilead's pricing and they intend to do something about it. "The government will selectively tax drugmakers when the total cost to the state from their hepatitis C drugs exceeds a certain amount each year, "http://hepatitiscnewdrugs.blogspot.com/20...
Before I started therapy, if I ate a big meal of any type, 12 hours later it would still be sitting in my stomach or at least it felt like that, but now if I eat a large meal 4 or 5 hours later I'm hungry again. This is a major change for me. My ALT has dropped to 25 and my viral load is < 15. Consequently, I find m...
Hi. I'm into my 10th week of the latest Merck Study with MK-5172 and MK-8742, now called the C-Worthy trial. Is anyone else here doing that trial??? Or did the same trial earlier this year?? I was <25 weeks 1 and 2 and UND weeks 4 and 8. I am on the arm for cirrhosis with ribavirin. I would love to hea...
I have a good bit of Ribavirin because my doctor cut back on my rib an the pharm just kept sending it ,im through with treatment an doc said he will not retreat me with rib an peg pen again if I relaps ha ha! what do I do with these extra meds id hate to flush them if they could help someone.One the same token don'...
Do you know any research about the results after treatment with Sovaldi? There are a lot of people treating with Sovaldi, I suppose that the cure is 90% - 95% , as clinical trials said. But I would like to know if anyone is doing research on that. Thank you friends
Due to a mix-up (again) my lab order for the 4 week test was botched, so I finally went in yesterday which was day 31 of my treatment and the viral load is not ready--of course but should be ready by Friday. This time it is being processed by Quest Diagnostics labs. However, I received my ALT/AST level and c...
does anyone know if us people who failed solvaldi with interferon and rib will be able to take the new treatment? -- Edited by JLynch30 on Thursday 25th of September 2014 06:26:21 AM
I have been looking at so many figures for HCV medicines recently, and I wonder how many of the relapses that patients have are actually reinfections? I suppose we could reinfect through a razor or a toothbrush, but some of us who use drugs probably reinfect through the hypodermic and obviously that...
Completed S/O 3 weeks ago. Some days I feel tired and i get a little shaky if I don't eat every few hours. I feel the same if not worse some days than before I started treatment. Could it be the virus coming back? How am I supposed to be feeling?
Hi all, does anyone have that pulsing fluttering feeling around BG or Liver. Like bubbles bursting. Not painful, just worrisome. Been having them several times a day 24/7. Not sure which Dr, to call . The GI who referred me to the infection disease for med tx , or the med tx Dr. I just left a message at the G...
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