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Hi All, I just found out I have Hep C and not the gall bladder issue they thought it was.. I found out when I had to go to ER for Gall Bladder.. This was kind of the beginning of a whirlwind for me ( and I am sure others). I am not sure which type or damage etc etc. I do NOT like my Drs. They seem totally disintere...

Starting tx next week (Inf, Riba and Sovaldi 12 wks)

im not even on treatment not untill october or november but a slightly alarming readout is 36.2 L 39-80 Neutrophil count platelet count is 143 out of 140-440 ammonia plasma was 43 H 11-35 thats why i mentioned lactoluse because i hear it sheds ammonia but maybe these numbers arent that are not...

Hey all Ran across a small article from the Hepatitis Central web site on Pomegranates, which caused me to dig deeper to find the authors of this study from India and the paper that was published in the Nature.com web site. Here is a small excerpt from the article and to link below to the full article A vas...

Hi all, Ribavirin will still be around for a while, and it's an interesting drug. It has a multi-pronged action on the HCV, and this is still poorly understood. The correct dosage has been debated for years, but most agree weight-based Riba is the way to go. That means an average male will have 1,200 mg/...

4 week post EOT labs show undetectable!! Does anyone know what my chances of relapse are? I'm positive about the outcome, but won't be satisfied until the 12 week test.

Hi all, I'm new here and I'm Josh from North Carolina. I have strain 2 of Hepatitis C and my GI doc prescribed Sofosbuvir and Ribivarin. A company called Avella Speciality Pharmacy in Arizona filled my medicine and it was totally free through a nonprofit organization (which I'd have to find the name of...

I made it through. Last INF shot was 5/2 and last sovaldi & ribavirin was May 8th. Got the results today from last Friday's viral load test. Still undetectable. WHICH MAKES IT ALL SO WORTH IT. I will go for 12 week after EOT blood work the beginning of August, then 24 week beginning of Novembe...

Hi Friends, I just got encouraging news to share. My 1st 1 month (edit: after finishing 24 week) treatment results still show undetected. I realize I am not "out of the woods" yet, (need more tests and time to pass) but I am grateful for the 1st bit of positive new to share. During TX I had to dro...

Ya I pay attention to what you all say and based on that when i get my results on monday the 11th. 8-11-14 for my biopsy I shall broach these talking points......... at my next Dr. slash Gastro appointment... ya i will tell you my results and anything else of revelance she says...she seems to be in the loo...

Got my PCR today, 132k IU/ml. Knew something was wrong when i saw high ALT numbers. So i am now off to diet and ultrahealthy life until new DAAs that work on GT3 arrive. all the best to all folks still fighting, waiting or SVR relaxing :)

I am currently on the S/O combo, no Riba. I have two weeks left of treatment. For the first two months I took my meds at 8:10am every morning with food. In my last month I have been extremely busy with work and family and have not been as good about taking my medicine at the same time of day. I always take i...

Just got all my medication today. Decided to start treatment next week though, bygetting interferon shot every Friday, and I am travelling this Saturday. I have only noticed that Ribavirin capsules that pharmacy gave me for 3 months have expiry of October 2014. If I start taking drugs on 15 August...

Congradulations to all those who just recently achieved SVR and to those of you who not so recently attained it ...... I know for most of of you and including me here in the short future the treatments can often be brutal...... so i have alot respect for you guys fighting the good fight and holding on...

I guess I could call this my State of the Liver Address. lol/ The liver core biopsy, specimen B, contains two cores of hepatic parenchyma and one small core fragment of benign smooth muscle.No significant steatosis is seen.The portal areas are expanded by a mild chronic inflammatory infiltrate, pr...

Next week I will be in the post treatment arena I have deceided to delay the EOT Test for four weeks, later. This should expose any relapse. see you at the Post. /We are all in this together Keep your stick on the ice.;Red Green Show;

Hey Yall' Is anyone having the above sides? I started having these painful pimples on my stomach a couple weeks ago. They have no puss inside, but they hurt like the dickens. Today I noticed painful lymph node under my right jaw. What's up??? Somebody please give me some info...thanks.

This campaign for Gilead to reduce the costs of Sovaldi sprung up fairly recently. The National Coalition on Health Care is primarily a lobbying group funded by insurance companies. http://www.csrxp.org/ Two US Senators are on board, a Democrat and a Republican. Here is the demand letter the...

My 4 week labs aren't bad but my wbcs dropped to 1.54. My doc wants me to lower interferon to 140mcg and go from 3 rib in am n 2 at night to 2 in am 2 at night. I'm scared to lower my dosages. I relapsed last time on beceprevir lowering my rib. Anyone have any input please

Nezam Afdhal, MD, director of hepatology at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, recently stated that "there is no advantage to treating with sofosbuvir/ledipasvir for more than 12-weeks." "Responding to a question about whether there was any benefit for extended treatme...

So...I was thinking,,,,dangerous...I know....uncle mo.....a famous race horse was retired as a three year old because he had hepititus. im going to assume.....(yes, I know....and ass of you and me).....cows can be infected with hep.....can it be transmitted to people that eat the meat of an infe...

Hi all, Here's the latest Newsletter. Some observations: The suggestion to limit caffeine to decrease headaches and insomnia is interesting, in view of a recent post about coffee consumption. Do your own research! Mixed cryoglobulinaemia is certainly found in some HCV patients. However, the va...

think i weigh in at 59.5 kilos which is like 130 to 135 lbs.. so thats accuarte checked in at 7am and was total done by like 1015 am like a little over 3 hours... had me get naked and put on one of those gowns... hit a vein with lidacaine then inserted iv drip 1 liter water ... made me pee alot later...... um the O...

I "transplanted" this Chatbox message posted by Sheila, who is a new member. I did this because we encourage members to start a message thread in one of the Forum's sub-sections, thus giving other members an opportunity to convey information and comments. After my hep c treatments end...

Hi all, With the increased availability of on-line portals for test results and Tazkat's recent post, it's worth revisiting what your report means. There's a 'Sticky' on this, but some things change. Most Labs now use a PCR Test from Roche or Abbott. The TMA tests from Quest and Labcorp do not seem to b...

I'm feeling fatigued, have major abdominal pain issues and moderatly depressed, so I'm not in a good mood to do 'search' very much. What I would like to know is would it be a good idea to have decaying teeth (probably 4) pulled this coming Friday 8-1-14. I have read that decaying teeth can be a bad thing wh...

Hi I will be starting tx next week. has anyone gone through tx while using weed? Thanks in advance for help on this one -- Edited by hrsetrdr on Saturday 2nd of August 2014 09:53:13 PM -- Edited by hrsetrdr on Saturday 2nd of August 2014 09:56:01 PM

What is HDV? Resource Update: Hepatitis Delta VirusHow current is your knowledge of the hepatitis delta virus (HDV)? inPractice® has been updated to include:New data on the correlation between HDV RNA levels and the development of cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma Long-term follow-up o...

In cases where the virus has been cleared during treatment, would it be reasonable to conclude that from that point the liver is no longer being damaged, and is in fact already undergoing regeneration ?

this Friday I will take my shot number 8 of 12 an I got a call from my dr saying im testing negative for hep C I have been taking solvaldi ribavirin an inerfuron since jun 11 an now its gone I must complete my treatment for 5 more weeks an then come back in 6 months to see if the virus has returned or if im hep c-ure...

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