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Karen


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Hi Bill-You sure have had your share...so great to see such wonderful news.  Keep it coming..

 



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Geno Type A1- VL 16.2m - F1-F2 Moderate Fibrosis - Started treatment 4/16/13 Sofosbuvir/Ledipasvir 6 months -  UND week 4 (5/14/13) - EOT 10/1/13 - 12wk blood draw 12/20/13 UND - 24wk/final blood draw March 2014
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Hi Bill,

Great results and you must be stoked about your scan. Your platelets are excellent.  I'd check with the Hepatologist about colchicine.

That's an unusual range for the ALT.  Most Labs are standardized at 5-40 U/L.  Could you just check to make sure that's not the GGT. Cheers.



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Geno 1b, IL28B CT,  x3 prior relapser,  ex-cirrhotic, 75 yo, did 48 weeks with Victrelis/Peg./Riba.  VL 1.28m at start, UNDET. at 8 ,12 ,16 ,24 ,30  and 48 weeks.  EOT 15 Feb 2013 , UNDET. at EOT + 28 weeks. SVR!  Still Undet. at EOT +5 years

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Hi Bill, great to see your blood counts rising so well now, and your liver enzymes dropping.  It all looks just as it should be! 

And how fantastic that your liver is still free of cancer, you have many good reasons to celebrate and be happy! 

The gout must be very painful and I hope it eases off soon.  Not sure what to say about the colchicine, although maybe it would be best to follow your pharmacist`s advice until you`ve double checked with your liver doctor or surgeon. 

All the best to you, keep moving forward!  smile



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Jill 

(71 yo, lives in UK)

Was Gen 3a, 

24wks Peg Ifn/Riba, Sep 2010 - Mch 2011

UND @ Wk.4, UND @ EOT, 

SVR Nov 2011 --> Still UND @ EOT + 4 yrs.

 

 
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de ranger,

looking quite nice to me.  you did it  and should be quite proud after all you've been through.

2014 is looking to be the year you can get your life back together again!!!! congratulationssmile

sandy,ucbgal



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Hey Bill

That is some very impressive increases in just a months time.

Very nice recovery and fantastic news on your liver scan.

In the next six month hopefully your other issues will resolve.

Keep on truckin 

matt



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61 year old Geno type A1, F4 Cirrhotic, started 24 weeks on Harvoni 12-17-14 ,EOT-5 week = UND, 8-31-15 =UND , SVR-24 Baby YES! 
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Since I am being followed for liver cancer (surgery 7-2012) as well as having finished the 48-week triple therapy (Peg, Riba, Vict) on 11-29-13, I have sometimes almost overlapping blood tests.  The following are tests given for the end of treatment (11-29), in preparation for another liver scan (12-17), and four weeks after end of triple therapy (12-27).  Besides feeling like a pincushion, this does provide some information as to post-treatment recovery.  Here are some significant results:

Test

Normal range

Result 11-29

Result 12-17

Result 12-27

WBC

4.8-10.8    K/uL

      2.2

   4.7

   5.3

RBC

4.70-6.10  M/uL

      3.15

   3.88

   4.34

Hemoglobin

14.0-18.0  g/dL

    10.9

 13.4

 14.4

Platelets 

130-400    K/uL

    76

 186

 182

AST

15-37        U/L

    61

   63

  39

ALT

30-65        U/L

    61

   61

  47

  

Hair is starting to fill out a little, fatigue is mostly gone, insomnia and nausea gone, terrible taste and dry mouth gone too.  Depression not so much and blurry vision has improved.

Now if I could only get rid of this darn gout.  It popped up the week before the end of treatment and I have had it for the last 5 weeks.  It has gone from one big toe to the other and into the foot.  Not very comfortable as in difficult to walk.  Hep Dr and Liver Surgeon both deferred to my GP who had prescribed indomethacin for me in the past, but when I told him it no longer provided relief, he wrote a script for colchicine. 

The pharmacist did not want to give colchicine to me after I explained I was treated for HCV and had surgery for liver cancer.    So I thought I would ask here. (I am Child A)  Can I take this without adverse liver consequences?

Update: the 18 month post-surgery liver scan has shown my liver is still cancer-free.  YIPPEE!!! Happy New Year!



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1a, 35+ years; liver cancer survivor 7-2012 surgery; triple therapy 12-2012 (Interferon, riba, victrelis) - end 48-week treatment Nov. 29, 2013 - post tx 24 weeks undetected - SVR.
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