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globetrotter


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What a lovely feeling to have.....and after 40 years you deserve it!!!!



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51 year old Geno type 1A,  possibly 30 years HCV. HBV detected but currently dormant. viral load over 1,000,000. Started triple with Telaprevir Nov 2013 for 48 weeks.

VL week 4 -179,

VL week 12 -50. 

VL WEEK 24 -UND
zavr


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SO happy for you, Dee!!! Let's make it contagious!! 

  

  

 



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Gen 1b, 33yo. Started 12wk Viekira Pak on 2/28/2015. 

Baseline: VL=517K, AST=34, ALT=56. 

Wk4: VL=<15, AST=16, ALT=14.

Wk8: VL=UND, AST=17, ALT=14.

Wk12: VL=UND, Fibroscan: 3.4kPa, F0.

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Dee738


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I'm two days  into week 5 of Sovaldi/RIBA treatment, and I'm noticing a general lifting of negative mood. I just feel more "glass half full." 40 years in a bad mood. Do I get to be happy starting in my 60th year? I'll take it!

Check out this 2009 study on emotional distress and HCV:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19676008

 

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Female, age 59, genotype 2b, contracted in 1974 or 1975, diagnosed 1993. Treatment naive, fibrospect 0-1, persistently normal enzymes, started Sovaldi + ribavirin February 1, 2014

 



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