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Those are awesomely normal results, STL! It’s a special day when your healthcare team is able to tell you, you’re finished and give you your walking papers. Congrats!

The ones I had through the hospital for my Hep are a different lab so by the lab my doc uses I havent had a blood test in 2 years. I wont bother asking again till next year now. Since they didnt check any of that at SVR guess i was just curious....Liver nurses final words were you wont need to see us again unless your liver enzymes go up again.

Beauty LFT's STL!

I was just going to ask why (after your UND lab in OCT) only (aprox) 4 months later your doc gave you LFT's again? 

Good tho, i'm glad he did. 

We will always welcome good news!

How is every little thing over your way, how are you feeling nowadays? C.  : )

  i love boringly normal

Thanks everybody,

You are such a lovely group of people. I have sure appreciated your support. I am so grateful to have achieved this so relatively quickly and easily, compared to some of us who went through so much more than I did to achieve the same thing. So very fortunate indeed. Wonderful Magic Beans and a wonderful support crew.

Not Detected ....music to our ears

are you enjoying your new status?

Nothing better than reading it "in type", "in black and white", for yourself - those lovely words staring back up at you from the page, attesting to your good fortune!, I never did like the verbal-only's (although those were nice and necessary and appreciated), i did not completely rest nor celebrate, until i saw all my results "in writing" with my very own beady little eyes. I have a physical paper file and within it is lives everyone of my officious "on paper" lab reports! We are all so happy for you.  C.

Damn straight!  There ain't no more.  Now get on out there and live your HepC free life!!!!!  It just keeps getting better.

All the best from

Very happy Cheddy

Hey STL,

Thanks for the details. Glad you are home from all that moving work and busy-ness. Good to know where people are in their improvements after cure - it is still very early days for you, but I am glad of that little bit of hopeful sounding relief you are getting now, mainly just knowing you are now forever-free of that vile health-robbing virus, and perhaps gleaning some good effects from being virus free and perhaps gleaning some good from the sups as well. We shall see how you get to feeling better, but you do need some more time and distance between your old virus-packing self and this new virus-free version of you, to see what benefits befall you because you are hepcfree now. Just imagine all that busy work we were forced to do, for so long, our poor old bodies working overtime, always trying to mop up that hep c, imagine how much more lovely spare time our bodies have now, to concentrate on other more ordinary, but important repairs to deal with. 

Surely being hepcfree is ONLY going to help you going forward. 

Good for you that you are still achieving such good exercise effort despite discomforts.

Funny your story about getting expensive sups on-line shipped to you in Aus from abroad! Me too, haha, from my side of the pond, in Canada, paying big bucks to a sup company in New Zealand! (they wanted US dollars), so converting from Canadian dollars, I found it expensive too! We should shop local eh?! But same as you, i couldn't seem to find what i wanted in the homeland.

Know that I am waving my magic long and healing deep-sleep wand over you tonight.  C.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kgYquX6H8g

Thanks Tig, I saw you were on hols so no prob. I am grateful for the chance of a Hep Free life. Thanks to my wonderful magic beans.

Oops, I see I left this hanging several days ago. I didn't hit submit. ...

Oh boy!  You are seeing the light!  This is a really a great confirmation. 

How incredible it is that the last 6 months can become a blink.  They are so intense when you're moving through all of this. You did it!

Yes, yes, yes - The road to good health is ahead!!!

I am genuinely happy ever time I hear "CURED."  It's like hearing it for myself over and over again.  I feel it very personally.

Thanks you for being a friend along the way, by sharing your experience and helping others through.  I continue to enjoy being an advocate, although I did take time away to shed the identity of a HepC victim, and to resume life without it. 

Keep up apprised and updated. CONGRATULALTION!!!!!!!!!!!!!

STL,

Did you say what your SVR12 LFTs were? (aside from that beauty UND!).

So, you are trying the SAM-e, I guess it's way too soon to discern if you feel any dif?

And is that correct, that you said you have found the mag chelate IS helping? (to decrease your leg cramps and pedal neuropathy)?? If so, I am VERY grateful for that! It was sounding quite dreadful what you were putting up with a while back, rolling about in heating pad and bed in distress and forcing yourself out for walk-abouts on your painful feet. 

How MUCH better are some of these painful leg cramp and foot neuro-pain things now?

Gee, I hope you steadily start to feel more and more improvements - my improvements were slow to come. I am very glad I am STILL improving!, sometimes it is my partner who has to point out some small improvements that i haven't even really noticed much at first, then i see he is right, they can accumulate quite slowly in being noticable, but they ultimately do keep occurring, in fits and starts, and sometimes in tiny increments. Some pains I packed for decades vanished, the profound debilitating fatigue has improved so drastically (in comparison to where i was!) -  there were not enough hours in the day to sleep and crash-nap! The large or small changes to the good had no rhyme or reason to them, sometimes things took a long time to resolve. But I am really liking this, that even now, so long after my cure i am still finding things that are improving!  I am hoping you will see more improvements too. 

Let us know how you are making out and how you are feeling. C.

Hip Hip HUZZAH !!! Best news ever.!!!

Do let us know how you are feeling as time goes by.

Your new avatar is wonderful, you hold the light of hope and wellness. Blessed healing to you.

Iris

YAY 

congrats , enjoy your good health.

yes, it was a great journey we shared to the UND

and compared to some treatments this was indeed short and easy for what it did... even with the hard times, and those memories are fading away too... or i've lost my mind. hahaha

it was nice to have a treatment buddy, i'm glad we met here and found out we started on the same day. 

the memories i remember are the precious memories of support and love from our community here

and yes, it keeps getting better now

My Nurse just rang me as soon as my results were in with the news.

The Virus is

UNDETECTED

You are cured  ..........

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so happy for you STL, yay! another geno3 on the cured list

Congrats SeeTheLight so happy for you!

CONGRATS SEE THE LIGHT!!!  

Super happy for you!

STL good call getting the 400 MGs. Take them on an empty stomach and give them a chance to build up in your system, it takes about a week. See if you notice a difference, I sure did. I was taking 800 mg per day. They go on sale for buy one get one free at the pharmacy near my house several times per year and I take that opportunity to stock up. They used to say that SAM-e was good for the liver which is why I started taking it in the first place a while ago. But I really noticed a big improvement in my hand pain from typing all day at work so that became my primary reason for taking it. Hope it helps you

5, thanks for the tip on the zinc orotate. Will look into that at SVR12. 

Hi Hoodie, funny you mention SAM-e the first I saw mention of that one was on here. I now have a box of 400mg ones. Didn't know if I should get the 200s or the 400s but thought more is best and maybe I can break them in half if I need to and it will be cheaper than 2 months supply of 200s, I now see they cant be broken anyway so heres hoping. I found them very hard to source here but I found but as usual Mr Ebay helped lol. I was waiting for SVR12 to try them. Hope I will know quickly if they help so I can order more if required. As you say they are very expensive, particularly on top of my other sups. Prescription meds are subsidised here but alas for supplements we are on our own. I am only a pensioner so don't want to be wasting my money on supplements that do nothing of course.

Thank you all for your kind thoughts its lovely to have you following my journey.

5, I know how quick you got yours. That was amazing. My nurse is watching for the results. She knows I am keen to know if it has worked. She will ring me as soon as she hears. She only works Wed Thurs Fri so if they don't come through by tomorrow, I will be waiting till at least next wed. I hope she was wrong with the up to two weeks thing but will have to wait and see. I did sign on for 6 months of not knowing so by my reckoning they have under two weeks to go ROFL. I don't have an office I can call. I will have to wait on her call. She is my contact through my treatment provider. My local GP will get the results also. If she gets them I will get a phone call inviting me to come in for them, but she wont give out results over the phone and I am 160km from her (100 miles)

I do try not to worry about failure but it is hard at times when I really don't feel any different than before treatment. Wont be long now. Sometimes it is hard not to think that even with the high success rate, with my luck, I will be the rare failure. At least I am busy here at the mo, so I'm not home alone dwelling. Small mercies.

STL

Yep, we'll be celebrating.  There's nothing quite like the actual SVR12 report, for sure (big time).  At last you will be starting your HepC Free life. 

What does your doctor have to say about your neuropathy?  Did you have it before treatment? If not, it may resolve as you recover from treatment. If so, continue to pursue help whether it be medical or through supplements.  Keep massaging for increased circulation.

Sleep and muscle issues can both be helped by taking calcium magnesium.  There are powdered mixes that taste just fine in your continued water consumption, especially before bedtime.  Also, electrolytes can get depleted with massive water intake.  Since you are finished with treatment, you can start adding stuff until you find the right combo.

After all, you have to be ready for a happy dance when those tests come back!

I hope you will be doing something to celebrate. Whether it's big or small, do something meaningful to mark the distinction between past illness and future outlook.  You're on a whole new leg of your journey.

I can't wait!

Hey STL,

I already know, we’ll be celebrating your SVR this week!

The magnesium helps my neuropathy, as does the gabapentin I’ve been taking for years. I have a lot of cervical and lumbar spine damage, so I’m never sure what’s going to hurt next, lol! It’s amazing how some of these mineral supplements work. Often better than all of these prescriptions combined. I hope you find the right combination soon. I believe with time, SVR will help to reduce a lot of these problems. Even with my self destructing spine, I have noticed improvements. We all have reason to expect improvements. I like believing that is possible for everyone!

Hi Harry,

Lovely top see a fellow Aussie on board. From what I understand the Epclusa should not effect your immune system as it only targets the Hep. As you can see I am a fellow Aussie. 66 years old. I had my flu shot early in treatment - guessing with emphysema you would have too. I reached EOT+12 weeks yesterday and had my SVR12 test done. I was not tested during treatment, as we don't do that here, makes sense to me, since earlier testing has no bearing on the end result (but not for others here )

Hoping I will hear that I am finally free of this thing soon. If it hasn't worked we will try something different so its not the end of the road. I am geno 3a.  I do not have Emphysema Harry, but constipation did plague me even after EOT. It was different as with my diet I do not normally suffer. Seemed my colon was drying out even with all the water I was drinking. At times I found the need for ememas. Things seem to be getting back to normal in that department finally thankfully.

Anyway Mate, your on the home straight so all the best, on your journey.