Congratulations Panthyra on starting your treatment, that’s really great. Within a week of starting, most people will feel better than they have for years.

After starting treatment, little monitoring is required. The most important test is the viral load test : ‘HCV RNA PCR (Quantitative)’. It’s recommended to have it at 4 weeks into treatment (the virus should be undetected by then), then again at 12 weeks, and finally at 24 weeks (If you are undetected at 24, you’re cured).

Your body does not typically need supplements. A normal diet consisting of a variety of foods is sufficient. While most supplements will be harmless, and will not interact with your medications, they have not been studied, so it’s recommend you do not take them during treatment. If you insist, take them at the opposite end of the day to the time you take your medication.

Hi Panthyra
Very exciting news congratulations on starting your Harvoni.
I took the 12 week course of Harvoni when these meds pretty much first became accessible here. Also had a very low VL, although I often read it’s irrelevant all is speculation imho. I cleared very very fast. My labs are amazing. I thought it might be useful to read my signature at the bottom of this page or my blog or parts of it anyway, it’s called Ariel Takes the Plunge. I mentioned assay ranges and so on, describing any side effects and also the happiness of being UND at last.
It will be such a momentous day when you get the UND on your labs and start to get awesome LFTs as well. The health that starts is instaneous I think it was for me despite the dehydration I experienced. That was just the nasty virus being nuked anyway in hindsight!
With getting labs, I had a poor range reading from a lab so I sourced another lab which had a much more update assay range and offered PCR RNA immediately as I came back with a < result at Day 25 but no Real quantifiable test. I quickly had that done and was UND as I suspected. I hope this gives you a boost into this tx it’s marvellous to be on your journey to wellness and I will be waiting for your posts about the treatment and clearing the virus Congratulations again Happy Splashes Ariel

Hi Sunflower Wow great news to be on Day four, you are certainly in the right place here to access all the good stuff, I will be waiting to hear your results with you soon too and wish you the very best for the first bit of tx, that’s pretty much the roughest bit I thought; if you could even say it was that hard! Drink heaps of water, keep active as possible…..all the information is here om this forum anyway, So a Big welcome form me and wishing you well, happy Splashes from Ariel