Thanks Deb,
No, it is not up North, it's down here, only a bit north of London.
I did not do anything different or special then just simply asked if he would help by monitoring me as I sourced & paid for my own meds & will be treating soon.
I did say they are generic meds but are safe & have been tested & gave the link to the blog on this forum & mentioned Doc James & his trials.
I did not expect anything so was very nicely surprised when he agreed to it. I did it all by email.
Maybe try to do the same with your consultant? you never know,
I also am not the first one here to be monitored on NHS, there is another member on here who've done almost the same, although I understand she initially saw the Doc privately but later had all her tests done on NHS.
My plan was to source the meds first & then organise monitoring, even privately if everything else fails or to use the private blood test clinics to do my own test, plan A,B,C.
Did you decide to treat with the generics as well?
Geno 3, Fibro 8.7 pKA, tx experinced in 2005 - Peg/Riba, relapsed.
Started tx 1/12/2015 with Indian Sofo & Chinese Dac.
5 weeks result all normal, ALT 18 - down from ALT 73 at the start of tx.
5 weeks HCV PCR RNA - UND. - down from 2 ML
9 weeks HCV PCR RNA - UND.