Thanks Zhuk, Yep, you were right, MRI was easy and kinda cool ! The Doc there said it was the "Rolls Royce of MRI machines with the Luis Hamilton of operators scanning me" .
Debs, it was a pretty amazing experience. This new technology is pretty awesome, so glad I did this. It was part of ongoing trials for this new diagnostic for liver disease. I will post more about it in the week as I just got home and am pretty tired, but amazingly the (top) Doc said my liver is in pretty good shape considering . I saw a full colour scan of my liver (spleen and other stuff too!) - Never knew how far round to the left the liver went and how big it is! Getting my report in writing next week and will post more, but at this point in time, my liver is looking pretty healthy for someone with HepC. Just need to kill of those little ******* virus left.
LMS reading of 1.5 (range between 1-4 anything over 2 pretty concerning) and get this..... Also had a fibroscan to compare which has gone down to a frankly mind blowing <6 !!! I actually can't remember the actual figure, I was so stunned, but it's either 5.2 or 5.6 !!! All I can think is, healthy diet, no booze etc but my instinct is the meds helping liver function has caused this.
Pretty emotional really after the cirrhosis scare - Got a bit teary talking to the lovely Doc .
I need VL to go down to UND now for things to be much more hopeful - let's see what happens hey.
Big
to all .
(edit) Fibroscan machine showed an 'accuracy of reading graphic" (something else I learned) - It was pretty accurate
GT1a Dec14 F2/8.7 VL 900000-2.5M
Jan16 Hepcivir-L MonkMed/Redemption
Baseline: VL 913575 Alt 76 Platelets low
Wk2 VL1157 Alt 23
DET Wk 8 VL 32 Alt19 'In the slow lane'
June16 Fibro 5.7 F0/1 LIF 1.5
Wk 11 VL<12 Alt 13 Det/Unq
Extending tx 12 wks Mylan Sofo/Dac MonkMed
Wk 14 VL <12 Det/Unq
Wk 16 VL UNDETECTED
Wk 22 + 4 Wks Sunprevir FixHepC
Wk 24 UNDETECTED Alt 13
Wk 12 post tx SVR12 Wk 26 SVR24
Thank-you Tim, Dr Debasis @ MonkMed & Dr Freeman @ Fix HepC