All of this makes a lot of sense, Price.
Haven't talked about 4 week labs much, but the progress that has been made is rather incredible. Several areas that were abnormal have just snapped back into the normal range like a rubber band. One of those is Glucose, which had been on the high side for years, now solidly in the normal range, along with just about everything else.
Still have a slight calcium deficiency and had started taking Vitamin D to see if that will help.
More than anything, I am beginning to see effective DAA treatment as a sort of panacea for HCV sufferers. This stuff is a real miracle! It is becoming clear to me that this disease is so much more than just a liver ailment. It really appears to be an entire package - a syndrome if you will with the HCV virus at its core, wreaking absolute havoc throughout the entire system.
I have to think that if the health care system looked, really looked, at the big picture with regard to the cost/benefit relationship of curing HCV Syndrome, the standards for initiating treatment would have to change dramatically. However, it is clear to me that this information has not been compiled, cross referenced and presented in an effective way to the medical community, because most of them don't seem to have the slightest idea about it. The level of ignorance is tragic, and astounding!
Failed Interferon 96', G1a, VL = 9 - 5.5 Million, F3/A3, AST 111, ALT 190, Generic DAA treatment Sof/Led (Mylan - India MYHEP LVIR) - 8 June, 2016
2 Week Results 20 June, 2016 AST 19, ALT 32
4 Week Results 06 July, 2016 AST 22, ALT 30, VL = 35
6 Week Results 20, July 2016 VL only = HCV RNA Detected, Non-Quantifiable <15
8 Week Results 04 August 2016, Labs, LFTs Normal, VL = UND
12 Week Results 31 August, 2016 LFTs Normal, VL = UND
EOT + 4 Weeks, LFTs Normal, VL = UND, "SVR4"
SVR12, 21 Nov 2016. CURED!!!