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Thank you.

I look forward to having my VL UND soon just like you.

hopefully, your UND will last until SVR12.

Welcome Jay Kim

Hello

Our labelled price is only 1080 USD for 12 weeks treatment course of Twinvir. Foreign patients will get some discount if they buy directly from Incepta's head office.
Parvez

Thanks Tina.

congrat on your SVR2 again

thanks for letting me know, Parvez.

I will let korean patients know that they can get medication for more reasonable price

Where there is a will, maybe there will be a translator!
m

I had a blood test last saturday on day 15 of sofo/ledi(twinvir)

hospital told me results would come out tuesday, which is tomorrow.

getting nervous..

hopefully, VL is much lower than pre-tx.

p.s.
when you refer to VL, is IU/ML or copies/ML?
In korea, we have two result number for HCV.

In the west IU/ml is the common thing we use (except where it is Hep B and both IU and copies get reported!!!!)

Provided that the units are known conversion is easy.

And regardless of units BIG NUMBER -> small number is good!

Appreciate it, Dr. Freeman

And one more question for Dr. Freeman.

In Korea, It seems that the minimum VL the blood test machine can detect is 40copies/ML.

Does blood test machine in AUS detect lower than 40 copies/ML?

is <41copies/ML same as UND?

thanks in advance

Hi Jay,
I am in the U.S., but most the reading minimums I see are <12 and <15.
I would image that is where your v/l will be in a couple of weeks. Maybe even UND.
Right now. Two weeks into tx, a <40 wouldn't surprise me at all.
Good Riddance!!
m

wish korean VL machine to be more sensitive.

thanks Mike.

J

Hey, when its not there, you can't count it!
The big deal right now is to make certain the vast majority of the virus is gone. That means you are really responding well to treatment and will be looking at a SVR 12 rate in the upper 90% range.
m

jay kim wrote: And one more question for Dr. Freeman.

In Korea, It seems that the minimum VL the blood test machine can detect is 40copies/ML.

Does blood test machine in AUS detect lower than 40 copies/ML?

is <41copies/ML same as UND?

thanks in advance

Hi jay kim,

Do you know which test is being used to give you 40 copies/ML? If you do then the minimum level can be converted to iu/ML.

My lab tests for the presence of the "live" virus (qualitative) first. If that test shows "positive", then I am "detected" and they go on to measure the amount of virus present. (quantitative)
If no virus is detected, it shows a result of "negative" or Undetected.
No need for the quantitative test because there is nothing to count.
m