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Today there was a parcel in my letterbox, it was the ribavirin! I was surprised that I didn't get notified that it was coming. Won't be long to wait now for the others I guess.
Can anyone tell me if dose instructions are included in the Sofosbuvir and Ledipasvir package when it arrives?

I take one capsule of each a night (Led/Sof)......(I'm not on Riba) good luck with your treatment....

Hi Magpie,

The dosing should be on the containers similar to any other pharmacy supplied medication. The Sof and Led are one each per day, with or without food, whenever best suits at approx. the same time each day.

The Ribavirin is per Dr James post but take those with food, preferably with some fat content.

James-Freeman-facebook wrote:
Ribavirin is given in 2 divided doses - one in the morning, one at night. Because it comes in 200 mg capsules it looks like this:

< 75 kg - take 2 x 200 mg in the morning, 3 x 200 mg in the evening (or 3 in the morning and 2 at night)
> 75 kg - take 3 x 200 mg in the morning, 3 x 200 mg in the evening (or 3 twice a day)

Hi Magpie - Here are the Sofo/Led 'instructions' :

www.gilead.com/~/media/Files/pdfs/medici...rvoni/harvoni_pi.pdf

Hope your meds arrive soon? Which make are you taking?

Best wishes for an easy and successful treatment

Good luck Magpie with your tx
Wishing you a good outcome

Londongirl,
not sure what make it is...does that mean where the meds come from?

Do you know the name of the medicine you are getting Magpie? Or yes, maybe where it came from?
I have looked in my Hepcivir-L (made by Cipla) box and yes, there is a folded sheet of instructions in each box with the bottle . The link above is the official Gilead info.

It's called Harvoni and I think it comes from China.
Thanks for the link too Londongirl

Hi Magpie,

I suspect from your other posts that you have authorised the Buyers Club to source the meds on your behalf? If so then you are most likely getting generic APIs sourced from China, tested and encapsulated in Australia. So you will receive the two active ingredients used in commercial Harvoni but as two separate capsules rather than in a single premanufactured pill.

Assuming the above is the case then they work just as well as branded Harvoni and the instructions that LondonGirl supplied are still valid. So very much a case of "same difference".

And YAYYY!!! My second twelve weeks of treatment just showed up at the front door.

Huge thanks to Dr James and all the rest of the team at FixHepC and the Buyers Club who make this all possible.

Gaj

Hi Gai
Glad to hear the system is going smoothly for you.
Yes I agree, thanks to all at the Buyers Club!

Did you get a tracking number before the meds arrived?

Hi Magpie,

I did, but on this occasion it arrived about 10 mins after the meds.

Either public holiday or clunky Internet connection?

I just read a post about stigma and it reminded me of the last occasion I was asked if I knew how I got the virus by the gp that was writing my script for Harvoni.
I replied how does my answer effect you writing my script?
it didn't.
I guess it's just human curiosity/noseyness.

so glad when the meds come and the virus is gone....

I love surprises! Guess what was sitting in my mailbox this morning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Omg so happy!
Thankyou buyers club

Hooray