I went for a scan today; last one 6 months ago was not good and luckily a few days later I saw a Greg Jefferys story, found my way here and now have about a month to go of 24 weeks. It was great to go see my specialist of 20 years, virus undetected, I've lost 20 kg, blood tests great etc. He was happy, having not been a believer at first, and has this excellent new machine. You can really see inside, The kidneys are almost like photos, it could check portal veins etc really clearly (all good) easily measure spleen (reduced). And it produced quite a detailed visual report with hot to cold zones red- orange- yellow- blue mapping the fibrosis areas. Mine is unevenly scarred, so I have quite a big section of blue area which is working well, and a red crusty part. It has me thinking, if any rogue resistant virus is still hiding, it will be in them thar hills.
I had thought I heard last time the fibro score was 13, pretty high. Today he was congratulating me on nearly halving it- down to 22- it was 40 last time! Glad I didn't know, but no wonder I feel better. Even if it turns out there is more treatment to go, (genotype 3 F4 etc is pretty stubborn) it was very satisfying to see pictures of how far back from the brink my liver has come in 6 months.
Genotype 3 30 years, 2x treatment interferon/ribavirin non responder. Cirrhosis 17 years. Fibroscan, decompensating, 40 down to 22 by 29/3/16- now down to 6.5, normal, no cirrhosis. Started Buyers Club Sof/Dac 14 Nov 15. SVR 12 29/0716