Hi,
I am in the U.S. and have two docs monitoring my generic treatment-my local, long-time GP-who diagnosed me, and my GI, who has written me 3 scripts for HCV treatments , which she fought like hell to get approved for me, but were denied after exhausting the appeals process. When I told them my plan to import ditectly from Mesochem, the GI said fine, as long as she could monitor the tx. So my GP orders the blood work, checks it out and sends the results to my GI several hundred miles away. We did a pre test and will do a 4 week, 12 week,12 week post and 12 month post tests.
Now, my GI said the tests were for two reasons:
1. To see if the virus is being destroyed effectively
2. See if these really new and really powerful drugs are having some strange impact on something else, like glucose or potatsium levels, for example-all those things they can check that have norms.
That's what they told me the monitoring was all about in MY situation: F-1, Tx naive, good health, vl-1.6 million, 62 yo.
Good luck!
Mike