Ariel takes the Plunge

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28 November 2016 at 7:37 am #24520
Dr James
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@fixhepc
My thoughts are with you and your daughter at this time. Wishing her a quick recovery.

YMMV
28 November 2016 at 7:41 am #24521
Fara
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@fara
Dear Ariel, … So sorry to hear about your daughter;…my hopes and prayers are with you and your daughter.

You’ have been such a positive support on this forum with your responses

and lovely pictures…Wishing for health and happiness for you and and your family. …….Fara

HCV since 35-40yrs., GT 1a , Dx 2004; VL 4-5 mil, F2-3
Tx sof/led started 3/4/16
4wks VL <15
9 weeks VL UND, ; Alt-15,Ast-13
16 weeks VL UND Alt-20, Ast-22;
EOT 24 wks UND
SVR 4 UND
SVR 12 UND, Alt.15, Ast. 17
SVR 24 UND
1 December 2016 at 5:57 pm #24548
Life
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@life
Hey Ariel!!

I’ve been reading all your posts, have been away for a long time!

Damn, girl! Sorry to hear all this!!

My prayers are with you! 2017 has to bring some good!

Kisses and hugs!

Life
3 December 2016 at 1:56 am #24575
Ariel
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@ariel
Dear Life, Fara, Lynne, LG, Fitz, Sven, CJ, nads, Sabre, Coral and I hope that I haven’t left anyone out Thankyou for the kindness
Coral I send you big love for taking time out to think of us while you go through another tx I am very humbled by your kindness. I am thinking of you always and wish you the rightful cure you deserve.
Thanks for the loving wishes for my child everyone it’s going to be a long inpatient stay, but enough details here just thanks so much for your kindness.
Me? I’m recently diagnosed with severe TMJ and have meds if they aren’t working in a couple of weeks then check up for something else. However the symptoms are classic apparently. Not that I had ever heard of TMJ but it sure is a beasty to have. It presents with similar symptoms to mild stroke, numbness in one side of face, hot nerve type pain that radiates, extremely sore neck and around the ear to the eye, migraine and if it’s even possible increased tinnitus! The tinnitus was intense before but for the past three weeks it’s ridiculous!
Not whinging please don’t take this as seeking sympathy but it may be something to be mindful of for those of us who have had a lot of invasive tx, who knows where this came from huh!
The meds regime for it is just pills haha more pills just when I had kissed them goodbye apart from the BP pills which I need now also after so many tx experiences and I am aware others are also in this category.
Well the suns finally out, the surfs up, there’s no wind for a change and I may get respite from the four hours of travelling to and from the hospital today. I think someone else is doing the caring today it’s Saturday here in Oz.
I might just get lucky and get a few glassy waves yay! Flippers and fins crossed.
Sending my love and happies to all
Thinking of our GT3 friends who are retreating or waiting.
Goodvibes from Ariel
Here is the sunset on the way home from da big smoke after hospital visit isn’t it inspiring
11 January 2017 at 11:53 pm #24951
Ariel
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@ariel
Good morning from Australia
A year ago today
One year today the 12 January 2016 a parcel arrived
Inside this parcel was the medicine that has saved my life
The process was easy
The treatment was easy
The FHC team at Tasmania were professional
Dr James was available for any issues I only needed bp advice personally.
I “sacked” the public hospital here that had treated me badly.
My GP and I followed the recommendations on FHC and we did all my PCR RNA and VL and LFTs etc privately at labs sourced because they had the most accurate assay range.
By Day 25 it was obvious I was cured.
I cannot stress enough
If you are unsure about your HCV and what to do get yourself treated
If you can’t find help it’s right here
If you want cutting edge latest tx come here
If you want real support come here
If you want hope not fear come here
So Thankyou Doctor Freeman and Greg and all at FHC
The 12th January is a special anniversary I hold dearly and thank you for making my life easier. No trips to India were needed no trips to Alcura in the UK….nothing fancy or complicated at all!

All the plans I was setting up in desperation after my experiences were pffht off in a moment, when I found I could access my cure here at FHC so easily, so professionally, and surrounded by supportive people with knowledge.
Ariel
12 January 2017 at 1:20 am #24954
beaches
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@beaches
What Ariel says.
I have read testimony after testimony on this site relating the same experience.
Don’t wait, your life depends on it.
Nobody deserves Hep C.

Genotype 1a
Diagnosed in 2004, had HCV for all my adult life. Until 2016!!!!
Harvoni treatment, started 19 March 2016
4 week results Bilirubin 12 down from 14 pre treatment,
Gamma 25 down from 52, ALT 19 down from 63, AST 19 down from 47,
VL <15 down from a lazy 6 million or so

EOT Results
Bilirubin 10, GGT 18, ALT 19, AST 21, VL UND

12 Weeks post EOT
Bilirubin 11, GGT 16, ALT 22, AST 20, VL UND
Cured baby
12 January 2017 at 5:10 am #24961
fitz
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@fitz
Ariel wrote:

I cannot stress enough
If you are unsure about your HCV and what to do get yourself treated
If you can’t find help it’s right here
If you want cutting edge latest tx come here
If you want real support come here
If you want hope not fear come here
So Thankyou Doctor Freeman and Greg and all at FHC

Ariel

Amen.
12 January 2017 at 6:44 am #24963
Sven
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@sven
The beautifully written personal statement above brings goose bumps up on my arms, that was from the heart straight up. I’m with you even on the landing!
In good health and may God be with you forever.

Contracted HCV 1980’s
Geno Type 1a
F3 ( doc says once treated I’ll be F2 maybe F1)
Meds shipped 6/17/2016 arrived early 7/2016

Viral count – 3,471,080

4 week quantitative bloods: August 17, 2016. I have been diagnosed as <15 (told undetected)

8 week quantitative bloods: September 14th. I have been diagnosed as <15 (told undetected)

11 week PCR RNA Qualitative bloods: September 26th 2016 – Undetected

December 19th 2016: Cured!
Viral count: zero!!!
2018 viral count: still zero!
Cured!
13 January 2017 at 11:36 pm #25000
Ariel
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@ariel
Dear peeps
Thanks for reading and supporting my statement about getting tx asap and about how easy and professional this ordering and treating business is.
The last three days have been great for surf and I have paddled every day in a row which is remarkable because well, if you could see the carcass that I was from peginf and how hard I have had to work to rebuild what was left of me and my life.
I’m a cheerful person whose profession was robbed by peginf riba for no reason at all and I have got through all this time. I’m private about my old status because of my career. And I am a mum of adult kids.
Anyway
It’s up to you
At the end of the day we need to become our own messiah in this game of Russian roulette

So here’s some pretty pictures of our changeable Summer waves and weather anyway to celebrate freedom
PS I still need naps
Ariel
14 January 2017 at 2:47 am #25005
beaches
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@beaches
Nice. All the forecasts and video feeds for Manly indicated calm and gentle conditions this morning. They lied.

Genotype 1a
Diagnosed in 2004, had HCV for all my adult life. Until 2016!!!!
Harvoni treatment, started 19 March 2016
4 week results Bilirubin 12 down from 14 pre treatment,
Gamma 25 down from 52, ALT 19 down from 63, AST 19 down from 47,
VL <15 down from a lazy 6 million or so

EOT Results
Bilirubin 10, GGT 18, ALT 19, AST 21, VL UND

12 Weeks post EOT
Bilirubin 11, GGT 16, ALT 22, AST 20, VL UND
Cured baby
14 January 2017 at 8:07 am #25019
fitz
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@fitz
Ariel wrote:

Dear peeps
Thanks for reading and supporting my statement about getting tx asap and about how easy and professional this ordering and treating business is.
The last three days have been great for surf and I have paddled every day in a row which is remarkable because well, if you could see the carcass that I was from peginf and how hard I have had to work to rebuild what was left of me and my life.
I’m a cheerful person whose profession was robbed by peginf riba for no reason at all and I have got through all this time. I’m private about my old status because of my career. And I am a mum of adult kids.
Anyway
It’s up to you
At the end of the day we need to become our own messiah in this game of Russian roulette

So here’s some pretty pictures of our changeable Summer waves and weather anyway to celebrate freedom
PS I still need naps
Ariel

Ahhh! I want to be there right now. Toes in the surf, warm breeze, washing over me, a cool beer in my hand – watching the surfers riding the tide…
14 January 2017 at 8:29 am #25022
beaches
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@beaches
so, when ya coming? hint – January is hot. Very hot.

Genotype 1a
Diagnosed in 2004, had HCV for all my adult life. Until 2016!!!!
Harvoni treatment, started 19 March 2016
4 week results Bilirubin 12 down from 14 pre treatment,
Gamma 25 down from 52, ALT 19 down from 63, AST 19 down from 47,
VL <15 down from a lazy 6 million or so

EOT Results
Bilirubin 10, GGT 18, ALT 19, AST 21, VL UND

12 Weeks post EOT
Bilirubin 11, GGT 16, ALT 22, AST 20, VL UND
Cured baby
14 January 2017 at 8:53 am #25024
Gaj
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fitz wrote:

Ahhh! I want to be there right now. Toes in the surf, warm breeze, washing over me, a cool beer in my hand – watching the surfers riding the tide…

I’m just up the road and today maybe not so much.

beaches wrote:

January is hot. Very hot.

Umm….Melbourne, you know how it is!

G3a since ’78 – Dx ’12 – F4 (2xHCC)
24wk Tx – PEG/Riba/Dac 2013 relapsed
24wk Tx – Generic Sof/Dac/Riba 2015/16 relapsed
16wk Tx – 12/01/17 -> 03/05/17 NS3/NS5a + Generic Sof
SVR7 – 22/06/17 UND
SRV12 – 27/07/17 UND
SVR24 – 26/10/17 UND
14 January 2017 at 9:30 am #25027
fitz
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@fitz
Can I sleep on your couch? That’s my budget these days
14 January 2017 at 9:38 am #25028
beaches
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@beaches
fitz wrote:

Can I sleep on your couch? That’s my budget these days

Hey Fitz we would have space for you

Genotype 1a
Diagnosed in 2004, had HCV for all my adult life. Until 2016!!!!
Harvoni treatment, started 19 March 2016
4 week results Bilirubin 12 down from 14 pre treatment,
Gamma 25 down from 52, ALT 19 down from 63, AST 19 down from 47,
VL <15 down from a lazy 6 million or so

EOT Results
Bilirubin 10, GGT 18, ALT 19, AST 21, VL UND

12 Weeks post EOT
Bilirubin 11, GGT 16, ALT 22, AST 20, VL UND
Cured baby
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