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  • #8800
    Avatar photoAlsdad
    • Guardian Angel
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    @alsdad
    #8802
    Avatar photoSirchinenge
    • Guardian Angel
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    @sirchinenge

    I was gutted when I read the news he’d died yesterday I’m a huge fan since I was a kid
    his music was the background of my early years.

    I thought he looked incredible for his age it came as such a shock as he’d kept it to
    himself how ill he was.

    Very,very sad.


    Sob/Dac from Oct 29 2015
    Geno 1b
    Fiberscan 9.9 Pre treatment
    Fiberscan 7.4 week 10
    VL 1.3 million pre treatment
    Week 2.5 VL 96
    Week 5.5 VL 17
    Week 10 VL UD
    SVR 3 UD
    SVR 16 UD
    Cured:
    All liver functions in normal ranges.

    #8810
    Avatar photomgalbrai
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    @mgalbrai

    Bowie-2.jpg
    David Bowie
    The Starman has headed home


    Curehcvnow@gmail.com
    http://forums.delphiforums.com/generichcvtx

    G 1a F-1
    Started tx 10/23/15 (Meso sof & led) ALT 48 AST 28 v/l 1.6 mil
    11/17/15 4 wk lab ALT 17 AST 16 <15
    11/18/15 Started Harvoni
    12/16/15 8 wk lab ALT: 15 AST: 13 V/l UND
    1/14/16 Fin. Tx
    7/07/16 UND SVR 24

    #8811
    Avatar photoAlsdad
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    @alsdad

    Just found this musical tribute from Rick Wakeman on the beeb. It’s kind of fitting to me because the first album I ever bought was a David Bowie one, and the first live gig I ever attended was Rick Wakeman.

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p03f8qql

    #8817
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    @re_roll

    His concerts were fantastic. I don’t remember much at the time :whistle: , but that was what I was told.

    RIP, David.


    contracted Gen 1a in the 70’s, dx in 2007…ast 27 to 35…alt 43 to 96…vl 1.2 mil to 8.6 mil.
    biopsy F-2 (2012)..pre tx results 1/23/16 ast 32, alt 46, vl 3.1 mil
    tx started 2/11/16…. lab results 2/24/16 ast 18, alt 18, vl <15 IU/ml
    28 days later………….lab results 3/9/16 ast 21, alt 21, vl UND
    56 days later………….lab results 4/6/16 ast 20, alt 22, vl UND
    139 days later………..lab results 6/29/16 ast 28, alt 30, vl UND…EOT
    SVR24

    #8819
    Avatar photoSirchinenge
    • Guardian Angel
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    @sirchinenge

    There a BBC doc with him Bowie on The Cavet show circa The Young Americans
    its an interesting watch ,you’ll see a young Luther Vandross on backing vocals too.

    There is some amazing archives of him recording that album………


    Sob/Dac from Oct 29 2015
    Geno 1b
    Fiberscan 9.9 Pre treatment
    Fiberscan 7.4 week 10
    VL 1.3 million pre treatment
    Week 2.5 VL 96
    Week 5.5 VL 17
    Week 10 VL UD
    SVR 3 UD
    SVR 16 UD
    Cured:
    All liver functions in normal ranges.

    #8821
    Avatar photomgalbrai
    • Guardian Angel
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    @mgalbrai

    September 24th, 1972, Memphis, Tennessee
    The best damn concert I have ever experienced.
    Same as above-I wish I could remember more of it…..
    He was a genius and left the world a better place.
    Mike


    Curehcvnow@gmail.com
    http://forums.delphiforums.com/generichcvtx

    G 1a F-1
    Started tx 10/23/15 (Meso sof & led) ALT 48 AST 28 v/l 1.6 mil
    11/17/15 4 wk lab ALT 17 AST 16 <15
    11/18/15 Started Harvoni
    12/16/15 8 wk lab ALT: 15 AST: 13 V/l UND
    1/14/16 Fin. Tx
    7/07/16 UND SVR 24

    #8822
    Tommy
    • Guardian Angel
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    @tommy

    http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/01/story-behind-david-bowies-unusual-eyes.html?mid=full-rss-scienceofus
    The Story Behind David Bowie’s Unusual Eyes


    Genotype 1A
    ALT 473
    AST 226
    Virus Load 3,119,030
    Results as of May-2016
    5 week viral load/undetected as of 12/02/2016
    Liver Biopsy Results from Feb 2013
    Portal/Periportal chronic inflammation and mild interface hepatitis (Grade 2)
    Focal Lobular chronic inflammation (Grade 1)
    Portal/Periportal fibrosis (stage 1-2 trichrome and reticulin stains utilized)
    Negative Iron stains.

    #8829
    Avatar photore_roll
    • Guardian Angel
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    @re_roll
    mgalbrai wrote:

    September 24th, 1972, Memphis, Tennessee
    The best damn concert I have ever experienced.
    Same as above-I wish I could remember more of it…..
    He was a genius and left the world a better place.
    Mike

    At least you remember the date and where you were……I saw him in Tucson
    with my then GF who I remember started to walk toward the stage with her
    arms open wide. Security got her before she could reach the stage. She loved
    him and was mesmorized by the song that he was singing. Naturally, I do not
    remember. As the saying goes ” If you remember the 70’s, you did not have a
    good time”. As you state, he was a genius and a showman.


    contracted Gen 1a in the 70’s, dx in 2007…ast 27 to 35…alt 43 to 96…vl 1.2 mil to 8.6 mil.
    biopsy F-2 (2012)..pre tx results 1/23/16 ast 32, alt 46, vl 3.1 mil
    tx started 2/11/16…. lab results 2/24/16 ast 18, alt 18, vl <15 IU/ml
    28 days later………….lab results 3/9/16 ast 21, alt 21, vl UND
    56 days later………….lab results 4/6/16 ast 20, alt 22, vl UND
    139 days later………..lab results 6/29/16 ast 28, alt 30, vl UND…EOT
    SVR24

    #8945
    Avatar photoLondonGirl
    • Guardian Angel
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    @londongirl

    So very sad Alsdad & Sirch. Been a fan since very young & earliest albums, could hardly bring myself to reply here at first I was so upset.

    He gave us so much.

    Mick Ronson guitarist from Spiders from Mars also died young from liver cancer and Trevor Boulder bassist from SFM died of Pancreatic cancer young too :-( Not forgetting Lou Reed who Bowie produced – Liver cancer / HepC .

    The epidemic for baby-boomers is rearing it’s torturous ugly head I fear.

    The need to test people born pre 1965 has never been greater.

    God bless Mr Bowie


    GT1a Dec14 F2/8.7 VL 900000-2.5M
    Jan16 Hepcivir-L MonkMed/Redemption
    Baseline: VL 913575 Alt 76 Platelets low
    Wk2 VL1157 Alt 23
    DET Wk 8 VL 32 Alt19 ‘In the slow lane’
    June16 Fibro 5.7 F0/1 LIF 1.5
    Wk 11 VL<12 Alt 13 Det/Unq
    Extending tx 12 wks Mylan Sofo/Dac MonkMed
    Wk 14 VL <12 Det/Unq
    Wk 16 VL UNDETECTED
    Wk 22 + 4 Wks Sunprevir FixHepC
    Wk 24 UNDETECTED Alt 13
    Wk 12 post tx SVR12 Wk 26 SVR24
    Thank-you Tim, Dr Debasis @ MonkMed & Dr Freeman @ Fix HepC

    #8956
    Avatar photoAlsdad
    • Guardian Angel
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    @alsdad

    I’ve started looking nervously at photos of Iggy. He looks fine, but then again, so did David Bowie.

    #8958
    Avatar photopoodle
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    @poodle

    So if DB died of liver cancer are we all thinking the obvious? . So many famous people have hep c I always feel its such a shame that more isnt done to promote the cause through fame and its power. However its very personal as well …the dilemma


    Geno1a 35years fibrosis 2 or 3 different results from different hospitals ??
    24weeks mesochem sof/led as unsure of fibrosis status.
    currently UND. No bad side effects
    Have svr12 … waiting for svr 24
    I now have SVR 36 weeks.

    #8959
    Avatar photoAlsdad
    • Guardian Angel
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    @alsdad

    Lou Reed died of hepc-related liver failure. 80% of liver cancers are caused by hepb or c. David Bowie made no secret of his drug usage in the first half of his career (I believe the move to Berlin, that spawned the ‘Low’ and ‘Heroes’ albums was, in part, to get away from the drugs scene).

    #8963
    Avatar photoSirchinenge
    • Guardian Angel
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    @sirchinenge

    Yep, Bowie was actually insane before he left the US if you watch the interview on
    the Dick Cavet show before he left the US its clear he was out of his mind I don’t
    believe he was a IV drug user.

    No, I don’t think Bowie had Hep C if he did I can see why he’d say nothing the man was not someone who
    wanted to share that part of his life with the public.

    Bowie stopped using prior to Berlin and yes Low and the three albums in that followed
    all came about as he stopped using.

    He got into AA around the 80’s he was clean for at least 30 years or more.

    I met Iggy a few times in Ireland in the late 90’s he looked as well as someone like him can:)


    Sob/Dac from Oct 29 2015
    Geno 1b
    Fiberscan 9.9 Pre treatment
    Fiberscan 7.4 week 10
    VL 1.3 million pre treatment
    Week 2.5 VL 96
    Week 5.5 VL 17
    Week 10 VL UD
    SVR 3 UD
    SVR 16 UD
    Cured:
    All liver functions in normal ranges.

    #8974
    Avatar photoLondonGirl
    • Guardian Angel
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    @londongirl

    :-(

    David Bowie didn’t look fine at all recently, can’t bear to watch that film of him lying in that hospital bed, great song but so painful, visually I can’t watch it.

    ( edit) Yep Sirch, Iggy still rocking :-)


    GT1a Dec14 F2/8.7 VL 900000-2.5M
    Jan16 Hepcivir-L MonkMed/Redemption
    Baseline: VL 913575 Alt 76 Platelets low
    Wk2 VL1157 Alt 23
    DET Wk 8 VL 32 Alt19 ‘In the slow lane’
    June16 Fibro 5.7 F0/1 LIF 1.5
    Wk 11 VL<12 Alt 13 Det/Unq
    Extending tx 12 wks Mylan Sofo/Dac MonkMed
    Wk 14 VL <12 Det/Unq
    Wk 16 VL UNDETECTED
    Wk 22 + 4 Wks Sunprevir FixHepC
    Wk 24 UNDETECTED Alt 13
    Wk 12 post tx SVR12 Wk 26 SVR24
    Thank-you Tim, Dr Debasis @ MonkMed & Dr Freeman @ Fix HepC

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