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  • #4209
    Avatar photoChester
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    @chester

    Now you see them.

    Now you don’t.

    So that’s it. Other than 3 lonely little Riba waiting to be taken with dinner, I’m done.

    Thanks to everyone for their support especially my doctors, Richard Ralph and Mark Wilson. And to Doc James and all the other health professionals who have seen these drugs for the breakthrough they are and responded by being reminded why they became doctors and nurses in the first place instead of being cowed by Big Pharma, government and their own fear of the unknown.

    But especially, thanks to Greg Jefferys for being so clever and brave and big hearted and for giving me my life back (and to Google for being so damn good at what you do and allowing me to find him when no one wanted to tell me more than a few precious tidbits of information about him!)

    Whither now?

    To infinity and beyond!

    Well, at least, SVR hopefully.

    Roll on, 12 February 2016.

    #4210
    Avatar photoklhilde
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    @klhilde

    Hey “Chester”
    I showed this to you while I was staying at your place. I didn’t tell you I had English lyrics for it.
    Here they are.
    ____________________________________________________________________________________

    Now for just what purpose is it I am living?
    Cloudy days, all a haze that rolls on by, ya …

    This weak malaise, this sense of pain
    What does it gain, and where does it get me?

    Can’t drown myself in yesterday
    Today I write a dream
    Confused as it may seem, ya ya

    All the pretty twinkling stars that shine before the dawn
    Now have they really gone?
    Or moved on to tomorrow?

    Tomorrow never knows
    It’s Happy Line

    Now just what is it that I should be believing?
    These spent days end in ways that can’t be seen, ya …

    Yet as I gaze into the night
    Somehow a light, not darkness I’m facing

    And everybody has a face that they call “happiness”
    Can mine really be seen?
    Though I can’t laugh, it seems, ya ya

    With a passion for the future burning in my heart
    With rose tints o’er my eyes
    I’ll try to laugh and smile

    Tomorrow never knows

    Can’t drown myself in yesterday
    Today I write my dream
    Confused as it may seem, ya ya

    All the pretty twinkling stars that shine before the dawn
    Now have they really gone?
    Or moved on to tomorrow?

    Tomorrow never knows
    It’s Happy Line

    Now for just what purpose is it I am living?

    [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6W4EqCwNuk[/video]

    It’s Happy Line
    Words and Music … Yui
    Unauthorized English Adaptation … Kevin
    ___________________________________

    Last pills, YAY!

    #4211
    Avatar photoemilio
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    @emilio

    That is so awesome K, thanks for sharing mate. Em

    #4218
    Avatar photoJoy
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    @joy

    Farewell Chester, I like your creative exit.

    YOU are one of the generic pioneers, inspiring others like me to follow. Thank you for sharing your journey.

    I wish you all the best for whichever whither you wind up at.

    Beyond infinity?

    #4221
    Avatar photoChester
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    @chester

    :lol:

    No my “little lovelies” are the drugs. Not you guys. I’m not gonna just eat and run.

    Not that you aren’t a little lovely too Joy. :kiss:

    Does no one remember Aunty Jack? God knows, most of ya are old enough! :P

    Goodbye, me little lovelies! And don’t forget to tune in next week to the show, because if you don’t, I’m going to come round to your house, and I’m going to rip your bloody arms off. And I will too. Don’t forget it.

    #4224
    Avatar photoChester
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    @chester

    I should add that I think the downside of the Riba has been kicking in over the last two weeks. Been short of breath, bit fatigued and right quadrant abdo discomfort. Which is disconcerting but as I understand you can’t go backwards on treatment, I’m not letting it worry me.

    Anyway, I’m going to get an FBC done tomorrow when I go in for my eot VLs and will report back the results for the benefit of others on riba. Doubt I’m anemic but like Greg, I think I might be heading that way. I had an FBC at 2 weeks when everything was comfortably normal so the comparison will be interesting. It hasn’t been unpleasant being so close to the end. But if it is the riba, don’t think I’d like to be doing 24 weeks of the stuff.

    Really, the entire treatment has been a doddle.

    #4228
    Avatar photoCJ
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    @cj

    Hi Chester,

    So glad you’ve finished, or will be tonight after those last ribas!

    The ribas always knock you around a bit because they destroy the red blood cells.
    They hit much harder though if paired with the Ifn.

    No wonder you feel it.

    Hope you get your strength back soon.

    And I really hope so much that you get a SVR :cheer:
    Thank you you so much for all your help to me, it really made a difference being able to talk to you on the phone.
    Love Cindi x


    J the young dragon slayer is:
    HepC 1a since birth
    Male aged 15
    VL 2000000
    Started Twinvir/ 10-11-15-then Sof/led.
    NO sides so far !
    after one week VL : 37
    after 4 wks VL : UND !
    EOT 2/2/16 UND.!
    4 wks. post tx results….pending….
    7/3/16 VL result : 4 week post tx: SVR !
    12 weeks SVR !
    24 wks SVR yeeaa!!

    #4230
    Avatar photoPaul-Jarman-facebook
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    @paul-jarman-facebook

    Good stuff Chester good to see people coming to the end of treatment with so few side effects well compared to the past treatments anyway. It’s also good to see someone so passionate about generics although I have never mentioned it you posts here and elsewhere helped encourage me to chase down these meds.

    Good Luck


    Two time relapser.

    SVR 4 achieved 12/16 at last
    SVR 12 achieved 22/02/2017 The Bastard has been defeated :):):)

    GT 3 – about 28 yrs with HCV

    #4231
    karilo
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    @karilo

    I wish all the all the best for your new life !

    #4236
    Avatar photozhuk
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    @zhuk

    Love your pictorial farewell Chester heh…great that you will see the end of the Riba too. Yes thank god we aren’t condemned to the hell of the old treatments and their length, now that we have the means. Hope you do well mate, and all the very best for achieving SVR :)

    And props for rekindling some fond old memories :P

    auntyjack.jpg


    GT1a since 1988, diagnosed 1990
    F0, tx naive
    VL 262,000 ALT 40 AST 26 GGT 13 Fibroscan 04/12/15 – 2.9
    Started Mesochem sof/dac 12 weeks 01/01/2016
    11/02/2016 – 6 weeks UNDETECTED
    AST 26
    ALT 26

    #4245
    Avatar photoLondonGirl
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    @londongirl

    Dear Chester – An extremely well done to you Everything crossed for the expected result :)

    Loving the bike pic zhuk !


    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

    #4254
    Avatar photoArcher
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    @archer

    Yahoo. How the time has flown. EOT – the time has come the walrus said …. To speak of many things. Dont become a stranger- you have been an inspiration to so many – a cherished fellow traveller. Wishing you SVR sunshine – sweet freedom and a richer life ahead. Archer xx

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