the medication scenario offered to me by my doctors focused on peg interferone and ribavarin initially. in india none of this is on insurance or co pay. so all was out of pocket expenditure.

was lucky that the new oral drugs hit the market when i was contemplating therapy. so was put on Natco’s Hepcinat with ribavarin initially.
but developed severe reactions to ribavarin with hemoglobin dropping and severe vomiting. so was shifeted to a longer combo of Hepcinat and NatDac. doing great on the same.

due to super competition among generic companies, the costs were dirt cheap for meds as compared to printed pricing. my doc contacted the distributors of most top companies and we found out the cheapest costs for me. my docs letter of recommending concessions for me helped me a lot. he says he does it routinely for his patients local and abroad.

hepcinat rs 19900 (US$ 300) then cost me rs 9400 (US$145) per month NatDac rs 6000 (US$ 90) cost me rs 3800 (US$ 57). the costs of some good indian generics are way lesser than these. a friend i made during doc visits was on Hepcinat LP which too is a widely used combo which he used to get at rs 12000 (US$180).

the price of drugs is low according to him because few states in India have started providing fully free hepc meds to all patients and hence the costs of meds in distributors has dropped too low levels.

i am doing ok thanks to my familys support encouragement and my docs help in getting me cheap yet quality meds.

now waiting for my results next month. thank you for including me here.