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Good morning Donna from Oz, I am not sure where you are on the globe but it is early morning here
I would like to try to help you understand these results, and will give it a shot from my humble place here (just educated from being a patient for five years) .
Platelets range is 150-450 for normal range, (I know that, mine dropped to 80 once). So I think yours at 220 is good.
The Kpa number for the fibroscan 6.4 is where they have declared you as F1/2. It is maybe F1? I think a Doctor needs to second opinion this, I am not a doctor, only another tx recipient, but I do know at 5.6 I was declared F0 that was before tx. I also know that there are friends who have finished tx and their F scores have lowered to F0 from where you are now, that is a hope for your future too, more good news.The ALT, AST, are your Liver functions the main indicators. We call this group of tests LFTs here in Oz. Globulin (Mine is written up as GGT on my reports, Bili and ALP are also in this pathology. HB (haemoglobin) I see on mine the range is 120-155 for normal. RBC is your Red Blood Cell Count. As I understand it, the normal range is between 3.90 to 5.03 trillion cells per litre. Yours seems to be in the middle of the normal range at 4.52.
Your ALT and AST are slightly elevated but I know that is very common with patients it is often how the illness is diagnosed I think, in my experience anyway.. If you check on others ‘signatures” you can see these two numbers consistently start to lower as we each go through the treatment.
There are others here with gen3 who will be able o chat to you about that, I was 1A and cleared easily on sof/led after epic failure on peginf riba.
I am pretty sure there is a genotype specific section somewhere on the forum, you can also put a search in to come up with relevant blogs for you, say pop in Genotype 3 in the search box and see what comes up.
Ferritin is iron, and that number seems in range to me, I think the range is okay if you are >100μg/L. I know that it is helpful to have good B12 levels and wonder if the ferritin test was to check your overall iron levels. I am sure that you would have been told if there was a problem with your iron. But again, I am no doctor, just trying too help you out.
Maybe ask others who have Gen3 about tx duration, and seek a second opinion form GP2U/monkmed if you are concerned too.
I am not sure what VL2.8 means because here it came on my reports in thousands, so you are getting a different type of reading. I also do not know if it is relevant to tx, that again is for a medical expert.
I wish you success, a peaceful as possible time during your treatment and the best thing? You have started now on your path to getting rid of the illness.
You are in good company here, many helpful resources are available on this site, and yes there are people to help. I am looking forward to hearing of your journey to cure, sending you happies and best wishes for your questions I hope that I have given you some assistance from my own little journey with these pathologies and so on. I am sure if I have made an error trying to help you here that it will be corrected by a more educated person, so wait and see who responds in case I have not been correct but I hope I have…. Love form Ariel
Hi Donna,
Lots of good information there from Ariel. I’m not a doctor either but from what I can see you can afford to relax a little as none of your results seem to be cause for alarm and you have several weeks or more to make a decision regarding length of treatment. One piece of information that would assist people to understand your situation a little better is whether the test results you have listed were taken prior to starting treatment or are they based on your current status after about two weeks medication?
Regarding length of treatment and your nurse’s comments, with more people treating it has been found that GT3 is proving a little more difficult to treat than those clinical trials anticipated so some are suggesting a longer course of treatment to increase the chances of clearing the virus the first time round. Although you may only increase your chances by a few percent it seems to make some sense to do so first try if you can afford it as an individual but for a government it works out cheaper to treat everyone for 12 weeks, cure most of them then go back and retreat the failed 5-10% for 24 weeks the second time round. That is the context of Dr Freeman’s comments in the other thread to Lukemeister who was also a GT3 with F2 fibroscan although he had prior (unsuccessful) treatment experience.
https://fixhepc.com/forum/gt3/1290-question-to-dr-freeman-treatement-length.html#21378
I hope that helps you to clarify your thoughts and fortunately you have a few weeks to make the best decision for your circumstances. As Ariel suggests, have a look around and please feel free to ask if you have any questions.
Here are some further links I quickly found on length of treatment for GT3.
https://fixhepc.com/forum/questions-and-answers/939-zero-12-14-16-18-or-20-weeks-is-the-answer.html#14900
https://fixhepc.com/forum/gt3/885-post-treatment-gt-3a.html#14166
https://fixhepc.com/forum/gt3/861-alt-ast-ratio.html#14152
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
Thank You James Freeman… These are my pre treatment bloods… So I’m happy that 12 weeks treatment will probably be enough
21 days on treatment and had a few results today. ALT has dropped to 20. Liver looks fine. Will get viral load result next week. I’m massively relieved, it all seems to be working!
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