Hi, From what I’ve read the US customs don’t like to seize medications for personnel use but there seems to be no definitive policy?, there are people on this forum who have imported mesochem API DAA’s from China to the US and I’m sure as soon as one of these guys reads your post they’ll be able to offer some good advice if you chose to import yourself, of course testing these powders would be expensive but mesochem is a pretty reliable outfit, or you could fly to Australia have the medications tested and encapsulated start treatment for a couple days then fly home with your meds, a more expensive option to be sure, but reliable, the good news is you’ve got time to decide.

Best of luck to you

Hi Cassady: I’m one of the guys who just went to Australia from US and came home with it. Before I decided to do that, I was looking into having it mailed, which may be possible through fixhep c or Greg Jeffreys (keep reading and you’ll learn about him too, very nice, very helpful). I think the new difficulties folks are talking about is just directly importing it from the factory in china, which factory I hear doesn’t want to do it anymore. That doesn’t necessarily mean that you still couldn’t do it the way I was looking at before, but for that you need a prescription from an Australian doctor (easily done with a consult thru gp2u), and preferably a generic prescription from a US Dr to be included with your package, and some other stuff Greg Jeffreys was telling me about.

I had most of that stuff together, including a generic script from my US doctor but then i just got impatient and decided to just go and get it and see what it was like to walk upside down on the bottom of the planet. I managed to hang on.

I would suggest talk with Dr. Freeman and/or Greg Jeffreys about getting it mailed to here if you want to go that route. At one point also I know some folks were talking about trying to set up a pick up place in mexico or bahamas for us US folks, but I never heard anything come of that—but it would be a real good idea. Bahamas for those on the East Coast, Mexico for those down south and west….maybe somewhere in Canada for the rest of us up in the tundra. Good luck to you, get well soon.

Hi Jade and welcome,

Always nice to hear from the US. If you want to, please feel free to start a thread to post about how you found the site and also how you sourced your medications. I’m sure there will be many of your fellow Americans who are interested to hear you and your husband’s experiences to help them understand the process better.

Hi Jade,

That’s great that you got the generics!

yes the tx works, and most have little sides.

My son had none at all.

Good luck,

Cindi x

Hi Cassady,

If you have not done so, listen to Mike and email curehcvnow@gmail.com. If you get an RX at GP2U.com, you can get Twinvir (generic Harvoni) or learn about other options. I got Twinvir shipped to USA no problem with Mike’s help

Hi LLJ,
I’m glad you got approved and I’m glad you found us.
I got two emails this morning about successful importation of Twinvir.
Email for the particulars.
No, there is no problem getting it into the U.S.
Total cost for 12 weeks: $1000.
Mike

The thing is, I’m now down to 2 more weeks of treatment. Then I have the post treatment labs, then 12 week labs. Would starting daclatasavir change the test results? I don’t think I could bear to think I was at SVR and then have it come back.

I talked to my doctor’s office about what to do if treatment fails (I’m at stage 4 so I don’t think my chances are that good). She said they would wait for a new pan genotypic med to be approved later in the year. I don’t knòw if it is an entirely new medication of a combination of the other ones. (for all I know, it’s sovosbuvir with daclatasavir).

If not – I was wondering about doing another course of treatment and using generics (while we can still import them into the US, before greedy Gilead shuts us down completely). I would need to find out from Dr Freeman about doing it, for example, how long to wait between treatments, and whether to use all three drugs: sovosbuvir, daclatasavir and ribavirin.