Yes Coral

Yes, trust and instinct was necessary back then, and now we have evidence too with the trial results, 90% + success rate and that trust worked out. Who could have dreamed of this 2015, Oh, wait on a min
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The whole experience helps to restore faith in human nature, that there are still good people in this messed up world doing great work for humanity.

I send you my wishes for good health and big

LG

Today I had my appointment with the very lovely Doctor P at RPA, and she gave me the formal news that I’d already been given in an email by the hep c nurse.
While it was good to get it on paper, plus also have a fibroscan done that showed an even better F0 result (median stiffness 4.0), she made a comment that I found interesting. She said the Hep C problem is solved. I know she is busy so I didn’t engage in that discussion but it is a worry that someone who is right at the coalface of Hep C treatment in Australia thinks that.

I joined Fixhepc ~6 months ago ….. mainly by “accident”.

It was in the period when I just find out that I might be cured by a drug called Harvoni and reading the blog of Greg Jefferys, I was becoming aware that generic drugs might be the solution for me. However, I was still reluctant on the idea to use generic medication (like many other people, I was confronted with “ghosts” like generic might not be same effective as branded drugs, fear that being made in India might mean low quality, perhaps poison, etc…..) , however because Fixhepc appeared very often in my Google searches, I was “crazy” enough to write an e-mail to Fixhepc asking whether they could test 1 pill for me, provided that I will buy the medication from an online pharmacy.

I was extremely surprised to receive an e-mail back from Dr. Freeman with couple of information about the generic HCV drugs, Fixhepc buyers club, etc…. And so started my journey to treat my HCV, having 2 angels: Greg Jefferys and Dr. Freeman .

I will always remember, with pleasure, how surprised I was to get the e-mail from Dr. Freeman. Me getting an e-mail from a doctor ? It was the first time when a doctor was writing me an e-mail…. Perhaps in other parts of the world it is a common thing for a doctor to write e-mails to the patients, but in my case it was something that never happened to me. (Well done Doc ).

Shall I add that before replying back to dr. Freeman, I started a small research on Google to see whether he really exists and if he is really a doctor? So, when I found his name together with the name of Dr. Andrew Hill on the United Nations Secretary General website as well on other websites, I started to gain more trust and engaged in the communication with him. Today when I think back on those times I believe that without the small piece of courage to write that e-mail to Fixhepc, perhaps I would still be today on the waiting list to get treated…..

The rest is now history for me too

Cheers,
RHF

Hey good to hear from you 2B and it’s great that things are going so well. When you think about it, it was a pretty incredible adventure that you had that took a lot of guts and trust. But what a payoff! Keep enjoying life.

Bloody hell, its over a year since I found this place

Add me to the year later cured club

One year ago
I was having lithotripsy, cytoscopy, scans, ultrasounds, sleeping every day, using any energy to go surfing and rebuild the thirty years of sport muscle that peginf nuked (well I fought hard against it), I was on OxyContin 10mg a day for pain, growing and living on green foods, my pile of lobbying letters was an inch thick, I had started writing songs in plea, I LEFT THE MAINSTREAM and followed my buddy Emilio from another place to FHC and despite having set up a trip to the UK to pay 45,000 pounds to Alcura for Sofosbuvir then discovered that I could access a miracle combo called Harvoni which Em was blogging. Well that second postponement in the Pipeline on Dec 1 was it for this lil duckie and I ordered my meds from here a leap of faith I can still recall the feeling of morphing from a lobbyist to becoming my own messiah in it all. The PBS came through, sure, but after being an imprint in my bed I was stoked more than any fish in my pond to be already UND by then and on my way.
The change was so profound.
So hard had I had to work to recover my hair skin muscle weight brain and blood work to regular stuff from peginf to that first fiery week on my MIRACLE GENERIC DAAs. No more do I need to flog myself no! The change was starting slowly but man has it a momentum.
Change is visually amazing, inner fortitude, cognitive change much to celebrate and now slipping more and more to a new person the real me who once had HCV but is now free.
Congratulations to all.
Ariel

Hi to everyone,

1 year ago I received my first UNDETECTED viral load test. The test was made after almost 4 weeks of treatment and it was a huge relief to know that the virus has gone. The reimaining 8 weeks of tx were very easy to me.

So what happen since then? Well, I finished my treatment, I reached SVR12 and I continue to like readimg the stories of other people, how they are doing, etc. Unfortunately I do not have too much time left for writing on the forum, it sems that after being cured I am investing a lot of time in doing things I could not do before.

I also keep an eye with what happens in my country with the subsidized treatment for HCV, there is some progress, but not as much as I would see as necessary…The only thing that I currently see in excess is politics and promises. Many barriers, which I also faced, in accesssing the treatment still exist and that’s a solid reason for me to consider myself lucky enough for getting treated with generics and at the same time to be very thankfull to all who have shared their stories, opinios, experiences here on Fixhepc and to dr. Freeman and Greg who made the dream of getting treated of HCV come true.

In good health to all of you,

Cheers,
RHF