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17 December 2019 at 2:04 pm #29621
Hi Cherr1985,
Thanks for letting us know how you’re going. With any luck things will just continue to improve.
Compared to the old treatments, these new ones are very mild.
Please keep us updated with how things are going.
A lot of people find it hard to believe you can just import the treatment and get cured.
YMMV
17 December 2019 at 7:58 pm #29622Thanks Cherr for this update, it has useful information for people with Hep C who haven’t been treated yet. It also shows that Hep C can be the real reason behind chronic fatigue.
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17 December 2019 at 10:07 pm #29623Yes you are right. Fatigue is part of the fact of being infected with the hep c virus. Regardless of level of liver damage. I remember that the most tired I have ever felt since being hep c infection is when I was first infected. Before you even know if you will clear it or be chronic. I remember being super tired. At the time I did not know that I had been infected with hep c until some months later.
23 December 2019 at 3:27 am #29637I am on my 12 day of taking generic harvoni. I have had a few headaches and I have been feeling fatigue. But overall in general I feel pretty good. The first week I was having insomia but now I haven’t. I will do a viral load test on my 4th week of taking the medicine. I have a question and I hope that someone can answer it. I have had 3 viral load tests done; the last one I did was in April 5, 2017. The viral load number was 5609367. The test is was hep c quantitative RT PCR and the measurement is in (IU/ML)
Can someone tell me what is that number above. Yes I am aware that many times the viral load number doesn’t influence on treatment a whole lot or level of damage on the liver. I think that number is , five hundred and sixty thousand, nine hundred and thirty six. The vital load test before that test was on April 25, 2016, the viral load number was 4189616. Thanks.23 December 2019 at 4:41 am #29638I think I figured it out. I have 7 digit numbers on my viral load test results; which means millions. My latest test is this number 5609367,five million, six hundred nine thousand and three hundred and sixty seven. Wow thats high. I was expecting that my viral load was below 800,000 , you know in the thousands. Because I have no liver damage. I am in 0 stage of fibrosis. So I thought less liver damage less viral load. I almost freaked out but I did not because I read here on fixhepc that having high viral load doesn’t really mean anything in terms of treatment outcomes and liver damage. If you are using the new DAA drugs. Obviously for me its right because my liver itself is not even in stage 1 and I have had it for 10 years now. Wow this website unbelievable, so helpful.
23 December 2019 at 7:53 am #29639Hi Cherr, I’m glad that treatment is going mostly smoothly for you. You’re correct in that it doesn’t matter what your viral load is when getting treated with the modern Hep C medicines (DAAs), the cure rate is the same (about 95%). I remember well a patient who had a 32 million viral load getting treated and cured with generics supplied by FixHepC. Best of luck to you.
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24 December 2019 at 11:19 am #29640Hello Cher1985,
The average viral load is 2 to 3 million so it’s not particularly high.
The actual number really has no impact on anything.
Best wishes
James
YMMV
30 December 2019 at 1:21 pm #29655I am on 20th day of harvoni. I feel very good. I haven’t felt this good since I was a kid. I am 34. This is strange to me that I am shocked. As far as negative side effects; on my first 2 weeks I did have some headaches. So far I haven’t had them. But I am drinking more water than ever before and it seems that the headaches have gone away. Out of these times I got headaches, two were bad enough that I had to take ibuprofen. But I haven’t since then. My appetite is normal. The first 2 weeks I had a little bit of insomnia, now as of right now, which I am in my 3rd week of harvoni, I am sleeping good. I feel fatigued alittle bit but honestly its not as it was the first 2 weeks of harvoni. It is very small now. I feel so good that I am exercising. I have always exercised. But I did stop for 6 months until I started taking harvoni. In 2 more weeks I will do the hep c viral load test. I have no doubt that my viral loads have gone down.
30 December 2019 at 3:04 pm #29656Sounds good Cherr, the fact that you haven’t felt this good since you were a kid after 2-3 weeks of treatment is a very good sign that everything is going according to plan. With any luck, your next viral load will be undetected
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4 January 2020 at 7:25 am #29659Hi Cherr,
It sounds as if things are going really well and you are experiencing a few of the usual mild side effects from the treatment. Looking forward to your next test results but it all sounds great so far.
Like you I found that drinking lots of water, eating well and exercising helped along the way.
Cheers
Coral5 January 2020 at 3:03 pm #29662Hi Cher,
Thanks for sharing this part of your journey.
Best Wishes
James
YMMV
14 January 2020 at 12:59 pm #29678I did my 4 week viral load test last Friday and my results show that I am undetectable. These medications work so good. I wasn’t expecting to be undetectable on my 4 week. Because I had a high viral load. The last viral load test
I took was in 2017 and it was 4 million. I noticed since taking my very first viral load back in 2015 all the way to 2017 : my viral load went from 1 million to 4 million. So if my viral load was 4 million in 2017, maybe in 2019, it could have even been 5 to 6 million. That’s if the trend of increasing had continued. But at this point it don’t matter. I am very happy to be undetectable in only week 4. I still have 8 more weeks to go of harvoni treatment. Thanks to fixhepc for everything. I come a long way to when I very first made contact to when I decided to buy it and to when I got the medicines and to where I am now. I always new fixhepc was legitimate; I wasn’t ready to make the purchase because I had to go to Ethiopia to see my wife so my priorities were in that. But I stared thinking that my health is the most important thing ever and having hep c is not really being healthy. No matter if you have a low or high viral load or no liver damage. You still have a virus.Attachments:14 January 2020 at 1:18 pm #29679Hi Cherr, that’s really great, it’s actually not strange to be undetected after 4 weeks, happens with about 80% of treated patients, the new medications are that awesome. You’re definitely on the right path now for reaching cure, keep taking every pill on time and don’t stop until you finish the very last pill, that’s essential. Really looking forward to hearing news of your cure from Hep C 3 months after you finish treatment
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14 January 2020 at 3:14 pm #29680Great news Cherr1985!
Onwards and upwards…
Keep kicking the virus until you finish the pills. We don’t want to give it a chance to get back up again.
YMMV
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