Sof/Dac is as good as Sof/Vel and more reliably absorbed.

While there is nothing really wrong with doing a bit extra for insurance you are looking at a baseline 95-96% cure rate with 12 weeks.

If you are undetected at 4 weeks after starting the tablets then you are on track and should probably just sit tight.

If mentally it’s going to bug you severely then it’s not completely insane to do a bit longer, either with the same medication, or a pangenotypic like Sof/Dac or Sof/Vel.

Harvoni has the best track record of any drug in GT1 with multiple sources of independent validation.

Sof/Vel is new and there are absorption issues around the velpatasvir in some patients. Because it’s new, most of the data is company data and the Harvoni data (from the company) was a little on the optimistic side.

We have used quite a lot of Sof/Dac in GT1 and I am aware of a large independent study about to be published about it, but because of the originator price being north of $100k there is less in the public domain.

Any of these are good, and the number of failures so small it’s hard to pick a clear winner.

I just found out that I have a viral load of almost 4 million……I haven’t spoken to my doctor yet, just saw lab results and my mind is spinning…..is 4 million really bad?

Can’t remember what mine was.

In the end I got treated and got rid of the virus.

Can’t remember now if the viral load is/was that significant for treatment in my case – GT3??

Made a difference though when it become undetected!

It’s funny that this is all a distant memory now I am free of Hep C.

All the best with your treatment,

Jeff

Hi 808 cruiser and welcome.

As the others have mentioned,amount of viral load is of really no consequence. When I was first diagnosed mine was 9 mill. and then when I started my first treatment years later it was 6.5 mill.

It flucuates up and down on a regular basis. It is a war between them replicating and your immune system fighting them.

Hopfully you will be treating soon with these excellent drugs that stop that replicating process in its tracks.

Hi 808cruiser,

I know those figures can seem crazy high and worrying but like others my viral load was all over the place before treatment. Anywhere between 1 million and 5+ million and beyond. It doesn’t matter much where it is when you start treatment – the most important thing is that those little critters are undetectable at the end.

Good luck with your treatment.