So, the battle is joined!

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18 January 2016 at 4:57 am #9582
zhuk
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@zhuk
Hey thanks Tina! I think you are spot-on there – we have to discover the real us which was underneath the clouded veneer of the virus. Definitely don’t feel as beleagured as I usually do…hmm so that wasn’t completely all “me” then?

I think there’s going to be a real re-evaluation in store for all of us

GT1a since 1988, diagnosed 1990
F0, tx naive
VL 262,000 ALT 40 AST 26 GGT 13 Fibroscan 04/12/15 – 2.9
Started Mesochem sof/dac 12 weeks 01/01/2016
11/02/2016 – 6 weeks UNDETECTED
AST 26
ALT 26
18 January 2016 at 7:04 am #9598
mgalbrai
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@mgalbrai
Welcome back big guy!
Like old times again.
I thought I was going to have to buzz down and see if the drop bears got you.
M

Curehcvnow@gmail.com
http://forums.delphiforums.com/generichcvtx

G 1a F-1
Started tx 10/23/15 (Meso sof & led) ALT 48 AST 28 v/l 1.6 mil
11/17/15 4 wk lab ALT 17 AST 16 <15
11/18/15 Started Harvoni
12/16/15 8 wk lab ALT: 15 AST: 13 V/l UND
1/14/16 Fin. Tx
7/07/16 UND SVR 24
18 January 2016 at 7:10 am #9600
Joy
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Yeah Zhuk, welcome back, so glad you’re still alive and kicking, and sleeping well on meds. Onward and upward to SVR…
19 January 2016 at 3:47 am #9720
zhuk
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@zhuk
mgalbrai wrote:

Welcome back big guy!
Like old times again.
I thought I was going to have to buzz down and see if the drop bears got you.
M

Ha Mike! Well yeah I’ve avoided the drop bears, true…though I gotta say I think tourists are their main preference

Notice you’re at the end of your treatment now – great stuff mate

GT1a since 1988, diagnosed 1990
F0, tx naive
VL 262,000 ALT 40 AST 26 GGT 13 Fibroscan 04/12/15 – 2.9
Started Mesochem sof/dac 12 weeks 01/01/2016
11/02/2016 – 6 weeks UNDETECTED
AST 26
ALT 26
19 January 2016 at 4:01 am #9724
zhuk
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@zhuk
Joy wrote:

Yeah Zhuk, welcome back, so glad you’re still alive and kicking, and sleeping well on meds. Onward and upward to SVR…

Thanks very much Joy, I really appreciate it

I am apparently unafflicted by the insomnia issue yeah…so I feel very fortunate there. I’ve also started a very low dose of one of the old-style tricyclic antidepressants for chronic pain, and I bet that is helping too. Rather impatiently waiting for 4 week bloods now…by all accounts it has to bbe working – but the numbers are a reassurance huh!

GT1a since 1988, diagnosed 1990
F0, tx naive
VL 262,000 ALT 40 AST 26 GGT 13 Fibroscan 04/12/15 – 2.9
Started Mesochem sof/dac 12 weeks 01/01/2016
11/02/2016 – 6 weeks UNDETECTED
AST 26
ALT 26
19 January 2016 at 4:23 am #9727
mgalbrai
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@mgalbrai
Those numbers will shine, my friend!
I’ve been sleeping like a baby.
Life is good.
Mike

Curehcvnow@gmail.com
http://forums.delphiforums.com/generichcvtx

G 1a F-1
Started tx 10/23/15 (Meso sof & led) ALT 48 AST 28 v/l 1.6 mil
11/17/15 4 wk lab ALT 17 AST 16 <15
11/18/15 Started Harvoni
12/16/15 8 wk lab ALT: 15 AST: 13 V/l UND
1/14/16 Fin. Tx
7/07/16 UND SVR 24
19 January 2016 at 1:23 pm #9787
zhuk
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@zhuk
Great to hear it, Mike

You deserve major props for being our resident US Pied-Piper too, awesome work

GT1a since 1988, diagnosed 1990
F0, tx naive
VL 262,000 ALT 40 AST 26 GGT 13 Fibroscan 04/12/15 – 2.9
Started Mesochem sof/dac 12 weeks 01/01/2016
11/02/2016 – 6 weeks UNDETECTED
AST 26
ALT 26
24 January 2016 at 8:34 am #10277
Chejai
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zhuk wrote:

I’ve also started a very low dose of one of the old-style tricyclic antidepressants for chronic pain, and I bet that is helping too. Rather impatiently waiting for 4 week bloods now…by all accounts it has to bbe working – but the numbers are a reassurance huh!

Hi Zhuk, would that be Amitriptyline? My mother was telling me my brother’s scripts and she asked about this. I noticed that other than major depression and anxiety it’s used for neuralgia, peripheral neuropathy, migraines, and more. I got interested but it wasn’t recommended for people with liver disease and he has HepC and cirrhosis, so I want to ask her why he’s been prescribed this.

Anyway, wondering how you’re doing. Hope all is well

QLD Australia ‚òÄÔ∏è
G3a HCV 35 yrs Tx naive
Started Sof/Dac 13/01/16

Dec ’15
AST 70
ALT 89
GGT 124
Fibroscore 8.5
F1-F2
13 Feb’16 VL UND
AST 24
ALT 26
GGT 50H
25 January 2016 at 5:10 am #10349
Ariel
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Hi Zkuk great to hear things are plodding along nicely for you with few sx. day 14 here, you are ahead of me. I will be waiting to hear your week 4 bloods with bated breath. Have I missed your results? I am a bit all over the place here…I am trying to keep up with my tx buddies as we blog along in our random bursts. Anyway, great to hear you are around, it has been hectic down here on the Hoax Coast with the surf dramas, the fires and gosh well they say things happen in threes so I hope we don’t have a shark attack next! Mind you at the Liver Clinic there are few sharks that can take care of the trilogy of mishap! haaha! Cheers from Ariel down here in the sticks
26 January 2016 at 4:44 pm #10455
Greedfighter
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Hi Zhuk! Glad to hear your treatment is going so well with no side effects. Waing to hear your test results. Good Luck!
28 January 2016 at 10:30 am #10644
honker
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Hi Zhuk,

I hope all is well. Just curious if you are having any headaches and what are you taking for them if anything. Not sure if aspirin, acetominaphen or ibuprofen better. I’m not really planning on needing it but wondering what you and others think. It has always been confusing for me and I have generally avoided for the last 15 years. All the best. Honker

Diagnosed in 2000, Genotype 1(b), no previous treatment,
Viral Load 90,700, ALT 86, AST 56 (as of Novemeber 15, 2015)
Fibroscan F0
Starting Redemption Sof/Led on February 2, 2016
Thanks to Greg Jeffries, Monkmed , FixHepC and Dr. Freeman

Feb. 29
Week 5 of tx
ALT 23
Undetected

May 26
4 EOT
ALT 25
AST 28

Didn’t test for viral load. Will test is July at 12 weeks EOT

August 1
Liver enzymes in normal range
HCV UNDETECTED
28 January 2016 at 10:45 am #10645
Dr James
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@fixhepc
Hi Zhuk Great news all round. Glad you are feeling much better. My insomnia has eased off the closer I get to the end of my treatment (10 days and counting)….still wake early but go straight back to sleep again. Sounds like you are breezing through

Honker I have had horrid headaches on and off and just take a couple of Neurofen….I was getting headaches before treatment too which I assume had something to do with the virus because I have never really suffered from headaches before…..

I see a Bowen Therapist who is amazing and has managed to keep my headaches at bay for now.

Cheers

YMMV
28 January 2016 at 11:08 am #10647
honker
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Hi Lynne,

Glad to hear all is going well and thanks for the info. Looks like Nurofen is trademark for ibuprofen + some other secret ingredients haha. I plan to drink a lot of water and use yoga techniques to control any headache. I am an optimist who prepares just in case. 10 days left, you must be really psyched. It is so odd, I have watched many people start the treament and now many of them are near finished. Now my turn. Good luck with the next `10 days, you can see the finish line…….

Diagnosed in 2000, Genotype 1(b), no previous treatment,
Viral Load 90,700, ALT 86, AST 56 (as of Novemeber 15, 2015)
Fibroscan F0
Starting Redemption Sof/Led on February 2, 2016
Thanks to Greg Jeffries, Monkmed , FixHepC and Dr. Freeman

Feb. 29
Week 5 of tx
ALT 23
Undetected

May 26
4 EOT
ALT 25
AST 28

Didn’t test for viral load. Will test is July at 12 weeks EOT

August 1
Liver enzymes in normal range
HCV UNDETECTED
28 January 2016 at 12:06 pm #10653
magpie
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@magpie
All the best of luck and little sides.

EOT UNDETECTED
Week 8 all bloods within normal limits
Week 4 Undetected
2016 – 28 January started Harvoni & Riba treatment
VL pretreatment 639,000 alt- 77
2015 fibroscan – 6.6
2 x non responder peg interferon & riba
geno 1a
28 January 2016 at 12:12 pm #10655
Dr James
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@fixhepc
Thanks Honker…..I have to admit that I am getting a bit nervous about finishing treatment…I feel “safe” while taking the meds knowing they are keeping the virus at bay. Yes there will be a few of us finishing soon I think. Hopefully I will have positive post 4 week and 12 week news to share.

YMMV
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