Attention U.S. Visitors!
6/07/16 current update:
There is great information in this topic about accessing reliable, affordable HCV treatment. Things are changing rapidly in a good way. Feel free to contact me at curehcvnow@gmail.com for the latest information.
Mike

I ordered my 12 week supply of sof & led from Rachel at Mesochem in mid October. I wired the money, $1916.00, to the company bank on Monday. It was delivered to my door on Friday at 7:30 am. I know of one other person I advised who had the same success. It would be nice to hear about other success or non success stories about getting these life saving APIs into the U.S. It might help those who can’t get approval from insurance to make the decision to take matters into their own hands here in the States. I know of many people whose insurance would only approve an 8 week course of Harvoni, but want the added assurance of achieving SVR that comes with the 12 week tx. A $700 investment could give them that peace of mind.
Mike

I had planned to go to India to get my generic harvoni originally, but then the release date kept being delayed. Five days in India, airfare and expenses, including medical, was going to cost around $7000.00.
During my wait for generic harvoni in India, I ran across Greg and, a couple of days later, Dr. Freeman and fixhepc. That was my “ahaaa” moment. If there was a company that sold pure sofosbuvir and ledipasvir to individuals for a reasonable price, then my awful illness’s days were numbered. I would go to the mountain if the mountain wouldn’t come to me. So simple after being so hard for so very long. A few exchanged emails, wired some money, bought some digital mg scales and a capsule funnel. Four days later, take your first dose.
Those people at Customs and the FDA are Americans. I firmly believe they are not out to prevent people from getting the life-saving medications they need into the country-right now.
Enough money in the right campaign fund might change that.
Get well folks!
You can do this.

Mike
Day 21: Mesochem sof & led

I just came through US customs yesterday with my prescriptions from Dr. Freeman and filled and in labeled packaging from the pharmacy. Like Khilde said, they didn’t ask me about it and I didn’t say anything about it. I had them in the bag with other various and numerous medicines I brought from the US just to add a confusion factor. I had all my documentation and a conversation ready to go if I needed it, but it was simply a non event. Sofosbuvir and Daclatasvir for my 2b genotype, popped first ones down the hatch the first day, on my 8th day now and feel fine.

Thank you very much for posting this article. My friend can’t afford the meds so I told her I would pay for them but she’s refusing to get them because she doesn’t want to “break the law”. This article is just what I need to convince her.

Thank you Mike, I just have to convince my friend its okay.

I told her if she’s not around I would have to take care of her website and the first thing I would do is change it to hot pink.
I’m hoping that will help change her mind.

PP

Hi All,
I was just notified of another success story by a friend I helped guide through the direct importation process.
It is working. We need to find a testing method other than the two legged variety that is affordable,
Mike

For those importing to the US, whether by mail or on their person, as noted by others it helps to have documentation (officials and bureaucrats love cya “documentation”.

Prior to getting my meds, I read everything I could on the vague FDA/sustoms mishmash and I came across references to the FDA “Orange Book”. I read somewhere that customs officials sometimes consult the Orange Book when they are trying to figure out if a medicine is OK to come in. I looked it up, and the Orange Book lists the generic versions of Daclatasvir and Sofosbuvir, so I printed those out and had them with my medication in case I had to have those conversations.

A link to the Orange book is here: http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/ob/
IF you read down a little, theres a search box for the “active ingredient” you want to look up.
If for example, you type in daclatasvir, it brings you to this, a handly little synopsis about generic daklinza: http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/ob/docs/tempai.cfm

Here’s the one for sofosbuvir: http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/ob/docs/tempai.cfm

It might be overkill, but you never know, it might be the extra piece of paper that gets your meds through, I figure it can’t hurt to have it traveling with your medication documentation.

Good luck to all on their imports. (Damn, 11 days into medicine and I’m wide awake after onlyl 3 1/2 hours of sleep, there is a definite sleep deprivation side effect going on for me at this point).

Yes Mike, I know the “fear”, I felt it and worried about it until I decided, F-it, they’re gonna have to beat me down to take this medicine away from me.. I think and know that some of that fear is actively promoted on other hepc boards. The one I used to read before I found this, hep central delphi has a moderator that immediately deletes any reference to fixhepc or generics, scolds anyone who mentions it, and writes in big bold letters that it is ILLEGAL to import medicine into the US. She called medicine from China “poison” and equated it to poison chinese dog food. She is suppressing a lot of good information and spreading a lot of misinformation. I have to wonder if she and that board are getting money from Gilead. They also praise Gilead on that board as if it were a benevolent god. Most of the people on that board however seem to for some reason be smug lucky duckies who were given medicine at no cost and with no problems, not sure why. I am concerned though about the active promulgation of misinformation on that board and others that may be dissuading people from getting cured.