Hi LG.
Your GP experience is very like my own. When after 3 months, I eventually got a referral to HepC clinic in mid-October, they did blood and viral load tests. Treatment offered included Interferon which I did not want.
That was it. I saw only a nurse, not a specialist. Told to realistically, expect to wait 3 years to access new DAA’s and given an appointment in March 2016. They would not monitor treatment if I bought my own generic medication.
Given the choice between waiting and harbouring this virus for any number of years, and curing yourself for £750.00. I did what more and more people in the UK will do.
I got an appointment with Dr Freeman, obtained my prescription and spoke with Adam at Kingswood Pharmacy who assured me that my meds would be waiting for me when I got to Sydney on 2nd November. They were. A huge big bag of Sof and DAC. I started treatment on 8th Nov and today, after a 2 week wait, I got result of my 4 week liver function and viral load test. ‘Undetected’.
I wil, I pray, be cured at least 6 weeks before my proposed NHS check-up date.
It is very do-able. Dr Freeman and Adam are skilled and helpful people.
It is a very straightforward process which can be achieved, if you have the price of a return ticket to Sydney, within about a week if appointments and flights are available.
Choose a right time for yourself. Taking control took away the stress of dealing with GP’s and waiting, and getting stressed by waiting and charting decline. Give yourself the best possible start to 2016.
Good luck to all.
