Been a while since I swam on by
So here’s a song for a couple of friends who have my heart
And the rest of us?
Watching and feeling all the feels.
Knowing about the fear…
knowing about waiting…
and knowing about living our best lives.

Hi Cristine
I sweated too and was also strangely constipated a tad during the first week or so
I was pretty sure I was clear after the first week! I did an early blood pull at Day 25 but had a Noah’s Ark Lab so redid it with a great lab and it came back PCR RNA undetected! Maybe you are also clearing very fast! Flippers and fins crossed for you here
Sounds good to me!
Not sure about the foods, I was a farmer for years and so lucky to grow my own food and have pure rain water to drink. Recently sold up the farming life in exchange for a Beachhouse so I can enjoy no more big machinery jobs and go surfing lots! (If it’s possible to surf more than I always did haha)
Please keep posting your treatment notes and thoughts and experiences we will be here to help support you towards UND and SVR
happy Splashes from Ariel

Dear Beahaven
I’m sporting very beautiful expensive chompers a bridge on one side post tx and yep a couple of root canals that were emergency and some other fix up stuff. After all the meds, peginf, riba, corticosteroids, Sof/led I had mouth thrush treated for ages and then bam! Abscesses times two! I paid for my smile and no falseys I am younger than you but I don’t think it matters about age. I’m very proud of my beautiful smile back and every time I smile it’s a reminder of how lucky I am! Yes it cost about $10,000 AUS but I have health insurance which covered half and I am just happy to be HCV free. I haven’t had any further teeth issues since this happened shortly after SVR 24.
I’m sure others have had teeth issues well actually I know they have!
Good luck paying for the dentists next overseas five star holiday haha we all know that feeling huh!
Sending goodvibes from Ariel

Hi Nick
We are all looking forward to you starting tx obviously!
I hope you get your meds soon and start your journey to success!
With your labs you can create a “signature” by going into your own profile and popping up the basic info about your labs and history if relevant.
It’s a terrific way of creating a snapshot of the awesome progress made on tx and beyond. I put my milestones in mine like achieving undetected and SVR as well as my liver functions which were always okay but just got ridiculously good!
You can see all our signatures under our posts to you and on the forum.
With your labs I am sure you’ll be dancing in the sun really soon when you’re on tx and getting your first HCV PCR RNA UND!
Sending you happy vibes
Ariel

Hi Doc
Are these stats related to any person treated or not treated who has lived with HCV?

If my mean life expectancy from all people who have been infected by HCV is 70 then I better change a lot of things!

I’m in my fifties and cured of HCV via DAAs and had hoped that would make my life expectancy in range with all people with a healthy lifestyle. Could you please clarify the precise cohort of the quoted stat? I’m sure a lot of people would be interested to know!

Thanks.
Ariel

Hi there Cristine
How much water does a camel need to cross the Sahara ? That’s how much I think I drank!! My blog has my tx story it’s buried here somewhere “Ariel Takes the Plunge” that was over two years ago and yep I drank sooooo much water! And sweated a lot for a week then I was cured super fast.
I’m no doctor but I don’t think it matters when you take the pill I would check with Dr Freeman if you’re concerned
In the meantime welcome and wishing you the best outcome
Keep posting your updates this is the right place for support through your tx and to SVR
Happy Splashes to you from Ariel

Hi Balance
Thanks for the cool message I actually have been away at the Rip Curl Pro Bells Beach and enjoyed watching Mick Fannings last ever Pro comp. So you’re on the money there my tail has been flipping around a lot!
I would like to thank you for your candid and illuminating description of peginf riba I was exactly the same. It almost took my life I had emergency potassium to stop my heart going into hypokalemia. I was pulled off because of that at 43 weeks. Severe neutropenia, moderate thrombocytopenia, abnormal morphology lymph cells yes it was vile. I’m never sure what to blame now for anything that pops up! Peginf is my go to punching bag for anything haha! Aren’t we lucky the DAAs came along phew!! I’m in Oz but despite our country being one of the first to give access I got in early and got cured here via FHC no waiting around for this lil Duckie! I’m so happy I chose the generic route and I didn’t have to go to India, which I was in the midst of planning when I was told about here. The rest is history and I am cured for over two years!
Little things still pop up occasionally but I deal. We certainly get tough facing the challenges of the whole HCV experience no matter what how where why when etc along the way I believe we are all tougher because of the experience.
I’ll be looking forward to your posts
Happy Splashes from Ariel