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  • in reply to: Notes for New Zealanders bringing in meds #2684
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    • Guardian Angel
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    @chapel

    Thanks Em. No, I haven’t started taking the meds yet. I’m seeing a nurse linked to a specialist next Friday and I think they want to do some baseline blood tests. Of course I’m keen to get started but I’ll play it their way, the specialist has been pretty helpful so far and they are putting me in the public system.


    M, 57, Live in Wellington,NZ.
    Genotype 1a diagnosed in 2013.
    Treating for the first time since October 31 with Buyers Club Sof/Led. Thanks so much guys. Minimal side effects apart from sore throat at the start..
    Viral load 5.4m when treatment started, Undetected at 4 weeks, 8 weeks, End of Treatment and 12-weeks post EOT. Yay!

    in reply to: Dr Freeman – Please help #1495
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    • Guardian Angel
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    @chapel

    Oh, London I think I might have misunderstood an earlier post from you with the word `doc’ in it, maybe not correct to assume you have a script, sorry.


    M, 57, Live in Wellington,NZ.
    Genotype 1a diagnosed in 2013.
    Treating for the first time since October 31 with Buyers Club Sof/Led. Thanks so much guys. Minimal side effects apart from sore throat at the start..
    Viral load 5.4m when treatment started, Undetected at 4 weeks, 8 weeks, End of Treatment and 12-weeks post EOT. Yay!

    in reply to: Dr Freeman – Please help #1493
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    • Guardian Angel
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    @chapel

    Yes, and it looks like you will have a British script too so you are OK to take delivery.


    M, 57, Live in Wellington,NZ.
    Genotype 1a diagnosed in 2013.
    Treating for the first time since October 31 with Buyers Club Sof/Led. Thanks so much guys. Minimal side effects apart from sore throat at the start..
    Viral load 5.4m when treatment started, Undetected at 4 weeks, 8 weeks, End of Treatment and 12-weeks post EOT. Yay!

    in reply to: where can i get a prescription in the uk? #1469
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    • Guardian Angel
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    @chapel

    This is a known barrier (see http://hepatitisctreatment.homestead.com/generic-harvoni.html) See Getting Treated/How to do it and `Doctors’ above. A foreign script might do it.


    M, 57, Live in Wellington,NZ.
    Genotype 1a diagnosed in 2013.
    Treating for the first time since October 31 with Buyers Club Sof/Led. Thanks so much guys. Minimal side effects apart from sore throat at the start..
    Viral load 5.4m when treatment started, Undetected at 4 weeks, 8 weeks, End of Treatment and 12-weeks post EOT. Yay!

    in reply to: Hep C Treatment Trip #1449
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    • Guardian Angel
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    @chapel

    You can’t expect such certainty about timing with this arrangement. I know I would much prefer ordering and taking delivery from anywhere in Australia vs the rest of Asia, especially as for the moment at least, FixHepC have an established, well tested pipeline. So I would go to say, Perth and arrange delivery to there.


    M, 57, Live in Wellington,NZ.
    Genotype 1a diagnosed in 2013.
    Treating for the first time since October 31 with Buyers Club Sof/Led. Thanks so much guys. Minimal side effects apart from sore throat at the start..
    Viral load 5.4m when treatment started, Undetected at 4 weeks, 8 weeks, End of Treatment and 12-weeks post EOT. Yay!

    in reply to: Testing & compounding #1447
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    • Guardian Angel
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    @chapel

    From Greg Jefferys homestead site
    Sept 20, 2015:

    (Making capsules from API (active ingredient powder)

    Last time we were in touch, I was looking for a doctor to give me a
    prescription for Indian Sofosbuvir. I didn’t find one and ended up
    ordering APIs from Mesochem.

    My Sovosbuvir and Ledipasvir APIs arrived this week and I have been
    looking for a compounding chemist to make up the capsules. I found one
    on Friday afternoon who was happy to make it up (maybe she hadn’t read
    her mail yet). I asked her what the procedure was for encapsulating APIs
    and the system she told me was far simpler and more accurate than
    anything I have come across on the web. I give it here in case you want
    to publish it for anyone else who is in this position.

    She first weighs out the total amount of the API. So in my case, that’s
    400 mg Sofosbuvir + 90mg Ledipasvir for 12 weeks, so 84x400mg = 33.6
    grams of Sof and 84x90mg = 7.56 grams of Led. Note that this does not
    require a multi thousand dollar milligram scale. 1/10th gram accuracy is
    plenty. 1/10th gram over 84 capsules is .1/84 = 1/840 = about 1
    milligram error for each capsule. This is well inside any reasonable
    tolerance. A .1 gm scale costs under $100.

    Then put the weighed APIs into a measuring cylinder. Measuring cylinders
    cost under $10 at any laboratory glassware dealer. Use the smallest that
    will hold the entire batch. Add excipient (e.g. lactose) to the cylinder
    to make up the correct volume. The chemist already knows the correct
    volume, because she’s done this before, but the rest of us have to find
    the correct volume before we start, which is done by carefully filling
    84 capsules with lactose and pouring them into the cylinder. Whatever
    volume results is what we have to make up the final mixture to.

    Pour the API/excipient mixture into a bowl and mix well. This sounds
    like the hardest part of the whole procedure.

    Fill the 84 capsules with the mixture. If everything has been done
    carefully and accurately the mixture will just fill the capsules without
    any waste. If it was thoroughly mixed, the APIs are now distributed
    evenly at the correct dosage over the 84 capsules.

    One thing she mentioned was that 400 mg Sof + 90 mg Led is a lot to put
    in one capsule, and its probably easier to make 168 capsules of 200 mg +
    45 mg (i.e. 2 capsules per day), which is easily done by changing the
    volume the mixture is made up to.
    I left my APIs with her since she said she could have them ready by
    Tuesday, but since I need 24 weeks of therapy, I will probably make up
    the next batch myself.
    …….
    (I should also add that in conversations I have had with two doctors on this subject they have both told me that minor variations in the amount of active ingredient between capsules is not critical. Even with factory manufactured meds the absorbsion of active ingredients by the body varies slightly from day to day so we do not have to worry if one capsule has 400mg of API and the next has 394mg and the next 406 milligrams.)
    ENDS


    M, 57, Live in Wellington,NZ.
    Genotype 1a diagnosed in 2013.
    Treating for the first time since October 31 with Buyers Club Sof/Led. Thanks so much guys. Minimal side effects apart from sore throat at the start..
    Viral load 5.4m when treatment started, Undetected at 4 weeks, 8 weeks, End of Treatment and 12-weeks post EOT. Yay!

    in reply to: Testing & compounding #1369
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    • Guardian Angel
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    @chapel

    Hi William, I researched this a little bit earlier. To my surprise, my local chemist in Wainuiomata agreed to put my powder into capsules as long as I had a prescription from a NZ doctor, but he was very cautious about it. He said it was a first for him, mentioned some wastage, the need to obtain the empty caps to fill and that there would be `a fee.” No doubt much higher than the A$80 it has cost in Aus. He is a common pharmacist not a compounder. No doubt you have tried some of the listed compounders?
    As for testing, perhaps the same prescription requirement would apply at a lab. I did not try to arrange testing of my powder.


    M, 57, Live in Wellington,NZ.
    Genotype 1a diagnosed in 2013.
    Treating for the first time since October 31 with Buyers Club Sof/Led. Thanks so much guys. Minimal side effects apart from sore throat at the start..
    Viral load 5.4m when treatment started, Undetected at 4 weeks, 8 weeks, End of Treatment and 12-weeks post EOT. Yay!

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