There are no shortage of a-holes in any profession, everyone has one.

There is a little saying that goes something like if you lived in my shoes.

I see my lovely daughter working 80-90 hours a week in the hospital doing her internship. I know her goal is not to become a smug know it all a-hole.

Let’s not throw the whole lot to the wolves. JMUO

Guys/gals I have yet to have an appointment with a doctor about VL tests and all. One of the good things about living in TH Was that I could walk into a lab and order tests, they then send results to my email and it’s then on to Dr. Google and of course this site to try and figure it out. No idea what they do in the US yet but here is a snippet from pre meds and four week post mess VL tests in Thailand. I understand that 147 is a lot less than 4.48 million, log equivalent I really do not understand. At some point I hope to see a doc here but it is all out of pocket so am trying to go as far as I can on my own knowledge and with help from here.

Baseline VL before tx > HCV RNA (quantitative) 4480000 IU/mL
Log Equivalent 6.65

VL now > HCV RNA (quantitative) 147 IU/mL
Log Equivilant 2.17

Hi LG

Congrats on the UND

Being new on the forum I quickly saw you are a little Dynamo.

They say that what does not kill you will make you stronger.

So you may want to think about a new moniker name. May I suggest SG (Super Girl)

Thanks for your boundless energy and inspiration.

i guess it’s easy sometimes to blame the doctors when we as patients seem to know more than them about our illness and treatment. I felt the same as I was encountering doctors in Thailand that did not have a clue about the new DAA’s. Now in the US and conversing with my daughter who is doing her internship. She was grateful for all the info I had given her about the generics and Doc Freeman’s work. In turn she said she has passed that info to some of her attending docs that she works under. At present she is working 80-90 hours a week so I do have some compassion if they do not have all the answers. It’s WIP as the word spreads. Just my totally unbiased thoughts. ops:

So very happy for you starting your tx

I’m teary eyed now but it’s all good

HI Semisweet from a fellow American just back to Boston 24 hours ago from long residence in Asia. Also non insured and never thought I would have a chance to get tx in the US so am on generics 4 weeks now with liver tests back to normal and big viral load decrease.

Very happy you got your Meds

There is a saying in India, that every grain of rice has someone’s name on it and I guess those precious Meds had semisweet on them. All the best to you on your journey to SVR.

Apologies Doc

I accidentally downgraded your karma, ick:' /> (damn old eyes) so before I get burned at the stake I want to let you know the karma correction takes six hours.