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  • in reply to: Who here has meds/access and isn’t treating? #5016
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    Sounds like they’ve got a ‘roo or two loose in the top paddock to me. They must be mad as a cut snake.

    in reply to: Who here has meds/access and isn’t treating? #4947
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    But especially useful when you can’t remember someone’s name. Or, in my case, usually their face either.

    “G’day mate. Yeah good to see you too mate. Okay, catch ya later mate.”

    (Walk off thinking to myself “who the hell was that?”;)

    Mate. The brain foggers friend.

    in reply to: Who here has meds/access and isn’t treating? #4941
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    As it happens, one of our US comrades who is currently here for treatment has asked me to teach her some of the local lingo when we go on a jaunt up the coast next week. So……..

    It makes me want to spit the dummy when these dipsticks, drongos, drop kicks, galahs and mongrels come the raw prawn with us.

    They’re as useful as tits on a bull.

    Bunch of wowsers the lot of them.

    The drugs will be available any day now? Pig’s arse!

    If they tell you to wait, tell ’em they’re dreamin’.

    in reply to: Emilio’s Place #4866
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    As they say, good things come to those who wait. Jolly good, em.

    in reply to: After treatment #4840
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    Hmmm….not sure. I do know:

    – we get taken off the notifiable diseases list
    – we still can’t donate blood or organs I think because we still have antibodies
    – you can sign up to body bequest programmes whether you’re hep c + or not (technically you can’t if you’re positive but they don’t actually care). Saves on funerals! I’m gonna end up in a big vat of formaldehyde at the University of Tasmania. :lol:

    in reply to: What’s best info for specialist on generics? #4625
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    He needs the Sof because dac is no good on its own. But the Prof I assume is a liver specialist so he’ll know that. Maybe riba too but that won’t be a problem. I don’t know of any comp access available ATM other than the BMS dac. I think the Abbvie programme is done and haven’t heard of Gilead offering anything. It’s almost 4 months now since Royal Hobart agreed to put me on the dac comp access programme knowing I would be taking it with generic Sof. And last I heard, BMS didn’t care that people were using their dac with generic Sof.

    But note that the Prof probably won’t be able to write a script for generic Sof in his capacity as a public clinic liver specialist. You may be able to see him privately to get it which is what I did. Or you can go through James or somebody else who will write it.

    in reply to: What’s best info for specialist on generics? #4616
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    The BMS dac compassionate access programme is still running in Hobart and it was nationwide I believe. If I got it, he should definitely be eligible. Then he’d just need the Sof.

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    Woohoo!

    Weird ain’t it?

    The feeling like I’ve lost my security blanket has started to subside but that didn’t stop me from asking for a test round the 6 – 8 week mark when I saw the liver nurse today. (Hb was completely normal for people on riba- actually up on what my 2 week count was.)

    :blink:
    I said to her that I don’t think I’ll accept it’s really gone (assuming it is) until about the 12 month mark.

    in reply to: Goodbye me little lovelies #4224
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    I should add that I think the downside of the Riba has been kicking in over the last two weeks. Been short of breath, bit fatigued and right quadrant abdo discomfort. Which is disconcerting but as I understand you can’t go backwards on treatment, I’m not letting it worry me.

    Anyway, I’m going to get an FBC done tomorrow when I go in for my eot VLs and will report back the results for the benefit of others on riba. Doubt I’m anemic but like Greg, I think I might be heading that way. I had an FBC at 2 weeks when everything was comfortably normal so the comparison will be interesting. It hasn’t been unpleasant being so close to the end. But if it is the riba, don’t think I’d like to be doing 24 weeks of the stuff.

    Really, the entire treatment has been a doddle.

    in reply to: Goodbye me little lovelies #4221
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    :lol:

    No my “little lovelies” are the drugs. Not you guys. I’m not gonna just eat and run.

    Not that you aren’t a little lovely too Joy. :kiss:

    Does no one remember Aunty Jack? God knows, most of ya are old enough! :P

    Goodbye, me little lovelies! And don’t forget to tune in next week to the show, because if you don’t, I’m going to come round to your house, and I’m going to rip your bloody arms off. And I will too. Don’t forget it.

    in reply to: US Importation …. Legal or Not #4202
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    Great news Henry. Onward and upward.

    Geez it bugs me the way all these anti generic forums (and it’s the same with the ones here) censor information about generics without notification or comment. Posts, user accounts are just disappeared. Who do these people think they are? Gilead’s private secret frickin’ police? It’s so weak and cowardly. I can only conclude they behave like this because they don’t have good enough arguments to logically and rationally debate their position.

    So to all the Gilead Secret Police out there, grow a set and come here and duke it out with us if you think you’re so bloody right.

    in reply to: Young J the dragon slayer #3867
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    Oh my god they must cure teenageism as well! :ohmy: :lol:

    in reply to: Why am I afraid to take the medications? #3835
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    As you ramble on through life
    Whatever be your goal
    Keep your eye upon the donut
    And not upon the hole.

    in reply to: Emilio’s Place #3812
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    Your first problem with velpatasvir berri will be finding a generic maker who doesn’t need a script for it. Don’t think it’s TGA approved yet so no one in Oz will be able to prescribe it. Think the FDA has either just approved it or is close to doing so.

    in reply to: Emilio’s Place #3808
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    klhilde wrote:

    What happened? Shouldn’t the cast be off soon? Did they do surgery?

    Comes off Tuesday thank god. I can use it for a lot of things but the cast won’t let my wrist flex so still not much good for typing.

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