Hi Phoenix,

Please get LFTs as well. If your ALT is out of range you are probably right, if it is still normal that would be reassuring.

If we need to retreat you that’s possible and can be prompt.

Best

James

Congratulations Honker!!! Enjoy your travels

Hi GF,

Yes there was a blip, but that was it.

While the coverage in the medical press was nice virtually no patients read that sort of thing. What would have been nice, but did not happen was for the New York Times, Washington Post, or Boston Globe to pick up the story and push it into the mainstream media. Sadly the story of generics working was considered insufficiently interesting.

The blips on the traffic chart correspond closely with mainstream media attention, and to get the message out there that’s where it has to appear.

There has been interest from doctors across the world, but that will only result in a slow organic growth. What would really kick it is having patients opening the discussion of generics with their doctors, but for now most patients don’t know it’s a viable option.

I find myself 72.727273% in agreement with Joy, she just uses too many words…..

I’d LOVE to see the whole world cured.

She only missed

….. this year

We have the power to fix hep c. The real question is do we have the will power? The will power to see cure deployed on a mass scale, and deployed now.

Australian of the Year perhaps!

Hi Diplomat,

Your LFTs suggest something else is going on. If it’s not HBV we (as in some doctor or other) needs to work their way down the list of likely suspects. Checking your iron studies would be high on my list of next things to do.

It’s a big list but please have a look at: http://www.medicinenet.com/liver_blood_tests/page7.htm and the following pages. One (or more) of those is probably at root cause.

The key point is that your ALT/AST have not normalised so there MUST be something else driving it (now that we know the HCV is no longer the issue).

Hello Diplomat,

Those LFTs are unusually high for EOT. I would wonder if you have something else going on as well with chronic Hep B being pretty high on the list.

Have you had HepB surface antigen, HepB core antibody, HepB surface antibody done?

You should also have an alpha feto protein (AFP)

If you don’t have Hep B I would be looking for haemochromatosis next – iron studies and if elevated look for the genetic markers.

Your LFTs should be much better than they are – please don’t ignore this. There is something else to find.