Do not skip the next dose.

If side effect free take it at the normal time. If you think you are getting side effects and were dosing in the morning take the next dose in the evening, and the following one at lunch, and the the following back in the morning.

The Government certainly hasn’t made a lot of friends by cutting pathology/medicare rebates etc. I don’t begrudge for one minute the HCV drugs being made available here on the PBS. What I do object to is how they have prettied it all up and made out that EVERYONE will get the drugs. Not so from what I have heard……it will be triaged (and rightly so) and only the sickest will be able to access treatment. I am not an advocate for any Government and have very little respect for our politicians here in Australia, whichever one may be in power at any given time given they change so often It will be interesting to see how much money is available to our public hospitals to be able to provide the meds to their patients. Here in Bendigo there is a very very long waiting list for the treatment. I was still on a waiting list for 13 months just waiting for an appointment until I rang the Hospital to tell them to take me off the waiting list as I didn’t need their services. The list I was on was to get an appointment at the Medical Clinic who would then have to refer me to the liver clinic, and goodness knows how long that wait would have been.

I am eternally grateful to James Freeman and his team in Tasmania and also the people on this Forum for the continued support. Not long now until I have my SVR 12 test……..

Beaches I pretty much breezed through my treatment with Sof/Led….and yes if you drink plenty of water it certainly helps the headaches. My energy levels are so much better now too…..feel “different”…calm….and much more alert. All the best for the coming months…

I would get the full 24 weeks and take that much of two DAAs. With the RIBA the benefits are probably marginal. 24 weeks Rx in both GT1 and GT3 seems to yield similar results with or without RIBA. Treating ASAP should be your priority. Getting the meds into pretty much anywhere is possible without the need for travel. Which country?

Great news to hear…..I also never get tired of hearing of people’s wonderful progress

http://hcvadvocate.org/hepatitis/factsheets_pdf/viralload.pdf

Just to confuse matters the conversion factor varies!

But <40 copies is roughly <10 or <15 - that is at the current technical limits.

With COBAS Taqman you can have <15 (detected) and <15 (not detected - which really means <5 or <10 rather than absolute zero)

Great news Ariel……nice tatt by the way

In the west IU/ml is the common thing we use (except where it is Hep B and both IU and copies get reported!!!!)

Provided that the units are known conversion is easy.

And regardless of units BIG NUMBER -> small number is good!

Hello Hope,

The normal LFTs are good. The other things need to be looked at by a doctor – first totally ignoring the fact you have/had Hep C and then considering what if any role the medication might be playing.

Haemochromatosis is an iron overload disease that can hide behind other liver diseases. It usually turns up in women after menopause because the blood loss each month keeps it under control.

Nobody should have blood in their urine so this should be investigated.

The ESR, CK and CEA are all somewhat non specific, but at the end of the day most people sit in the normal range for most tests and if you’re tests are outside those ranges it may just be you, but it may also be significant.

Get a good doctor to look at it for you.