Thats wonderful to hear LG. It’s so nice to watch all the lovely people on here getting better!
I learn so much from you all. So many wise and kind souls here.

I think I need a plan B and a plan C.
There are two possible snafus…one, they delay the listing….the other, my specialists refuses to prescribe straight away because I’m “mild”.
Or both, in a worst case.
But on the whole I am in a very fortunate position in every respect, being here in Australia.
So I shouldn’t stress about it.
It’s annoying though to put yourself back “in their hands” once you had psyched yourself up to take control.

I used to get terrible psoriasis just under the liver area (strangely)…the only thing that got rid of it was skin brushing (slightly wet). It does much more for my general skin quality that any external cream ever did. I think it helps your skin to excrete the toxins your liver can’t manage. Skin is your third kidney after all.
Periods have been occasional and scant for years, slowly petering out.
Last ultrasound said bleeding ovarian cysts but those apparently are nothing serious.
Still not in treatment. Looking forward hopefully to the PBS listing, but terrified of being warehoused.
Maybe I’ll still end up on generics.

Interestingly Australia has some of the highest levels of Vit D deficiency around, in spite of all the sunshine.
Possibly because we are trained to cover up at all times for fear of skin cancer.
I’m a bit curious too now about B 12 levels, which are a bit harder to check up on online.

It’s pretty astonishing to me how little interest has been shown in monitoring my Hep over the years. My GP seemed to think if the liver functions were okay thats an end to it, but reading everyones stories now I realise this was far from the truth. My experiences of symptoms are too similar for them to be a coincidence so clearly, even when its not actively destroying your liver, the Hep is still taking its toll.

What I was really wondering is whether Ledipasvir fits into the category CYP3A4 type med at all, or whether its totally different, and thus not having the same contraindications as Daclatasvir.

In fact I’m sure the hot water with citrus added every morning (two pints!) is what has kept my liver functions normal.

Ah well hopefully we’ll have so much energy we’ll be able to run around to burn it all off

This is an interesting question. We’ve established that Dac interacts with several very common food stuffs…most notably grapefruit. Is there any similar issues with Ledipasvir? I’ve looked around but so far all I can see is pharma contraindications for Led.
My intuition would say the meds would work better on an easily digestible, not too heavy and fatty diet. Just because there would be less clogging in the liver to penetrate.

I eat a lot of Miso…soy is very different when its fermented.
Normal soy I avoid anyway…it’s mostly pretty toxic….but Miso…
Do I need to forgo it on Dac? And Led as well?
I might choose Led if I can still eat Miso.