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I haven’t seen VL expressed as fmols, do you mean Log¹⁰ scale?
In which case it is a logarithmic progression which I don’t have the skills to explain how to calculate but can supply the below approximations. (Sorry about the wonky columns, too much work to tabulate on an iPad )

Log¹⁰    iu/mL
7.0   10,000,000
6.9    7,943,282
6.8    6,309,573
6.7    5,011,872
6.6    3,981,072
6.5    3,162,278
6.4    2,511,886
6.3    1,995,262
6.2    1,584,893
6.1    1,258,925
6.0 1,000,000
5.9    794,328
5.8    630,957
5.7    501,187
5.6    398,107
5.5    316,228
5.4    251,189
5.3    199,526
5.2    158,489
5.1    125,893
5.0    100,000
4.9    79,433
4.8    63,096
4.7    50,119
4.6    39,811
4.5    31,623
4.4    25,119
4.3    19,953
4.2    15,849
4.1    12,589
4.0  10,000
3.9    7,943
3.8    6,310
3.7    5,012
3.6    3,981
3.5    3,162
3.4    2,512
3.3    1,995
3.2    1,585
3.1    1,259
3.0.   1,000
2.9    794
2.8    631
2.7    501
2.6    398
2.5    316
2.4    251
2.3    200
2.2    158
2.1    126
2.0 100
1.9    79
1.8    63
1.7    50
1.6    40
1.5    32
1.4    25
1.3    20
1.2    16
1.1    13
1.0  10
0.9    8
0.8    6
0.7    5
0.6    4
0.5    3
0.4    3
0.3    2
0.2    2
0.1    1

Hi Pauldavid,

My understanding is that while we all seem to be a bit different there doesn’t seem to be much correlation in the level of symptoms and damage between genotypes with the exception that genotype 3 is thought to be more aggressive in how quickly it impacts as well as more difficult to treat.
Raised liver functions indicate damage occurring so if yours are okay then at very least you are stable but many patients are finding that their fibrosis/cirrhosis scores have improved post treatment so I expect after three years there is a very good chance you will have too despite not being able to test it.

Sadly, I hear you on the ignorance and stigma, though it does appear to be very slowly improving.

Hi nads,

Hopefully Dr Freeman will comment further about your ALT/AST although they can be affected by other things than liver function so your AF and stress of son’s health probably play a part.

But regarding your VL testing, I looked up the test you were given: http://www.hologic.com/products/clinical-diagnostics-and-blood-screening/assays-and-tests/aptima-hcv-quant-dx-assay

if you read through all the detail you will find the below information about its accuracy levels.

The LLoQ of the Aptima HCV Quant Dx assay is 10 IU/mL.

…..it gives accurate quantity readings down to 10iu/mL

The Aptima HCV Quant Dx assay’s Limit of Detection (LoD) is 4.3 IU/mL in plasma (3.9 IU/mL in serum).

…….and detects down to ~4iu/mL

So it appears to be one of the more accurate VL tests. I doubt you will do much better outside of a research lab at this point in time and the Aptima qualitative test is only accurate down to 5.3iu/mL which is very slightly less (but so close it could go either way at those levels).

Linear regression analysis determined 5.3IU/mL ≥(95% probability) as the limit of detection for the Aptima HCV RNA qualitative assay.

http://www.hologic.com/products/clinical-diagnostics-blood-screening/assays-and-tests/aptima-hcv-rna-qualitative-assay

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I believe Monkmed did that at the top of this thread Tweakmax. I can also see Bull Pharmachem has Velasof listed on Indiamart.