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Enkel wrote:
Ah my count down is 60
Why not invented a one month treatment.
As I understand, your 2 weeks viral load is 60. Yay!
Well done!
My genotype 1b and Twinvir colleague in hep C!
I am waiting my 4 weeks viral load!
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I had always a problem with the cholesterol, since my 20s . High cholesterol.
hmy:
This means that it is harder to treat hep C because I ‘offer’ more transportation for viruses?
Thanks!
I have 4 weeks of treatment!
I always felt good at physical level. Diagnosed accidentally in 2015 with mild elevated ALT/AST. After 40s, I had basic blood tests every year and all was in normal range till December 2010. I couldn’t believe what is happening to me. And yes GAJ, as you, I didn’t tell almost anybody my problem. Antisocial behavior, fear of misunderstanding. Don’t know from where I got hep C. Maybe cesarean in 1989. That’s the way my daughter came to us. Maybe from the dentist.I know that I had hep C for at least 26 years. Even with good basic blood tests. I know that my emotional problems were Hep C related. I am blessed with a wonderful family and especialy with a patient and loving husband. After I was diagnosed, the only good news was that my beloved family is hep C free. And it is till now!
I refused IFN in 2012. Because I had hope for new options to come in the near future. And I was right. The generics are here and are affordable for many many people, even if their rulers decided that they are too healthy to be treated.
It is amazing how I get used with this burden of hep C!
Only after 3 days on tx I felt a relief in the liver. After 7 days on tx I felt myself more light, as I put down a backpack with at least 5 kg in it! I felt the relief only when the burden was gone! At the emotional level the improvements are more amazing. I am calm and confident. I feel as I am back in time, feeling more alive as in childhood! Yes again, as you are feeling GAJ.
Don’t miss to mention that my mind is much more clear! I am back to easy memorising! The last years I thought it was aging the cause of losing easy memorising and sometimes needing some seconds to remember words.illy:' /> I didn’t have side effects. Maybe because I want it, the miracle treatment, so much!
I feel the world much more brighter now! Like I opened a closed window.Sorry for this long essay! I felt that maybe, other people will be helped reading this. As I definitely was by yours!
Happy that I found this supporting community!
Good luck and be all of you healthy again!
Hi Phoenix,
Good luck and UNDETECTED soon!
And let us know your journey toward being healthy again!
Hi zhuk,
Yes chance is on your side. Good start position.
Get rid of all remaining viruses!
The only side effect I noticed is gaining weight!illy:' />
Hi London Girl, You are almost there, beginnig of the treatment.
I am sure it will be an easy one for you too.
The only side effect I noticed is that I am gaining weight! I must pay attention to what and how I eat!
Hi Ariel the mermaid
and welcome,
Wish you good luck and let us know your journey!
With these new medicines it will be an easy one.
Hi Debs and welcome,
Happy for you!
You will see it is really an amazing treatment. So powerful and in the same time so easy!
Good luck and let us know your improvements!
Hi Life, Indeed ‘It’s my Life’ and yours and everybody’s LIFE.
”It’s now or never
I ain’t gonna live forever
I just wanna live while I’m alive”Thanks for your optimistic story and for the music.
I am only a beginner on treatment but try to do my best!
Happy New Year 2016!
Hi CJ,
So happy for junior and for you, as mom.
Life can be so beautiful. And it will be!
Happy New Year 2016!
Hi Sonix,
Thanks for sharing your tx story!
Happy for your improvements.
Undetectable as soon as possible and stay so forever.
Happy New Year to all!
”James-Freeman-facebook” wrote:2) The advice re prolongation of treatment based on HCV viral load monitoring is incorrect. There is no relationship between on-treatment monitoring and treatment outcome (assuming high level adherence, as in clinical trials). In fact, many patients in clinical trials have had “detectable” HCV RNA at end-of-treatment and still achieve sustained viral clearance. There is clearly no relationship between week 4 (or other timepoints) and sustained viral clearance, so extending treatment duration (as we did with interferon-based treatment) does not make sense in the interferon-free era..
Thank you Dr. James.
This is one of my major concerns. If 12 weeks is enough to cure hep C in my case. You pointed out very clear that there’s no need to the prolongation of the treatment based only on viral load during treatment.
By the way mine VL was big at the beginning. That’s why I decided to get rid of the viruses.
But being on generics is important at psychological level to check if treatment is going in the right direction.illy:' />
I have a question, please!
On my blood test paper is written:
method of work limit of detection in the field of linearity ( measurable ) 45 UI/ml
analytical sensitivity 15 UI/mlWhy the measurable limit of detection is not equal with the sensitivity? When UND the viral load is < then 15 UI/ml or <45 UI/ml? Thanks! I just want to know how good is my lab.
I just received 2 weeks viral load, down to 514 from 9 mil. Yay!
I know, there are targets to be achieved, the first UND and SVR24. But right now I am confident that cure is possible for me.
Happy New Year and be all cured in 2016!
zhuk wrote:I should finally start tx on Friday,on the Redemption-2 trial…got a few anticipatory butterflies too lol
Hi Zhuk,
Happy for you!
The world will not be the same after starting the treatment! It will change in a good way.
Happy new year and happy treatment!