Yeah, I saw that on the news Tina, just sickening to see the grin on his face eh,
jim

Hi Sandra, I’m not on Hepincat LP, I’m on Sof/Dac from Mesochem, and everything else(any medications) usually has bad sides for me, thankfully I don’t use any other medicines now, Anti Depressants etc really mad me ill, increased the anxieties etc, I gave them away and just go for walks and eat well.
I didn’t experience many side effects at all from the Sof/Dac, a bit of weirdness on day 4 was all, so no side effects is normal, don’t worry, these meds are the real deal, either Hepincat LP or whatever they have prescribed for you.

Once the trials are finished I think everyone around the world will relax a bit more and taking generics will become much more accepted.

10 days in customs hold up eh, glad to hear they got through eventually, my meds sat on doorstep under doormat for 2 days in 40 degree heat, before I noticed them, I was UND after 4 weeks into tx so don’t stress out, a lot of your anxieties should disappear once the meds start working and you get your life back, mine certainly did in the first 2 weeks of Tx, its kinda weird to feel “normal”,

Good luck for SVR24
jim

Thanks for that Tommy, yes our western diet is far too high in chemicals like sugar, belongs in a car not in a human, dam stuff is poison in my book, the dopamine response and then the downhill run begins,, and we feed it to our kids by the bucket load,, in a hundred years we will look back and say they did what ??? they fed that to their children ??

I’ve got some of my mind back thanks to generics, goodness knows what long term damage has been done though, especially to my liver, time will tell I guess, baby steps for now,
cheers Jim

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Hi Lynne, I am not far off finishing TX as you mention you are, I too have had nagging thoughts and all kinds of anxieties around stopping taking the meds. I have a slight chemical taste in my mouth and can’t wait for that to go away but part of me doesn’t want to stop taking the sof/dac ever. I wan’t to get VLs done on a weekly basis but know its pointless until 4 and 12 weeks after TX, I think my worry is irrational, and try to hang onto the science which I trust a lot more than my damaged mind, And the depression and isolation as well, the not being able to talk about this with anyone, not being able to express our hopes and fears etc, its a whole psychological burden on its own.

As for nagging symptoms I have a few, but I think I had medical stuff going on way before I was infected with HepC, some gastric and psychiatric issues, an inability to put on weight, excema, depression was probably my worst pre infection issue. So for me, a lot of the issues which I had before infection became amplified by HepC it seems, meaning just because I have cleared(hopefully) the virus I still need to watch my diet(avoid foods I was intolerant of before infection) and watch my mental state to avoid falling back into the pit of depression I lived through during childhood.

I found the best guide to my health is the Bristol Stool Chart, when I am in the middle, I am happy and have energy, as Hippocrates said I think all disease begins in the gut, which goes on to effect the mind and the rest of the body,

A subject no one likes to talk about but its been mentioned by inference in a few posts here,
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bristol_stool_scale

When my gut is happy my skin tone improves, I start to sweat again, my BO stinks like it should, and most anxieties go away, but yes I too am quite anxious about the end result, and I am not the best patient. No wonder so many doctors told me I was untreatable, being born with so many allergies did not make early life easy, my poor mom was at a wits end trying to feed me at all. When tested for allergies I was apparently showing reactions to the “control” test, so they gave up trying to figure out what I was allergic to,, just gave me a long list of foods and substances to avoid, almost impossible to adhere to in this world.

So long as I eat right, my gut is happy and so generally is my head. In my case I think I have food intolerance totally unrelated to HepC and so watch my diet very carefully. I can apparently eat a lot of the foods I used to avoid, but choose not to rock the boat so to speak, always my guts are my guide, literally.

As for Tx itself I had virtually no sides apart from disturbed sleep punctuated by lurid and weird dreams, but I guess I normally dream like this and just don’t recall the dreams when I sleep more deeply,

Hope this helps somewhat,
good luck and regards
Jim

“Don’t it always seem to go, you don’t know what you’ve got till its gone”
So glad to be rid of hepc, never knew what it was doing until I got it out of my body, shoot for the stars, hopefully SVR24 and onward lol
Love Joni aye Magpie thanks for that memory
Jim

Yes isaing4 we are lucky in that sense in Australia, but a very expensive waste of money which could be going elsewhere if we chose to use generics. Politics ARGH,,,, I hope also some governments overseas will decide to open the back door also and let in the the generics from the Beacons, Inceptas and Natcos etc, we can dream perhaps,,,

South Africa showed the way with HIV, I hope some people in power can see the logic of a population that is cured of hepc and can once again contribute instead of drowning in this miserable viral curse for years on end.

Speaking to various liver clinics in Sydney they have 2-3 month waiting lists already for the DAAs from Greeead, they also do not intend to ramp (put on more staff) up as on the DAAs we need little management, people I know are still logging into gp2u to get scripts, a month or two or three or four of new life is worth every penny, one person actually said to me “why should the taxpayer foot the bill for my stupid mistake 30 years ago, I can afford it so I am going ahead with gp2u and getting cured long before the liver clinics in Sydney can see me”

And yes I agree without Dr James intervention and Greg Jefferies ground breaking work we would not be where we are now, Australians of the year votes for the pair of em, the bloody UN and WHO should be thanking them for goodness sakes.

Subvert the dominant paradigm ! Always ask “WHY?” and always ask WHY NOT?

jim