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Dear Ariel, Happy reading
I send you
and hugs 
Lots of love, Mrs Grumpy-bottom
Well done, my very best wishes to you for SVR
They should get a big red stamp that says “Shit’s Gone” and stamp it diagonally across all Negative/Undetected results.
– Love it M !So the question to the lab is: “Which (brand/model) assay test do you use for your quantatative PCR RNA test?”
Great – Thanks Gaj the word ‘assay’ is helpful
Didn’t know tests could go down to 10 , I doubt they have that here, local hospital is 12, so pretty good. Private companies have to be checked out, last test I did through one I spent hours on phone chasing results. It seems the way….They take the money and you do the work!
The thing is, we may seem like we moan here in England, but the truth is, regarding services of any kind, it seems to be the way of late, that there is plenty to moan about – Unfortunately. God knows how elderly people cope with it all.
meanwhile…. we are still trying to find a decent private and affordable lab in England that does what it says on the tin
I’ve seen no research that suggests anything other then once you’re UD by week 12 you’ve a 97% chance
of SVR!Is that right? – If so, that’s good news
Hang on a sec, is that week 12 EOT or week 12 post tx?
Mind you there is just so much debate about all this, I still think everyone is still learning and data hasn’t caught up yet.I think it is reasonable to expect a company offering tests to let you know what they’re paying for though – They ain’t cheap!
(edit) I also think it’s very hard for those who have previously failed tx – No doubt very traumatic, this whole thing’s traumatic really.
Hey Ariel
The thing is, on the NHS they will only do a set amount, so if you want another one eg, some of us would like to be able to pay for one privately. We don’t have that many options here for that, extremely expensive and vague details re the testing. My GP has been very supportive, but I am getting expensive! He wont do anything now without my NHS consultant requesting. So I have to ask her, she writes to him, he has to receive it amid no doubt hundreds of other requests, I then need to call the hospital and hope I can get bloods around the date I require and then wait for results. So , if there is a reasonably priced private test you could do alongside this, that would be really helpful. I mean, look at the last time I went to the hospital, they refused to take my bloods over some small bureaucracy (which I think has annoyed my GP). If that happened again, It would really throw a spanner in the works, I guess it would be good to get a reliable private lab organised as back -up.(edit) Hey Splitdog
Qualitative tests are either Detected, or Undetected. However, these tests can only see down to just under 5/ml,
Ahh I seee. So the lab in question says it’s Qualitative, but still <15, so you may as well just do 'Quantitative' ? Or you find a lab that does qualitative <5 ?
Qualitative PCR
15 HCV RNA IU/ml to 6.90E+07 IU/mlNow I’m confused – If it’s ‘Qualitative’ PCR – doesn’t mean it’s there or not? so how can they say up to <15? Isn't that similar to 'Quantitative'?
confused.com !This debate goes on forever !!
Thank-you for your investigations DT & Isaing
I have one test approved by NHS, but I want another one .
Great news Isaing ! I am so very pleased for you
