Thank-you DT, yes I think i am in shock!
Good to hear your opinions and your own experience, thank-you.

I am not thinking so clearly right now, there I was, thinking I had it sorted and really optimistic and wham – Have to consider treatment options all over again. Hoping the scan nxt weekend will give a more clear picture.
I have always suspected my F score was wrong .

Hi M, Yes, it was Dr F who thankfully took the time to notice things weren’t right and looked into my blood tests pre tx.

As I say, I had looked into bloods myself a while ago and asked questions at every consultation I could, but was met with ‘You are mild fibrosis, you can wait’ without any testing, nothing! I got in touch with my previous brilliant consultant, a Professor, now retired. he told ne to get an USound and to ‘push’ for treatment.(just had that, they said they couldn’t see any cirrhosis ). It seems now, the new HepC consultants just glance at your last fibro and then put you back on hold. This is why I decided to take matters into my own hands and start treatment, instinct and quite a bit of reading. The time difference with Aus is a little tricky, I am just aware that I need to order some meds and soon, in case anything goes wrong with delivery and just talk it over a bit, you know?

Have changed uk consultant now who is being very helpful, but it’s always worth asking for fellow patient experience no? It does help me to think more straight. I thank you all for that

Thx Ariel

The concern could be natural resistant genes, malabsorption or fibroscore closer to or actually F4.
Have never trusted that last fibroscan, but my requests don’t reach the powers that be’s ears.
As it stands I am am a slow responder and one of the 1-3% who don’t respond like everyone else
Next VL test is 10 weeks, I’d rather have one at 9 , but hey ho Need to see what results do and I feel, try to get a gene test for mutants! not sure how to go about it. I have an MRI nxt weekend, maybe that could throw some light on the subject.
Wary of collecting more ‘mutants’ !
Looks like I’ll deffo be doing 6 months, not 3 .

BIG 2 all.

Not good news this end, VL still detected – 68 at week 7ish (day 46)
It’s steadily decreasing, but slowly.
All LFTs normal

Mean corpus haemoglobin (MCH) up a small amount.

Feeling rather down and still suffering sinusis, headaches (even after paracetamol) , blocked nose, teeth ache, tinitis and loss of appetite.

Has anyone else been detected at this stage at this kind of amount?
Looks like I’m in a small minority.
Looking at the figures, I hope to be UND at week 8, it’s been going down at around 100 ish a week since week3. Thank God no NHS 8 week restriction. Will need to ask all Drs advice and decide what to to this weekend.

Well dt, all these can contribute to an easier time of it with a little effort. My last ‘bruise’ was about 12″ long by 4″ wide – black and yellow, with a spectacular lump in the middle on the vein where they drew blood around the size of a gob-stopper – and it hurt like hell for 2 weeks – So although I dealt with it at the time, although not without some anxiety, I didn’t really fancy that option the next time round I must say ! We can but try