I keep sof dac and riba in the fridge,but use a dessicant.We are approaching summer here.Today it got to 33C

Zhuk,Your GP is a cowardly whimp.As for saying she doesn’t know enough about the medications,thats crap,and she shouldn’t be practicing medicine.It’s got nothing to do with her insurance.
Doctors have a computer on their desk with instant access to all the latest “How to treat”Information.And they are all very aware of the generic scenario that is happening.
One suggestion I might make, is to find out which doctors members of the Gay community who have HIV are going to.They have a knack of finding out who is genuinely on their side.
Generally such doctors are likely to be more compassionate,better informed,and are less likely to be adverse to generics.
Many go to conferences on HIV which often include HCV as treatment mechanisms have a lot in common.
Just look for a new GP Zhuk.Sit down and explain what you intend to do,and if there is one iota of hesitation on their part,
get up and walk out.You will find the right one sooner of latter and be very grateful when you do
Good luck.

I think it’s time to start reporting doctors who lie to their patients to their regulatory body.

I couldn’t agree more Alsdad ,although just naming them might be suffiecient.The regulatory body would side with them.
But in essence they are” well meaning killers”,slaves to the propaganda line put out by HepC Aust ,and doctors receiving research grants from Big Pharma etc.or whatever else overseas.
It appears more and more doctors that were once reticent are changing their views,and all encouragement should be accorded them.

Re symptoms which is the essence of this thread.
I did not really take them seriously until 3 days into the sof when they dissappeared like magic.Muscle aches,sleep disturbances,a nightime pain in the chest once or twice,which I thought was a heart attack and wasn’t .Bouts of tiredness, a chronic toothache once that my dentist could find no reason for and wrote me off as neurotic.I just thought they were all part of the ageing process and to cut the crap and live with it.
I have overall never felt so good since starting tx although the riba drags me back a little.
I had the” wait wait “from my GP,and had to bully him into writing some scripts.He now freely writes them out for others and is a convert.
If you can afford it,there is absolutley no sense in waiting.If they were put on the PBS tomorrow there would still be a long queue,form filling and more waiting.

emilio
I made several attempts a few months ago to access simeprevir in India,as i was at the time interested in the sof dac sim combo..I got a number of replies at prices that were unaffordable.

Tweakmax,check your private messages

I seriously wonder whether Daclatasvir (for G1 at least) would be as good over the short course. It has a higher log kill than Ledipasvir.

Hopefully some answers to that question will come from the AASLD conference in mid nov.Like you I will continue to take my sof dac riba for at least 12 wks in the meantime.When you look at the size of some of the subcategories in these results the numbers are sometimes
very small.One must remember in trials like this one of the objects is to overcome the obstacle of the absurd costs Big Pharma are demanding.This criteria does not apply to the same extent when using generics.

But let’s not forget that for most “westerners”, $1000 for a treatment might finally seem like a fair price, but this is still hopelessly out of reach for many people around the world… So, to really bring prices and barriers down, the more manufacturers the better!!

Veroro.This is so true.We westerners on these forums have a tendency to be like kids in lolly shop with these generic prices.
Every year in India thousands of farmers commit suicide because they cannot afford to pay $500 for the seed for next years crop.Its the same in many places in Asia.There won’t be any true justice for many of these people until the price comes down to something near the cost of making the pill.