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12 week test results confused!
I have Hep C Geno 2b. No liver problems. Very slightly elevated alt/ast before treatment, picked up in a cholesterol test. My VL was 2,300,000 when TX began in Sept. At 4 weeks VL was less than 10 iu/ml, and I was tracked for 12 weeks TX. As of yesterday (which was 12 weeks) my VL is up to 250 iu/ml using quantasure plus. I'm very confused about these results and can't see/talk to gastro till appt. Did my VL really go back up? Is this a significant presence or below threshold of the test?
They have not sent me the paper yet. I just got a call. The previous quantasure plus tests (I had 2) say "This test measures HCV RNA in international units (IU) per mL using real-time polymerase chain reaction technology. It quantitates HCV RNA from 10 to 100,00,000 iu/ml."
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