Boceprevir I love you, I am getting pretty close

[spectda]

I started the trial with a four week lead in of soc, geno 1a f 2.5, grade 3,

Day 1 VL:  2,650,000
Week 2 VL 236,000
Week 4 VL 69,800
week 6 (after 2 weeks of starting boceprevir)
VL 246

[Diane12855]

I asked my doctor if it had to be just water or any fluid, and I was told any fluid, including fluids in foods like melons, etc. The reason being: When we eat or drink something, it goes into the digestive tract... the stomach does its churning thing where everything is mixed together, and then everything is pushed into the small intestine where it is mixed with digestive juices from the pancreas and bile from the liver. Then as it moves into the small intestine, the first thing absorbed is the water... not all of it obviously, or things would get too hard to move, but when it goes through the walls of the small intestine, it is pure H2O. Nothing else gets into the blood stream until the enzymes and all that good stuff has their chance to break everything down into their molecular components so our body can use it.

I know I left out a step or two, but that is basically why as I understand it.

Diane

[spectda]

Thanks for the kind words. try the white rice vinegar! LOL It really helped my mouth sores. I never drank it, just gargled with it.

I think it is important to drink a lot of water rather then other liquids or in addition to them. Water's detoxifying properties are well known. I am certainly not an expert though.

Hopefully in the next few of years the sucess rates from new combos of drugs will go way up, and they will stop using interferon and riba. This stuff is seriously toxic!

I think it's our responsibility to help our friends who have very seriously advanced disease by calling whoever they ask us to call in the fda or drug companies. We could be the ones who are in the same situation soon also.

Be Well - Dave
Be Well - Dave

[kunkielove]

TO DAVE: Hopefully you won't have long to go...i can't believe how much your viral load decrease in 2 weeks!!!  I'm sorry you're not feeling well.  hopefully the way you feel will soon improve.  you've been a great contributor to this forum and so fortunate to be a member of the trial you're on.  Hopefully by the time I'm referred for tx (around Dec probably)  the FDA will have approved the drug.  Best of luck to you in the weeks ahead.  I can't wait to hear your new bloowork results!!  I'll keep you in my prayers and my fingers crosse for  you.  BTW: I'm not a big drinker, A glass of Kool aid could last me hours.  I understand that under tmt we must drink a specifie amt of water.  Does it have to be straight water or could it be ice tea, some kind of drink that you make with water.  Well, if it lessens the side effects, I''ll have to do it. (it can't be much worse than drinking white vinegar (doesn't work) years ago before I had to see my probation officer who never did test me...YUK!!!!)
TO BILL:  I cried when i read your post with the lyrics to that song...a song from my youth also...those were the days!!  Hope all is well with you....you both have a good weekend and God bless you both...God bless all of us here!!!

[GSDgirl]

Way to go!!  It looks like you will have a great outcome!!

Denise

[Diane12855]

AMEN !!!!!!!!!!

Actually, I think the good part of the memories was more the many friends that I used to party with as a teenager. All those close relationships disappear after marriage an motherhood comes along.

[RobertBeWell]

"Memories.... they seemed to be good memories, yet Dave is right, they got us here."

Yah, I honestly wish I had never seen "recreational" drugs as a young teen, but, what can you do. Can't change the past, only the future. If I had it to do over, I'd stay as far away from drugs as I possibly could. In retrospect, I can't see a single good thing I derived from their use.

Thank God I had the sense to stop some 20 odd years ago.