Haven't been here for a while, so I'm updating my situation.
I used to post as Bthompson4, but couldn't get that password working.
I got a liver transplant January 2001 with hep c 1b genotype. Did 72 weeks of tx from June 2006 to November 2007, peg-intron and riba. Did not clear until week 20 (bad, I know) and relapsed a month after stopping.
Anyway, my liver is doing great even with the failed treatment. I was stage 2 fibrosis (and therefore was approved for treatment) in June 2005, a year before starting treatment. I had two biopsies nine months and fifteen months after starting treatment that both showed minimal scarring.
Here is a before/after of some of my numbers pre-treatment and the labs I did yesterday.
June 2006: AST 60; ALT 93; BIL 2.4; ALBUMIN 4.1; CREATININE 1.0; PLTS 224,000
July 2010: AST 52; ALT 57; BIL 1.8; ALBUMIN 4.3; CREATININE 0.9; TLTS 227,000
Not bad, eh? Looks like I will easily make it to Vertex's release, at least I hope so. I haven't seen my hepatologist at the transplant clinic for two years, as for some reason he doesn't want to see me, even for a biopsy, although he gets my lab results regularly. Last biopsy two years ago showed minimal scarring, but probably not much worse now considering my relatively low enzymes the last two years. I guess the upshot is that even with the "failed" treatment you can get lucky and reverse liver damage and even maintain some good numbers for a good period of time. I'm also ecstatic about my creatinine being .9 after almost ten years of cyclosporine.
Hope everybody is hanging in there.