Lab Results Interpretation Help, Please

[wyntre9]

Hello everyone.

Can someone please tell me if these results are promising?

Before I started tx, my lab results from 11/14/06 were as follows:

Hep C Quantitiation 1,140,000 IU/mL

HCV log10  6.057 log10  IU/ml

(Is the first number my viral load?)

The results I got today from 1/16 bloodwork are:

Hep C Quantitation 93,200  IU/mL

HCV log10  4.969  log10  IU/mL

Thanks in advance,

Wyntre

[sfbaygirl]

Geez, we are almost the same finish dates, maybe. I have 8 plus 24 which is 32 weeks more. Gosh that sounds so awful to me! my patience is Nil. My daughter in law says I have negative patience. This isn't good. There could be some dead bodies by the end, and it won't be mine! I really want to stop at 48 and it is taking every thing I have to continue. As I said, the sx are worse now than a few weeks ago and I am unbearable to live with. Maybe I need to find a bear cave and hover in there with some nice bear for the winter...otherwise no one in my family will survive!

[FlGuy]

The one thing you know for sure is und at 20. All else is cloudy.  I'm doing ok, lethargic, fuzzy and grumpy - but bearable. ANC and hgb both fairly stable and no P or N yet but both at low range levels which, oddly, makes me more comfortable.  I really think that more tolerability, this tx, is due to the switch to Pegasys.  But 33 to go and a lot can happen.  Hang in there, no matter what happens you'll be done in a few months, not a lot of months.

[sfbaygirl]

How are you doing!! Miss ya! So are you saying you are going 44 weeks after UND, which was at week 2 if I remember correctly. The pisser is I dont' really know when I was UND. It could have been at week 12. Remember that conversation we had about me getting a week 10 and if it wasn't UND, I would get another at week 12? Well, my GI said I was UND at week 10, so I never got that week 12 PCR. That Lab screwed up my results and I can't go back and redu them now. So I could be stuck with 72 weeks because of it. Am I angry? Yes. Ready to sue? Maybe. At least for my extended tx if no ins. will pay for extending. That is the whole thing right now. Will the ins. co pay for continued tx. I have been having those end of 48 week awful sx's, and haven't followed through on getting to C2C or much else. Fatigue rules these days. Yeah, it would be nice to know a number, John and I are argueing about 60 v.72. He hates this tx as much as I do.

How is tx doing for you? Sx's? No Neulasta I know, LOL! How's the Hgb and ANC? Are you able to get about and work etc?

[FlGuy]

I think the editor (Jim) was doing some self-editing with the stars. Or, MedHelp's tools are getting more sophisticated and Jim spelled the name with the wrong vowel.

[sfbaygirl]

Are they starring DR's names now? Yes, I want to tx with that group. I need to do due diligence and see the dr. my ins. co wants me to see first that is in our group, although Dr. F is in our network, not in our group. So I figure I will do a Jim and go to three Hep dr's and get all confused. LOL...No, I just want to get all those good, or not, opinions and make up my mind. If I decide to go with Gish's group, my appellate attny will draft the brief as to why they should pay....   The ins co sent a letter denying my claim for services from CPMG, now I need to appeal. As long as someone goes along with the recent studies and pays for my tx, I will be happy! You know what? My palms aren't nearly as red when I don't post so much! LOL

[FlGuy]

Even at your current weight 1000 mg is about 15mg per kg, which is the sort of the high end of the usual riba dose range (usually 13 - 15 mg per kg) and you seemed to have achieved hgb equilibrium - sort of.  Und at 20, and if you head to 72 that's 42 weeks of UND.  That's got to sound like a reasonable target. (BTW, I'm out afer 44 weeks on und).  Good luck with the decision.  It get easier when you settle in with a no-doubt, non-stop, no-quit number in mind.