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New Hep C Drug

I have hepatitis C with beginning stage cirrhosis and supposed to be starting treatment with Pegasys, Ribavirin and the new drug Sovaldi as soon as the medication gets approved.  Has anyone been on the treatment with the new drug and what are the side effects like?  
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I started the meds Monday evening with my shot, and is it normal to have a low grade temperature?  It's only like 99.9 but it has been 2 day and it comes and goes.  So far just get body aches, headaches, low grade temperature so far.  Not too bad.  
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thanks Kim, will try to remember all this.  I don't drink any caffeine so that's good but these are some good points.  
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thank you and will take all the prayers I can get:)
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"Nan, hope your husband is doing better."

My husband is doing better, thank you. His creatanine is at 2.21 as of Thursday from a high of 2.9. Hopefully his kidneys will continue to improve and get back to where they were before this IV antibiotic injured them (1.46).
Still can't believe that happened.  I made a formal complaint to the hospital administration. Unfortunately his doctor was out of the country when this happened or I really don't think it would have happened.

His doctor has stopped the procrit so the HE episodes he has had since stopping it have been much shorter in duration and not as severe.  So we are really grateful for that.  The good news is that although the procrit was stopped, the hgb went up from 8.8 to 9.1 on it own.  

My best wishes for all who celebrate for a Happy Easter and/or a Happy Passover.

Nan
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Jimmy, looking forward to seeing your VL results.  I am UND on my last labs and probably was at 4 weeks.  I'm over halfway thru tx. :)  Hoping we all find SVR.  Nan, hope your husband is doing better.  Happy Easter
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"GT2 2nd week tx SOV/RBV  AST ALT dropped from  109,150  to 22, 25 PLATELETS 88 to 115,  hgb 16.7 to 15.5, NEUTROPHILS 2.3 to 3.7 and . waiting on VL results 6 day delay. "

Hey Jimmy
Those are great week 2 results. You must be excited!

Nan
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