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SVR
I got a call from my doctor’s office this morning; they confirm that six months after completion of treatment, I remain HCV RNA negative… SVR!
54 year old Caucasian male
GT-1
Low viral load (~125,000 IU/mL)
Diabetes type 2
Grade 3, stage 3/4 fibrosis
Treated with Pegasys/riba for 56 weeks; slow initial viral response, so increased riba to 1800 mg/day. Relapsed within 30 days post treatment.
Treated again with Peg-Intron (~204 µg/week) and riba (2g/day) for 96 consecutive weeks. I completed treatment July 16, 2008.
I’d like to thank the forum for all the help over the last several years; this would have been a very difficult and confusing journey without this discussion group.
Good luck to everyone here; I hope you all eventually prevail,
Bill
54 year old Caucasian male
GT-1
Low viral load (~125,000 IU/mL)
Diabetes type 2
Grade 3, stage 3/4 fibrosis
Treated with Pegasys/riba for 56 weeks; slow initial viral response, so increased riba to 1800 mg/day. Relapsed within 30 days post treatment.
Treated again with Peg-Intron (~204 µg/week) and riba (2g/day) for 96 consecutive weeks. I completed treatment July 16, 2008.
I’d like to thank the forum for all the help over the last several years; this would have been a very difficult and confusing journey without this discussion group.
Good luck to everyone here; I hope you all eventually prevail,
Bill
Better late than never (tha's me, finding this thread, not you clearing).
Great news my friend. Goofydad forgot the part about studying Spanish at your local college on tx. Did you ever get those math classes started? Talk about brain power added to will power. Willing talked about the pills lined end to end. I think about all those needle pricks. Hard to find a good spot after 96 weeks.
Goes to show how one can clear if he has a medical team to stand beside him and see thim through.
Now forward to bigger and better things.
Be well, my friend
bean
Great news my friend. Goofydad forgot the part about studying Spanish at your local college on tx. Did you ever get those math classes started? Talk about brain power added to will power. Willing talked about the pills lined end to end. I think about all those needle pricks. Hard to find a good spot after 96 weeks.
Goes to show how one can clear if he has a medical team to stand beside him and see thim through.
Now forward to bigger and better things.
Be well, my friend
bean
wow, I had no idea you were such a trooper.....beat that horse good and dead didn't ya!!!
congrats for sure Bill. were you type 1 a or 1 b? Inquiring minds want to know.
Also 1800 and then 2g riba?? Yuk!! Are your kidneys still ok???
Remember the Lindahl study showed high SVR at those doses but lost 20% to kidney failures. Did they keep a close monitor on that the whole time? I've got a kidney infection right now in week 68....so I'm doubly curious.
thanks
mb
congrats for sure Bill. were you type 1 a or 1 b? Inquiring minds want to know.
Also 1800 and then 2g riba?? Yuk!! Are your kidneys still ok???
Remember the Lindahl study showed high SVR at those doses but lost 20% to kidney failures. Did they keep a close monitor on that the whole time? I've got a kidney infection right now in week 68....so I'm doubly curious.
thanks
mb
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