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Depression after EOT - End of Treatment
Nov 15, 2008 06:39PM in the Hepatitis Social Community
You know, going over all this again in my mind, it was the people on this forum who got me through the whole tx trauma - through the time of being on tx and also post tx. When I was really stuck I'd post here about it and sure enough there was always somebody out there who had some wisdom about it and who cared enough to reply. No matter how vague, obscure ...
Depression after EOT - End of Treatment
Nov 15, 2008 06:14PM in the Hepatitis Social Community
From how you describe it I'd say that the same thing happened to me. I was a trouper all through tx, no AD's, but after getting a shock breakthrough and sudden termination of tx I felt bad for a long time. For the 1st 3 months I chalked it up to the meds still being in my system. After that I got very worried about my health because I still felt depressed,...
Does Liver heal after being undected.
Nov 15, 2008 05:43PM in the Hepatitis C Community
Here's a study with some info oon the subject, dointime "Long-term HCV Eradication Sustained virological response (SVR), or undetectable HCV viral load 24 weeks after completion of treatment, is widely considered a “cure” for chronic hepatitis C. As reported in the September 2008 Gastroenterology, S. Maylin and colleagues performed long-term follo...
Depression/Anxiety after treatment
Nov 11, 2008 05:22PM in the Hepatitis C Community
If you didn't feel like this before tx then you are probably not doomed to depression for life, if that is what you are asking. I failed tx too and it took me over a year before I could shake off the bad feelings of dread, anxiety and sadness. I think I had a kind of post traumatic stress thing from the trauma of the treatment and discovering that the viru...
Viral mutation data/telepravir
Nov 10, 2008 05:33PM in the Hepatitis C Community
Vertex has been quite open about resistance to telaprevir and viral mutation. Here's a study they published.: dointime Evaluation of Viral Variants During a Phase 2 Study (PROVE2) of Telaprevir with Peginterferon alfa-2A and Ribavirin in Treatment-naïve HCV Genotype 1-Infected Patients J. Pawlotsky5; T. Kieffer1; Y. Zhou1; E. Zhang1; M. Marcial1; ...
Polymerase inhibitor R7128
Nov 08, 2008 06:26PM in the Hepatitis C Community
Hey Dragon, so you did get the drug! All the reports about it are really good. I am hoping I have the time to wait for it to be approved. Thanks for posting, dointime