Hi. So sorry to hear about your setback with the 'dragaon'.
Yes, in case you have not yet heard, there is new tx in the form of a third drug added to the interferon and riba. It increases the success rate significantly ( doubled) for first time tx to about 78-80%. It also has a great success rate ( don't know the % off the top of my head) for relapsers. The FDA just approved both of these new drugs in May of this year. They are called teleprevir (Incivek) and boceprevir ( Victrelis).
Talk to your doctor. Things are looking up in the hep C world.
I will be starting tx very soon and glad I waited. I contracted in 1978 and dx in 1996.
Thank God, I have been symptom free all this time and feeling good, however, my biopsy showed several years ago that there is something going on in there, albeit mild.
Good luck!
Yes simple bloodwork http://www.ccjm.org/content/77/8/519.short I did both and they came out the same>I would never ever do a biopsy again