geneotype 1a 1b

[barbiewhite]

I have just started hep C treatment for the 3 time I have geneotype 1a 1b I herd these 2 are the most resistant to treatment, Is this true. Has anyone here tried coliadal silver, Im curious about that stuff. Is there a certain diet i should follow will on treatment. The doctor say I have to do this treatment for 1 year the longest I made it was 10 months a and it nearly killed me

[susan400]

Hi (NYGirl).....,   Barbiewhite, I - like NYGirl, was 1A/1B.   I still haven't cleared the virus, but I have lost the 1B geno and I now have the 1A left   I have treated 10 times.   I was never offered the 72 weeks as the requirement for me to do 72 wks was that I had to have cleared the virus and since I never cleared, they wouldn't allow me to extend.  Had I cleared on my last treatment (like by week 12) - then, the plan had been to have me extend to 72 wks.  But, since since my viral load bumped back up in the 1st month, I was taken off treatment at week 5.   I have had the bridging fibrosis for the past 7 yrs, or otherwise, I wouldn't bother trying to retreat, but since I do have significant damage, I have to keep trying.

Susan400

[nygirl7]

PS treatment is difficult but you must manage to do the entire course - at this point I believe that you would be looking at extending to 72 weeks like I had to in order to beat it because certainly you can see that not even making it the entire way does not work

There are side effects but many of them are managed by using certain medications to combat them. It never makes treatment fun but it does make it tolerable.  Plenty of us in here have suffered through the entire course who would not have been ablel to with out the assistance of the rescue meds.

Perhaps you need a more experienced current and uptodate with the latest info doctor in order to succeed?

[nygirl7]

I had geno1a and geno1b and have been SVR for almost two years.

Why not try and enter into one of the trials instead of wasting your money on something that could never cure you? You know the only cure consists of interferon and ribavirin and perhaps if you added one of the newer drugs on trial in with it you would make it.

The CS isn't going to do anything to help you except drain your wallet - not the virus.

[Xenigma]

Some who have a dual genotype clear both and others for whatever reason seem to clear the 1b and are left with the 1a.  (From what I've read here over the years)

Others will come by and give you more info.
Good luck!

[fretboard]

Welcome,
If the link is zapped, just go to utube and enter the dangers of colloidal silver.  Yes 1a and 1b together may be a problematic.  I'll let others chime in on that as I haven't tx'ed yet.  Good Luck  

A case of argyria after colloidal silver ingestion.

Chang AL, Khosravi V, Egbert B.
Department of Dermatology, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, CA 94305, USA. ***@****
BACKGROUND: Argyria is often considered an entity of the past, one which has largely disappeared with the cessation of silver usage in oral medications. However, with the practice of colloidal silver ingestion in current "alternative health" treatments, argyria should be considered in the differential diagnosis of blue-gray hyperpigmentation. METHODS: A single case report with clinicopathological correlation. RESULTS: Histological examination of skin biopsy specimen, which showed perieccrine brown-black granules, verified that colloidal silver rather than a prescribed medication was the source of the patient's dyspigmentation.
PMID: 17177941 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]


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