DING DONG..... MY DRAGONS DEAD / Open Post

[Indiana]

Thats right gang, I got my 1 yr post tx PCR results back.......
SVR BABY!! GAME OVER...........I WIN!!
For those who don't remember my stats....Type 1b....850,000 V/L...probably had Hcv for 30 years....No symptoms before starting....just an overwhelming desire to kick some Dragon BUTT!
I did 50 weeks of Peg?Intron combo.
I have posted my reasons for doing tx before. Tx was tough on me but not as bad as some. I consider myself to have been about middle of the road on the sides that came with my tx.
I have NO lasting bad side effects from my tx.
So now we are at the end of my story. I will not test again....at least not for at least 5 years....if then. It has been a LONG road to get to this end point....but HERE I AM! Happy, healthy, excited,and looking towards the future with a renewed optomism that I did not think was possible. I have NO regrets as I look back over it all. I view the whole thing as a positive experience that has helped me in many more ways than just killing the virus. It has changed the way I look at things and shown me how to take the positive things from ANY experience while discounting the negatives. I started tx and have NEVER looked back. I was determined. I believe my positive outlook had a lot to do with my success at this. I studied and learned about Hcv and tx and that took the fear away. I asked a lot of questions here and everywhere. GIPA helped me with my outlook in many areas of concern for me. She is an Angel.
I want to thank ALL of you for EVERYTHING.
I gotta go tip me some cows now!!
Want to be free??  FOLLOW Meeeeeee!!!!!

[raheem]

Great news, I'm happy for you (and us!)

[Fubarcat]

I'm not familiar with you as I'm new to this site, but I felt such a sense of happiness when I read your latest post.  So happy for you!!!  Go get 'em - MOOOOOOOO!

[Martee]

When I signed on today I was hoping to see some good news, and I sure did.
Congratulations and AMEN !!!!!!!!!!!  :)

[simpleman]

Congratulations. Thanks for blazing the trail and keeping me on the straight and narrow. Next November I'll come up when when my 1 year says DEAD, And we"ll tip a bunch of cows. I'm so happy for you.

[Dirac]

That is the best news ever!! Congratulations!!!

[britgirl]

Well, Mikesimon said it all really, just how I feel about what a strength you've been to people on this board. I always felt close to you somehow; I liked your sense of humour and your positive outlook, and I agree with you that those things are important to get through treatment unscathed. I liked the fact that, unlike most Americans, you were doing it all without the help of antidepressants and sleep aids and whatever else the medicine men try to get you to take. I liked the way you spoke of your wife, as a friend, your best friend, who nevertheless kept out of your way for the duration (wise woman). Do you know that when BethUK and I met up in a London pub we happened to talk about YOU, and agreed that you sounded a really cool guy who we could imagine having a laugh with?! So, SVR, it's a nice feeling isn't it? I have also decided that I won't get tested again. Enough is enough! The only thing I never agreed with you about was this dragon thing. I never felt that hostile to my Hep. I had acquired it at a very crazy period of my life and from a very crazy person, but it had somehow become part of me, and I was even worried that losing it would change me somehow. So I don't only feel that I've learned something from the experience of getting rid of it, but from the experience of having got it in the first place. I regret nothing.....and I have a suspicion that neither do you! All the best, Jeff