Did anyone on this web site that is relapsed, do so after clearing at 12 weeks post treatment?

[mar148]

I was wondering if any of the people who were undetected at 12 weeks post treatment relapsed between 12 and 24 weeks.  There are a number of us in the waiting game and I was wondering what the experience was for anyone here?  Who did achieve SVR after being clear at 12 weeks post?

I go next week (8/26) for my 24 week lab work.  I seem to be in the same boat as a number of others right now.

[GoofyDad]

You said (emphasis mine)
Personally, the *one* I used at six months post

Just one? Jimbo, you're either slippin' or lyin'. Are you sure you didn't have a few done at different labs in different cities? C'mon now - fess up....

:) Be well.

[mar148]

It appears that you are addressing your results while you are still on treatment?  My question related to 12 week results after treatment is over.  Good luck with the remainder of you tests.  mary Ellen

[Effiedanna]

At 12 weeks i was undetected i am stage 0-2 ,geno 1a then at my 16 week labs showed a 23,500 VL to say the least i was devastated. I am having my 20 week labs done next week and hope that my VL is gone again. I know that its rare for this to happen but it happens and it *****. Its hard  when u celebrate at 12 weeks and cry at 16 weeks. Good luck and i will pray for u please pray for me. I take 180mcg of pegaus 1x a week injected and 1200 mg of Riba daily. Effie

[Facta_non_verba]

Age 52, male, 185 pound at start but now 167, geno 1, high initial VL, log2 drop at week 12 but not UND until week 20 or so, Pegasys and 1600mg/day ribavirin.

Here are my thoughts on the issue: I've got 16 more weeks out of 72, and when I'm done I'll get my EOT labs and see everyone in 6 months. I like my doctor and the NP who looks after me, but I am so looking forward to getting all this **** out of my system and getting my life back. Whether I'm still UND 2, 4 or 12 weeks after EOT will have no effect on me since I'm not going right back on treatment anyway. I plan on getting my labs drawn 24 weeks after EOT and celebrating if I'm SVR or working through my options if I have relapsed.

I'm counting on "ignorance is bliss."

Jeff
Facta non Verba

[JennyPenny]

My friend treated wih Dr. Ray Chung at Mass General. She had her viral load done at 10 weeks due to some travel plans she made and did not want to cancel. She was undetected at 10 weeks, 24 weeks and EOT (48 weeks the first time and 72 weeks the second time. I don't know when her next text was done but I do know that she was detected at 24 weeks. She has bridging fibrosis (Stage 3?).

[pKinCA]

Hi!

Looks like they did 3 VLs:  End of treatment, 12 and 24 weeks...

"All patients who were HCV RNA undetected (<29 IU/mL) at the end of treatment with viral counts done at follow-up week 12 and 24 were included."

I thought the same thing as you:  "false positive" on the one person who went from positive to SVR.  That's why if I ever had a positive, I would re-do the test in a heartbeat!!!

100% of patients without cirrhosis (91% of patients with cirrhosis) who had UND 12-week VL reached SVR.   I'd be in Vegas casino all day and all night if it had those kinds of odds!!!  :-)

pK