Genotype 1B

[BronxRican007]

Fellow Warriors,

Today I finally found that I'm genotype 1B but I'm still waiting on viral load test to come back and biopsy to be done. My Question: Is anyone here a genotype 1b and have you acheived SVR? My understanding is that 1b is the hardest to treat.

Thanks
BronxRican007

[ca-girl]

Sounds like you're telling my story.  I hated the trials, but that was the only thing being offered at the time.  They have really improved on the treatments.  I have some liver damage, but don't know the numbers.  How is your treatment going?  I feel like I have the flu all the time.  Not much different than without the treatments.  

ca-girl

[wyntre9]

How come there's a repost of a two-year-old thread here?

wyntre

[alagirl]

That seems like a low viral load to me?  What makes you think you've had it for ten years?  It would seem like a low viral load that you might be able to kick out with treatment, but then, I don't know that much about it yet.

And yeah, sorry all, didn't realize I was responding to a thread that so old! ugh!

[alagirl]

Bronx, it is frequently recommended that people with either of the 1 genotypes (a or b) treat for 48 weeks instead of 24, but it is entirely up to you and your doctor.  I am going to push for 48 myself.

Anyway, I too am a Genotype 1b.  I am stll in the acute phase, viral load 188,000 and I start therapy this next week.  I am going to press for 48 wks of tx because I want to be on the safe side.

On Genotype 1, especially if you get it in the acute phase, you still do have a good chance at clearing it - of at least, that's what they tell me ;)

[ladywhy]

you sound a bit like me. Were you in clinical trials years ago? I was...and then ran away from all dr's for years. I am on my 27th wk of tx. Wishing you the very best and SVR to boot.
Y

[ca-girl]

i have hep c genotype 1b.  my viral load is a little over 3.5 million.  i've had 2 biopsies so far over 10 years, give or take.  i started treatments yesterday.  they tell me i'm in stage 2.  is that bad?  what is stage 3 like?  how many stages are there?  i guess i haven't been paying much attention to the disease until now.  it's starting to be noticable.  it gets in the way a little bit.  not too bad though.

when i started down this road, things were different.  they overdosed you on interferon in hopes of not killing you, but killing the hep c.  it was not a pretty picture.  i stayed away from the doctors for a long time (years).  i guess partly because i thought that if i could continue to work and participate in life, i couldn't be too sick.  now i realize that's just denial.

i have had my first shot of peg/interferon and ribovirin.  i have hope.

god bless,
cagirl