Phase II PI drug trial - comments?

[Trish77]

This is the drug trial I'm being screened for currently.  I will find out in two weeks.  If I get in, things will move VERY fast as last date for first dose is March 3rd and likely will be before that.  

I've seen others comment on how their own drug trials demanded some level of secrecy on the part of the participants so I asked about that .. and there are no demands of me in that regard.  

I'd be interested in any comments - positive, negative, "are ya nuts?" variety....doesn't matter.  Don't hold back now.  :)

http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00517439?term=hepatitis+toronto&rank=42

Thanks.

Trish

[foofighter]

Trial nurse and PA called me about this a couple of weeks ago, as they were very excited about great results they were seeing. I didn't take notes during the conversation so I don't have exactly what they said (the time frame) but I know they were jazzed about the drop in VL in a short time. Did you learn that your response is unblinded?

In another thread dointime had pointed out what I had posted wasn't so great, so I probably didn't get it right. I would hope it was sincere excitement and that they were not just trying to recruit me. Aquila has pointed out in a couple of threads that this trial has cut the Peg in half on some of the arms, which concerned me a bit.

I am holding out for the Phase 3 of Vertex, even though my PA mentioned there may be a Peg reduction in that trial as well. Don't know if that is true, but hopefully we will find out soon.

Ya never know...I may be sorry to have passed on trying to get into this trial. Anyway good luck on your path to SVR!