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Prove 3 week 20
This was a minor visit, but things really heat up over the next few weeks: I will find out if I stop at 24 weeks or continue another 24. At week 26 I will get the PCR results back to day one and that is the most important thing to me and I am sure to you all.
I have a fair number of characteristics that make me difficult to treat: I failed 7 other treatments; I am 67; I am stage 3 and my initial viral load was >8 million units per ml. With all this, I am still optimistic and look forward to the results.
I have a fair number of characteristics that make me difficult to treat: I failed 7 other treatments; I am 67; I am stage 3 and my initial viral load was >8 million units per ml. With all this, I am still optimistic and look forward to the results.
I am genotype 1A. I am uncertain about what to do as far as 48 weeks. I am hoping the test results will produce something definitive. the final decision will depend on how sane I am at the time - LOL. The tx is certainly making me crazy!
I am very interested in your results too. Prove3 are the first people to let us know how much hope there is for nonresponders and relapsers from the triple therapy.
By the way, I am sure you said previously but I forgot, how did you fail your last tx's? Was it relapse each time?
Keeping my fingers crossed for you (and all of us failed tx'ers)
dointime.
By the way, I am sure you said previously but I forgot, how did you fail your last tx's? Was it relapse each time?
Keeping my fingers crossed for you (and all of us failed tx'ers)
dointime.
I was a slow responder, but became und at 24 weeks and I relapsed after 48 weeks. I relapsed within a week of stopping. This was the last time I treated. Before that, I never responded; this was before PCR tests were available.
The excitement is building as we get closer to that 26 week mark, isn't it?!?!?
The first time I treated my starting VL was 1,230,000. This time it was 12, 500,000!! So, since I am under the old criteria there is a possibility that at 12 weeks my VL could still have been higher than it was the first time I started treatment. For 6 weeks of this treatment my Riba has either been lowered or discontinued so I'm especially nervous.
How have you been feeling since week 12?
Best of luck to you as we reach this important milestone in our treatment!
The first time I treated my starting VL was 1,230,000. This time it was 12, 500,000!! So, since I am under the old criteria there is a possibility that at 12 weeks my VL could still have been higher than it was the first time I started treatment. For 6 weeks of this treatment my Riba has either been lowered or discontinued so I'm especially nervous.
How have you been feeling since week 12?
Best of luck to you as we reach this important milestone in our treatment!
Yes - the tension is really building and I am very nervous.
I feel the same after week 12 (awful), so I am probably in he 48 week arm. So far, my Riba has not been lowered; my Hgb has been 10.3 at every blood test. I should add that when I stopped taking effexor, my nausea subsided.
Best of luck to you as well.
I feel the same after week 12 (awful), so I am probably in he 48 week arm. So far, my Riba has not been lowered; my Hgb has been 10.3 at every blood test. I should add that when I stopped taking effexor, my nausea subsided.
Best of luck to you as well.
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