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Who are relapsers who are considering tx. agian

Hello Team
   Noticed a post where the people treating for 72 weeks were keeping track of there tx.progress. I thought it might be interesting to do the same with people who have responded but relapesed. I relapsed at 3 months post tx. about a year ago and I am thinking of Tx. agian possibly in a study that will add a protease inhibiter to the standard cocktail. If people who are similar to me would like to give there info I will try to manage it. My best to all
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forgot to mention....24 weeks tx
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Geno 2b, weight based Riba/Pegasys, RVR

4weeks post UND

8 weeks post relapsed.

will be txing again.
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I did the treatment in 2004, 6months, geno 3, relapsed.  Was fibrosis 3 before treatment, now stage 2 and confirmed absolutely by 2 biopsies. (I thought that if they took a biopsy from one part of the liver it would be different from another part of the liver).
Im going to do the tx again, but I am waiting for a more friendlier one to come around, hopefully by the end of 2009, if not, then I will do the same one again on a higher dose for a longer time.
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thanks for the input. I am going to start thinking of compiling a list. Talk soon
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Yes I was on peg and ribo,   I had und week 12, during text, and stayed that way.
I was on 48 weeks,  Still UND at end.  Did my 6 month after tx.  Still SVR/UND.

At 9 months went in  PCR quantative and qualitive  was back.

Now I am on 9 infergen daily, 1000 ribo.    This is my third time txing.  

also it should be noted, that when I started the peg, I had just survived  a head on collision, and had to ween my self from steroids while on tx, I do think it had something to do with it,
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Yea that make sense you could have relapsed much sooner then.
My hepdoc said that more then 90% of them that relaps, do it within 8days post tx.
I´m gonna get my PCR done 3 m post tx so I don´t wanna hear about a lot of late relapsers. ty for answer, take care
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