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Hepatitis C Main Forums => On Hepatitis C Treatment => Topic started by: DesertGuy on August 06, 2014, 02:41:25 pm
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Just had to go pick my results up from my local hosp--blood taken last Thursday--4 weeks--for some reason they would not post these online with my others --DUH?--so I don't see my Doc until next month---as I read them I still show detectable--not sure
HCV log10 1.301 log10 IU/ml
what does this mean??
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Hi Deseryguy,
It looks like you have had a dramatic drop in your overall VL to less then 25 per IU/ml. This is great news!
"What's in a log?
Viral load can be expressed as a NUMBER or a LOG VALUE. A log is the number of times ten must be multiplied with itself to equal a certain number. For example, log 2 = 100 (10 x 10), log 5 is 100,000 (10 x 10 x 10 x 10 x 10).
Dividing a number by 10 is the same as a 1 log drop.
When comparing big numbers, it's sometimes easier to use logs because what looks like a massive change is in fact relatively small. For example: A viral load of 800,000 is log 5.9, 80,000 is log 4.9. So you's thinking "Wow! a massive drop in virus!" But in log terms it's the same as a drop from 500 (log 2.7) to 50 (log 1.7), which in number terms don't seems as grand as losing 720,000 of the little buggers does it...
A change in viral load of 0.5 log is significant.
You can convert a number into a log value by entering "log(THE NUMBER)" into the Google search box, for example enter "log(50)" and press RETURN and you will give you the result "log(50) = 1.69897".
HANDY LOG TABLE
Viral load is... Log value...
50 1.7
100 2
330 2.5
500 2.7
800 2.9
1,000 3
3,300 3.5
5,000 3.7
8,000 3.9
33,000 4.5
50,000 4.7
80,000 4.9
500,000 5.7
800,000 5.9
1 million 6 "
Best wishes, Mike
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Okay---big drop---but still detectable correct?
I know I was nine million something
so is this good---or great news????
I'm in for a 24 week dose
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forgot--also says
HCV RNA detected, less than 15 IU/ml
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Hi Deseryguy,
It's great news. It means you went from 9,000,000 per UL/ml to less then 25 per UL/ml! That means 8,999,975 of virus have been eliminated at the time the blood was drawn
I would imagine your undetectable at this time!
Best wishes, Mike
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So--if all goes to plan---when my blood is drawn in 3 more weeks--and then I see the doc a few days later
I should be undetectable----CORRECT ???????????
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Yes. I would bet money on it!
Also, since it takes about a week to get the VL test back, I would bet money that you're undetectable now. You went from 9 million to less then 25 in 3-4 weeks. That means the Sovaldi has 20 weeks left to beat the crap out the handful that are left!
That's why this is such great news!
Best wishes, Mike
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Hey man thanks---I don't see the doc until next month, and he doesn't say much
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