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Author Topic: Started Harvoni  (Read 7120 times)

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Offline kingharry

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Started Harvoni
« on: May 24, 2015, 12:46:52 pm »
Day 4 of 12 week regimen. No side effects, yet.

Genotype 1, infected in 1983. No previous treatments. No liver biopsies as I am a hemophiliac. Liver at stage 1 (as shown on ultrasound).
It is not enough I should win. Others should lose.

Offline KimInTheForest

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Re: Started Harvoni
« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2015, 01:50:00 pm »
Welcome to the journey kingharry! Good luck on treatment. You will, in all likelihood be cured by the end of it. Keep us posted. I am on Day 20 of 12 weeks of Harvoni+Ribavirin, and no significant side effects - unless feeling better can be counted as a side effect. ;)

kim
Kim Goldberg (Nanaimo, BC)
1970s: Contracted HCV (genotype 3a)
2015: Cured with Harvoni + ribavirin (12 weeks)
MY STORY: https://pigsquash.wordpress.com/2016/01/28/undetectable-my-hep-c-story/

Offline kingharry

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Re: Started Harvoni
« Reply #2 on: May 24, 2015, 08:40:39 pm »
Thanks for the welcome, Kim. ;)
It is not enough I should win. Others should lose.

Offline MEG

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Re: Started Harvoni
« Reply #3 on: May 26, 2015, 12:30:10 am »
Welcome King....ya, it's quite the journey. If you've read the various threads here you'll see that the experience of Harvoni is almost as varied as each one of us...I hope you have a smooth course.....I finished a 12 regimen 5 weeks ago and my 4 week post EOT is Undetectable.............I was quite sick during treatment but it's all so worth it...

@Kim  I'm so happy for you that your doing well on the H/Riba...you got this!

Meg.
Geno 1a. IL28B+ with TT polymorphism.
Diagnosed 1993.
Liver Biopsy 1993 --inflammation.
Fibroscan 2014---no fibrosis.
ALT range---60s
AST range---80s.
Platelets: 200K range.
Viral load--2 million range.

Began Harvoni on January 23.
Finished 12 week course on April 19.

May 18---4 week EOT labs:
VL: UNDETECTED.
AST: 23
ALT: 22...........These have not been this low throughout treatment and since my 20s.

12 weeks EOT on July 15---Undetected.

Offline KimInTheForest

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Re: Started Harvoni
« Reply #4 on: May 26, 2015, 02:22:47 am »

@Kim  I'm so happy for you that your doing well on the H/Riba...you got this!

Meg.

Thanks Meg! I realize I may have some fatigue & tiredness ahead of me because of the anemia with ribavirin. But I am feeling very thankful that the other Harvoni/Riba sides that seem to be affecting some people so severely have not presented themselves in my first 3 weeks. Just 9 more weeks to go! Quite the journey and really nice to be on it with a community of people who understand how much it means. :)

kim
Kim Goldberg (Nanaimo, BC)
1970s: Contracted HCV (genotype 3a)
2015: Cured with Harvoni + ribavirin (12 weeks)
MY STORY: https://pigsquash.wordpress.com/2016/01/28/undetectable-my-hep-c-story/

 


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