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Author Topic: viekira pak 12 wks w/o ribavirin  (Read 4978 times)

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Offline edman300

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viekira pak 12 wks w/o ribavirin
« on: August 18, 2015, 04:04:57 pm »
just started treatment today. does anybody have any advice on what I can expect?
thank you
DIAGNOSED IN LATE 80'S
INTERFERON/RIBA-1997-NON RESPONDER
PEGASYS INTERFERON/RIBA-2003-NON RESPONDER
HCV RNA >4,000,000
ALT 33
GGT 25
GENOTYPE-1B/F2
STARTED VIEKIRA PAK W/O RIBA- 8-18-2015 FOR 12 WKS
6wk vl =undetected
alt=12
10 wk vl= undetected

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Re: viekira pak 12 wks w/o ribavirin
« Reply #1 on: August 18, 2015, 06:42:58 pm »
Side effects have been different for everyone with ribavirin seeming to cause the most problems. Some people sail through, some slog. I'm three weeks off finishing a 24 week treatment and found it a little tough at first but pretty easy after the first month. I've blogged the entire treatment (link below) and also have a thread running in this forum.

Good luck! It'll all be worth it.
CURED SVR24  Class of 2015
Wk 12 post EOT 30.11.15: ALT 14 AST 22 GGT 22 VL UND
Week 19 07.08.15: ALT 17 AST 23 GGT 25
Week 12 18.06.15: ALT 21 AST 23 GGT 28
Week 8 25.05.15: ALT 23 AST 27 GGT 30 VL UND
Week 4 20.04.14: ALT 30 AST 36 VL 40
Treatment start 23.03.15: ALT 137 AST 185 VL 342,600
Cirrhosis Child-Pugh A, Genotype 1a - Viekira Pak + riba 24 weeks
Total failure interferon/ribavirin/boceprovir Mar 2013
https://www.hepmag.com/blogger/grace-campbell

Offline edman300

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Re: viekira pak 12 wks w/o ribavirin
« Reply #2 on: August 18, 2015, 08:34:51 pm »
thank you. I also failed 2 different regimines of interferon. my vl is >4,000,000
if I could get thru the interferon im pretty sure this will be abcakewalk. I just haven't heard much about viekira
DIAGNOSED IN LATE 80'S
INTERFERON/RIBA-1997-NON RESPONDER
PEGASYS INTERFERON/RIBA-2003-NON RESPONDER
HCV RNA >4,000,000
ALT 33
GGT 25
GENOTYPE-1B/F2
STARTED VIEKIRA PAK W/O RIBA- 8-18-2015 FOR 12 WKS
6wk vl =undetected
alt=12
10 wk vl= undetected

 


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