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Offline new_life

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undetected and cured
« on: April 20, 2016, 05:17:18 pm »
diagnosed with hep C late spring 2015
count: 6.9 million
stage: F3
started 90 days Harvoni treatment: at the end of September 2015
finished tretment: at the end of December 2015
after 30 days on Harvoni:  virus undetected
after 90 days on Harvoni:  virus undetected
90 days post Harvoni treatment: virus undetected
and that means:  CURED

I did not experienced any side effects - trully.  Judging by the liver fibrosis stage, I must have had the virus in my system for a long time.  Do not know how I got it - most likely during a surgery I've had in the late 70's.

I am infinitely grateful for this miraculous medicine and wish that it works just as well for you as it did for me.  Blessings and wishes for full recovery to everyone ...

Offline Philadelphia

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Re: undetected and cured
« Reply #1 on: April 20, 2016, 06:51:19 pm »
Congratulations. That's fantastic news!
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 FutureThinker

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Re: undetected and cured
« Reply #2 on: April 20, 2016, 08:12:25 pm »
Looks like you've exited the Harvoni Train -- congrats!!  I am hoping to exit it w/ SVR success, too, this year.  All the best to you, FT
Treatment naive
Likely contracted mid-70s
Diagnosed 1a, 2011
F1-2
Harvoni X 12 weeks, completed 5/17/16
Pre-treatment: VL 3 mil, AST 64, ALT 84
4 week labs: VL 30, AST 21, ALT 14
8 week labs: VL UD!!!, AST 22, ALT 16
12 week labs: VL UD, AST 23, ALT 14
2 wk EOT: VL UD
12 wk EOT: VL UD, AST 22, ALT 13 =  SVR 12! Yay! 
Last hep appointment: VL UD, AST 19, ALT 12 = SVR 39! I AM DONE!

Offline new_life

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Re: undetected and cured
« Reply #3 on: April 21, 2016, 08:43:16 pm »
Thank you Philadelphia … it's nice to know that you are also finally hep C free!!! Wishing you a good health and best of everything ...

Offline new_life

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Re: undetected and cured
« Reply #4 on: April 21, 2016, 08:47:23 pm »
Thank you Future Thinker … wishing you success with your Harvoni treatment!!! All my best wishes … newLife

Offline FutureThinker

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Re: undetected and cured
« Reply #5 on: April 23, 2016, 11:41:46 am »
Hi, just thought I'd share that I tested UD on my 8 wk labs, so I am on my way! FT
Treatment naive
Likely contracted mid-70s
Diagnosed 1a, 2011
F1-2
Harvoni X 12 weeks, completed 5/17/16
Pre-treatment: VL 3 mil, AST 64, ALT 84
4 week labs: VL 30, AST 21, ALT 14
8 week labs: VL UD!!!, AST 22, ALT 16
12 week labs: VL UD, AST 23, ALT 14
2 wk EOT: VL UD
12 wk EOT: VL UD, AST 22, ALT 13 =  SVR 12! Yay! 
Last hep appointment: VL UD, AST 19, ALT 12 = SVR 39! I AM DONE!

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Re: undetected and cured
« Reply #6 on: April 23, 2016, 12:05:36 pm »
Congratulations New Life! Perhaps you will consider spreading some hope by sharing your HEP Story https://www.hepmag.com/category/hep-stories It's a wonderful way to celebrate.
Lucinda Porter, RN
1988 Contracted HCV
1997 Interferon nonresponder
2003 PEG + ribavirin responder-relapser
2013 Cured (Harvoni + ribavirin clinical trial)
https://www.hepmag.com/blogger/lucindakporter

Offline new_life

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Re: undetected and cured
« Reply #7 on: May 09, 2016, 03:34:19 pm »
Fantastic news, Future Thinker!!!  Looks like you are on your way to full recovery ...  blessings,
New_Life   

Offline new_life

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Re: undetected and cured
« Reply #8 on: May 09, 2016, 03:48:47 pm »
Thank you, Lucinda ... yes, I will share my story ...

this forum provided me with hope, encouragement and all I needed to know when
I was newly diagnosed and I am very thankful to everyone here ...

so, I hope I can do the same for others ...

you are so right, what a great way to celebrate!!!

Offline brie41

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Re: undetected and cured
« Reply #9 on: May 09, 2016, 08:07:25 pm »
Hi,

  That is wonderful!!  Congrats to you!!!  Brie
Diagnosed  HCV, 1A 2006
Viral load 6 million
Ast/Alt always in the 20's
F0-F1, never changed
Treatment naive, started 8 week Harvoni 3/15/16
4 and 8 week labs undetected
6 week eot labs undetected
13 week eot UNDETECTED!

Offline KimInTheForest

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Re: undetected and cured
« Reply #10 on: May 10, 2016, 02:09:56 am »
That's great new_life! I hope you go enjoy it (your new life, that is). :)

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 Pablo

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Re: undetected and cured
« Reply #11 on: May 10, 2016, 03:10:34 am »
Congratulations,

Offline jakas

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Re: undetected and cured
« Reply #12 on: May 10, 2016, 08:00:45 am »
Congrats always a pleasure to hear UND CURED !
M/57 yrs.
Contracted (Unknown) 10-20-30 yrs back ??
Treatment Naive
Geno 1a&1b
VL  17+ million
ALT 200+, AST 170+
Fibroscan F4 ( 26+ kpa ) on 8th Dec. 2105
Started Tx 11th Dec.2015 ( 12 wks. Gilead Harvoni)
7/1/2016 :Viral Load|<25 UND.
23/1/2016: ALT 34 , AST 35, ALP 143
8 week NO labs done
EOT:03.03.2016 ( 84 pills eaten )
ALT 26, ALP 124, BIL .54
V/L <25 UND E.O.T.
4 weeks E.O.T. V/L UND::: SVR 4
SVR 12 and  SVR 24 on 16/8/16
Fibro 24.5kpa 23/05/16
SVR 63 05/17
Fibro 17.03.2020 kpa 6.3

Offline Allen Cunningham

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Re: undetected and cured
« Reply #13 on: May 13, 2016, 03:52:44 pm »
Diagnosed 8/97 with HepC
Liver Transplant 7/2004
Genotype 1b, Biopsy:12/2015: TX Naive, Fibrosis Level 1
ALT: 26, AST: 26
Started 12 wks Harvoni on 1/19/16
Week 5 - undetectible!

new_life - Wonderful news, I'm right behind you and going for SVR in two months! Same as you, absolutely no side effects and I didn't have to pay a dime for Harvoni!

Enjoy your New Life!

Offline MaryC

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Re: undetected and cured
« Reply #14 on: May 18, 2016, 06:54:59 pm »
Great news new_life!  I wish you the best in your HCV-free 'new life'!
Mary
GT 3a
Dx'd 4/15 not known when contracted
Labs 7/15:
-VL 537,000
-AST 32
-ALT 41
-Fibrosis score 0.46 (F1-F2)
Started tx 9/17/2015 with Daklinza + Sovaldi
6/6/16: 24 week EOT SVR!  Cured!

Offline beflat10r

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Re: undetected and cured
« Reply #15 on: May 24, 2016, 01:09:13 am »
Hello Philadelphia- from Philadelphia..
 Great news isn't it?
I just today was told by my liver doc that I am "cured".
I am 1 year post treatment.
12 weeks of treatment with no side effects.
Amazing eh?
Clean and sober 6/19/89
dx gt 1a 5/2000 bummer!
No treatment
Monitored via ultrasounds and bloodwork and great liver doc for last 15yrs
Totally covered for Harvoni
Started Harvoni 2/27/15
Viral load 1,476,109
Feel like I hit the lottery!

Offline MsBrat58

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Re: undetected and cured
« Reply #16 on: June 02, 2016, 02:39:33 am »
After 33 years of living with hepc, as of today i am svr12. I am cured!!! Couldn't be happier. Still surreal. I was on avbbie vakira pac. Still have side effects but i am cured!! Prayers for those getting ready to start tx or just finishing.
Do not give up. Fight, fight, fight. I love this forum.

Offline KimInTheForest

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Re: undetected and cured
« Reply #17 on: June 02, 2016, 12:12:04 pm »
Congrats MsBrat!!!

That's great news :)

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 FutureThinker

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Re: undetected and cured
« Reply #18 on: June 02, 2016, 12:56:35 pm »
MsBrat, SO HAPPY FOR YOU!!!!!!!!!!! My "big" test is in August, so I hope to be posting good news like yours in the near future! FT
Treatment naive
Likely contracted mid-70s
Diagnosed 1a, 2011
F1-2
Harvoni X 12 weeks, completed 5/17/16
Pre-treatment: VL 3 mil, AST 64, ALT 84
4 week labs: VL 30, AST 21, ALT 14
8 week labs: VL UD!!!, AST 22, ALT 16
12 week labs: VL UD, AST 23, ALT 14
2 wk EOT: VL UD
12 wk EOT: VL UD, AST 22, ALT 13 =  SVR 12! Yay! 
Last hep appointment: VL UD, AST 19, ALT 12 = SVR 39! I AM DONE!

Offline MsBrat58

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Re: undetected and cured
« Reply #19 on: June 02, 2016, 01:00:05 pm »
Thanks Kim and forest :) good luck !!!

Offline hopefulhelena

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Re: undetected and cured
« Reply #20 on: June 08, 2016, 05:37:27 am »
Congratulations new life, that's great news. I too just got the 12 weeks post treatment UND-cured, and know how it feels.
Hoping for many many more of these posts!

Offline MsBrat58

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Re: undetected and cured
« Reply #21 on: June 08, 2016, 12:28:21 pm »
Thank you! Your turns will come.  8)

Offline AussieRosa

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Re: undetected and cured
« Reply #22 on: June 08, 2016, 08:22:03 pm »
Congratulations, New_Life and MsBrat! It's always heartening to hear people reach SVR and able to use that wonderful word: cured!
Gt 1a
contracted 1983
Fibroscan 6.1
Treatment naive
VL 2.97M
ALT 38
AST 47
Started Viekira Pak + Ribavirin Tues 19th Jan 2016
Week 4: VL Undetected!
March 5th Ribavirin dose reduction to 800mg from 1000mg
EOT April 11th 2016. VL Not Detected
12 Weeks post EOT: SVR12. Cured with a capital C!!
6 months post EOT: Undetected :-)

Offline MsBrat58

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Re: undetected and cured
« Reply #23 on: June 08, 2016, 08:55:48 pm »
Thank you. It is good to say. Still a little surreal but i am happy. I pray for the undiagnosed, people fighting to get on treatment, those that are on treatment and some who need treatment again. If you are confused about treatment because you are shellshocked with your new diagnosis, run to treatment. Being cured is amazing!

 


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