12 week labs. I was so excited to get the results a couple days earlier than I expected. Imagine how I felt when I discovered the virus is back, viral load 1.5 million. I kept thinking I wanted 24 weeks, with my liver damage. I think viruses were caught behind scar tissue and as my liver got better, they got out and got back to their vicious cycle.
Honestly, I feel better mentally and emotionally now than I have in a long time. The stress of waiting for my 12 week lab is gone, and I am truly happy right now.
I know the drugs work! I was undie @ 12 weeks, but not at 4 weeks. I really wanted to do 24 weeks of Harvoni, with the advance bridging fibrosis F-4 I was told I had from a biopsy in Feb 2011, 4 years before I started treatment.
It made sense to me, that with liver damage, there might be some viruses trapped behind or inside fibrosis. The only way they and the drug travels is in the blood flow. And I remember hearing 8 or so years ago that the virus can "land" anywhere in the body and take a vacation, then get swept back along by the blood into the liver and get back to business.
So as my liver is getting better, the trapped viruses got loose and life repeats itself. I'm happy to be a demonstration to Gilead that people with Fibrosis need longer treatments, and especially with cirrhosis. I was also told I had possible early cirrhosis, so reversible.
I'm looking forward to taking the journey once again. For all of us. WE ARE WARRIORS!
"There is no state of physical decline or damage that you could not recover from—none—not any, if you knew it... If you wanted it and knew that you could. And that's those miracles that they talk about every day. They're not miracles at all, they are the natural order of things. But because they are rare, people think they are miraculous. They're not. That's the way it is supposed to be. You're supposed to thrive."
---Abraham
I feel a sense of assurance.
It's like a great burden has been lifted, this whole game of Harvoni, and HCV and all the other jazz, I just don't feel like a victim anymore, I feel I'm just enjoying the ride, wherever it takes me
I feel like I've been at war for the last 10 years, and now the war is over. I feel peace.
My head is clear, there is no fear, just a feeling of trust that everything is going to be alright.
Our internet service is down, I'm using a Hot Spot. So I have to be brief. But I am fine. Love you all!
Honestly, I feel better mentally and emotionally now than I have in a long time. The stress of waiting for my 12 week lab is gone, and I am truly happy right now.
I know the drugs work! I was undie @ 12 weeks, but not at 4 weeks. I really wanted to do 24 weeks of Harvoni, with the advance bridging fibrosis F-4 I was told I had from a biopsy in Feb 2011, 4 years before I started treatment.
It made sense to me, that with liver damage, there might be some viruses trapped behind or inside fibrosis. The only way they and the drug travels is in the blood flow. And I remember hearing 8 or so years ago that the virus can "land" anywhere in the body and take a vacation, then get swept back along by the blood into the liver and get back to business.
So as my liver is getting better, the trapped viruses got loose and life repeats itself. I'm happy to be a demonstration to Gilead that people with Fibrosis need longer treatments, and especially with cirrhosis. I was also told I had possible early cirrhosis, so reversible.
I'm looking forward to taking the journey once again. For all of us. WE ARE WARRIORS!
"There is no state of physical decline or damage that you could not recover from—none—not any, if you knew it... If you wanted it and knew that you could. And that's those miracles that they talk about every day. They're not miracles at all, they are the natural order of things. But because they are rare, people think they are miraculous. They're not. That's the way it is supposed to be. You're supposed to thrive."
---Abraham
I feel a sense of assurance.
It's like a great burden has been lifted, this whole game of Harvoni, and HCV and all the other jazz, I just don't feel like a victim anymore, I feel I'm just enjoying the ride, wherever it takes me
I feel like I've been at war for the last 10 years, and now the war is over. I feel peace.
My head is clear, there is no fear, just a feeling of trust that everything is going to be alright.
Our internet service is down, I'm using a Hot Spot. So I have to be brief. But I am fine. Love you all!
Mine has been here for me through it all too.
http://www.focusdx.com/focus/1-reference_laboratory/search_frame.asp?searchOptionScope=2&S1=1&S2=1&test=&sp=92447&Keyword=NS5A#an_92447
The BEST NEWS today is that my hubby, who had a lentigo melanoma removed from his scalp, along with a good amount of flesh in order to get it all, well, the biopsy came back and the borders of the biopsied flesh are clear, and he doesn't need anymore surgery!!!
http://www.questdiagnostics.com/testcenter/testguide.action?dc=TS_HCV_NS5A_Genotype
According to this, the test is only good for Genotype 1A and 1B. It looks like the first thing they do is genotype testing.