Bruins are gonna win the cup !! hehehe

Catmagic.....I understand your delima. I met with my dr yesterday about my biopsy and my fibrosis is stage 2. Now part of me wants to get this over with and behind me. Daily, it is constantly in the back of my mind that i am a Hepper. So that does add stress and stress only makes us miserable. Now he stressed multiple times to me that the virus progresses VERY slowly and if I were cirrrotic, we would have a different story and he would recommend treating now. He agreed with my thoughts that even if I have to wait a year, my liver will not be any worse off than it is now, at at least not a measurable amount.
Knowing all of this and the fact that Abvvie is fast tracked, I am waiting. I do not want to do interferon unless all else fails.
So Call me W...the Hepper. LOL W is for waiting.

I'm glad you clarified what the W stood for - with a mind like mine, it was already spinning and making up W words before I finished reading that sentence and found out.

For me, waiting is the plan. NEVER NEVER Interferon for this pussycat. And I'd just as soon leave Riba out of the mix too - which may be possible. SO MUCH is happening right now, Clay. The pharma "big guns" are all lined up, locked and loaded. They want a return on their investments - good thing they have to get FDA approval - for our safety. I salute the warriors who did all these trials. Yes, they wanted to CURE - but bottom line is the drugs are still experimental. If not for those brave guys and gals, all this GREAT STUFF on the NEAR horizon would not be so near. The timeline for Gen 1's has been pushed up a YEAR - to 2014 - since a few months ago. Trials still ongoing - final data being gathered and submitted. I am sure that in my case waiting is the right thing to do - can't speak for you, but with a Stage 2, you have plenty of time.

I have dwelt mentally - and emotionally - on my HCV for the past year, when the tests and images and that damn messed up bx forced me to realize I DO HAVE HCV. For 10 years after dx, all tests and labs looked great. So I never even thought about it unless I was going in for my six-month check-ups. I am TIRED of having to think about this full-time - but I can't help it either. It means so much to me to be part of this forum where the information, thanks mainly to Kramer, is being posted about the incredible fast tracking of these drugs - and that they WORK - and very few sides - Riba will give most people some - but maybe you and I and others won't have to take it. If I do, fine - my doc. will start me off as low a dosage as he thinks will be needed - and provide rescue drugs or take me down more or even OFF it if warranted.

We're gonna be okay. Yepper, hepper.

I have realized that I neglected to mention anyone other than Kramer as far as posting the latest news and giving us needed information and clarification. MANY of you post links for us. MANY of you are forthcoming with all kinds of detailed posts that are so helpful. So, I'm sorry to anyone I left out. If I start naming names now, I'll make a bigger mess of it. Please, just know that I am sorry for making it seem like there was only one person here to whom I am grateful or who was the "main" source of information. I wish I could take the whole damn post back, but I can't. My big mouth. Open and insert foot. I didn't mean to offend anyone, but that's no excuse, is it?

Forgive me, please. I am so sorry. I hate the fact that we can't change our posts on this forum.

Not to worry cat, I know you appreciate the links to the pron sites that I have provided you.

ha ha - "pron" sites - yesl, I have very much appreciated the HARD PORN sites you've given me links to. Are you in some of them - literally and figuratively?

LOVE THIS AVIE of yours today!

Ya comin' to Ozzie's party? It's getting started! Early - as we have a lot of places to go. Lear jet is going across the country right now picking up all the attendees. Be there or be square! Check the thread - gonna start a new one in a few hours once we have everyone on board the plane and land in Miami.

My airport is in my front yard, literally. Fulton international airport, Fulton, KY. Population 2300. Picke up at 5

Jet will come and get ya - some of us are in Miami already - see new thread.

@ Clay, can you get into phase three with the Abbvie? I was just a little confused b/c later you posted interferon. If you have to travel and have some expense there, would be less than when this drug hits the market? I think these drug prices are going to be high and I was just wondering. I think there are lot of tough decisions to be made.My best to you.

Does anyone have the drugs names/numbers that are being referred to in this article? And is this cure for G1a's without the drug RBV?

http://hcvadvocate.blogspot.ca/p/interferon-free.html

Thanks Kramer :.)

Still wondering if new drugs in trial will take longer to be approved for post-transplant patients. I'm having a biopsy on May 3, and my third annual exams, MRI abdomen, CT chest, and bone scan, sometime in July to make sure there's no recurrence of the cancer I had before transplant, and they don't expect a problem there. The thing that's been holding up triple treatments for me has been the kidney functions readings.
If the biopsy on May 3 and the tests in July, by some miracle, should show no signicant changes since last year, maybe I could wait for new drugs in trial after all, if they are going to be given to post-transplant patients. Just maybe it's a blessing in disguise that my kidney functions are holding up treatments. But my Hep C is more aggressive since my transplant 3 years ago.

I do also have that partial blockage in the portal vein, and low white and red counts and low hemoglobin that the doctors are looking at too, another reason why I'm being pushed to do triple a soon as the kidney functions are better.

I hope that is the case for you Marilyn.
Keep us posted of your results.