4 week labs, count so low as to be classed undetectable!!! It seems to be working! Just gotta hunker down, keep taking the tablets, and get thru the next 19 weeks! Doc says evidence is that I should get more used to the side FX, and I am already. The worst is that intense and unpredictable fatigue that hits sometimes, but usually it does not last too long. The exercise is def helping.

Rocker - that is GREAT!Q Yes, you are slaughtering that dragon!

So encouraging to see positive results!
Down side of week 6 S&R, here. Still detectable, but trudging the road to happy destiny

rockerc

great for you and I'm doing pretty good with results as well, my count is down from 4mil to 593, but the side effects are kicking in sooner than I thought they would, and I have 10 weeks to go.

Finish 4 17 2014 feel great.The problems I had was to feel real weak,and cry a lot.I feel so much better now,my numbers are normal and negative.I wish everybody could get the chance I feel blessed.I still have fibrosis

PaulW thank you for sharing your post treatment encouragement! Very happy to learn you are undetectable.
Starting week 7 of solv/riba with lower riba dose. Still detectable at 4 weeks but I'm going the distance so long as I can. Looks possible to me.

ending 3rd wk tomorrow
had no interest in anything today, could be because my hubby pissed me off last night, walking up a slight 200' hill exhausted me.slept most of the day.

no other side effects

Week 6 - 6/16/14, Sovaldi-Olysio-Ribavirin. Undy sinse week 4. I fill blessed to have insurance through huby, to cover biggest part of this.Sides are off and on fatige, moodiness. Hard time sleeping at times. So fare this is a cake walk compared to the interferon thing. Week 5 my red blood count went down a little and HGB & Hemcrit bouth dropped some . We will see what happens with next week BW.

Starting week 8 of solv & riba 600. Five weeks to go. Don't know yet when I'll get another VL. See the doc next Monday.

One quarter of the way thru this thing now. Just did 6 week labs, but these do not include the HCV count, just the rest of the panels. I will have to wait for the 8 weeks to see how that is going. Sides seem to be leveling out, I have also been taking an E3 Live algae supplement each day, and this seems to be helping some, altho it is hard to know if it is that causing the slight improvement. It's good for me anyway, so I'll keep taking it whatever! Still having the fatigue, but at least that is a little more predictable, and also having some low grade but annoying joint pain sometimes. Guess my age doesn't help on that one!

rocker, very encouraging!
I have some terrible days then the next is fine. Hope it works that way for others, too. A bad day isn't the end of the world. Five weeks to go...solv/riba

Hi rockerc
I'm a little over 1/2 way through on a 16 week Tx regimen of Sov/Rib I have 31 days left and have been working in a parts store all the way through. My boss is aware of my Tx and lets me slide when he sees me sitting at the top of the stairs trying to catch my breath
Fatigue is off and on but more on than off.
I was having a low HGB issue and am diabetic but red meat and eggs in the morning have brought my HGB back up by three points.
Still breathing through the mouth but not as bad as before.
It is a doable Tx compared to the Peg/Rib that failed me before.
Strangely enough, there are no VL checks on my Tx till two weeks after EOT and then at eight and twelve weeks. Their reasoning is that I don't need the added stress. The GI team is confident that this Tx combo will work.
I hope the numbers prove them right.

Good luck a1napadude, it just goes to show that there are so many different variations on the Tx. I had not heard of 16 weeks with this combo. I was worried that my insurers might balk at the 24 weeks I have scheduled, but my doc says this is the FDA approved Tx for my Genotype and circumstances, so no danger of that. I was

rocker & a1, I am surprised that so many of us are on a 12week tx, because from what I've seen, we should be on longer & more intense tx.
I'm half expecting my dr to suggest extending my tx length because : I'm not undie yet, and we had to reduce the riba @ 6 weeks. Too bad I couldn't stay on a 1000mg till 8 weeks but my body doesn't tolerate riba.
I think the folks on 3 way have a better chance - just my opinion - and no, I can't do interferon again.
Just my thoughts here - I'm not an MD or self proclaimed expert. I'm only musing out loud not arguing debating creating discord or negativity etc
I'm on solv/ 600riba for 12wks.

I am geno 3A - week 13...of 24 weeks.
Been up and down with fatigue, dryness is killing me.

Waiting to hear on week 12 viral load, will be at least a week more.
my Week 4 VL was 12, and the girl screwed up and didn't take my
week 8 VL - so I am in the dark here.

I woke up today and just stared at my pills. First time I am having doubts about whether I can continue this tx.
So many invites to go places, but everything is so hard for me, always tired. Would have loved a 12 week tx.

Was in good mood last 2 days, I am sure I wore myself out, so I am speaking with an infected dental implant, exhaustion from overdoing it, and pissed that no one has contacted me on this tx
to see how I am doing - even though I made a call. (not my doc,
I mean the Help Line thru Pharmacy).

I am NOT normally this negative, bad morning. I just want this over, think the antibiotics are drying me out even more and adding nausea. SCARED TO DEATH OF LOSING IMPLANT OR I SHOULD SAY THE 2 TEETH ATT'D TO IT!!

Maybe I should have not posted, but I don't want everyone to think this is a cakewalk all the time AS it is NOT....
just speaking from my heart!!

This is hard on our LOVED ONES that live with us - so I try to go
easy on Hubby, but we all know "I explode pretty easily on this stuff - but getting easier to keep temper in check, NOT THOUGHTS!!