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Twice Daily Incivek..people choose to wait

ImKramer
ImKramer
Vertexs Incivek twice-daily dosing schedule insufficient to entice HCV patients waiting for new drugs.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/75a73804-285e-11e2-a335-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2BUjapfpz
crystalcrane
crystalcrane
Maybe they should push the better and more tolerable drugs instead of the ones that make people so sick.
ImKramer
ImKramer
They have to recoup the dollars spent on developing the drugs. I expect Incivek will be at The Dollar Store soon ...lol
crystalcrane
crystalcrane
well, they better do something before the other drug companies beat them out, the first on the market with an easy to take pill is going to win the prize.
ImKramer
ImKramer
Abbott :)
http://www.abbott.com/news-media/press-releases/abbotts-investigational-interferonfree-hepatitis-c-treatment-regimen-achieved-svr12-observed-data.htm
kcaseytn
kcaseytn
@ Kramer - http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT01687257?term=hcv+%2B+gilead&recr=Open&rank=11

This has got to be one for you.

And Incivek is on it's way out. Given a choice of Abbott or Gilead - I can't even think about taking Vertex's incivek with another one of their DAA's in development. It's like brand rejection.
ImKramer
ImKramer
Thanks Kc. I don't have varicies so now I am too healthy.
Thank you for thinking of me. I have every confidence the Liver Centre at Toronto Western will have the right fit for me soon!
xoxoxoxo
deleted_user
deleted_user
Wow! That was amazing and scarry. I'm glad I'm done. Glad it worked. Glad I had ins for it. I will be curious next month when I see my Dr for follow up what he thinks. I'll let you know
jester18
jester18
Twice a day would have been nice, I hated to get up at 11PM. Missed a couple doses because of that.
deleted_user
deleted_user
I did 504 pills of that nasty stuff.Did become undectable.HCV never sleeps.
erniecoolcat
erniecoolcat
Sorry but I think the 79 cent dollar bin is a deserving place for that drug and its side effect profile.

I just had to add my 29 cents. Oh sh!t, I don't have enough.
erniecoolcat
erniecoolcat
Sorry but I think the 79 cent dollar bin is a deserving place for that drug and its side effect profile.

I just had to add my 29 cents. Oh sh!t, I don't have enough.
erniecoolcat
erniecoolcat
Sorry but I think the 79 cent dollar bin is a deserving place for that drug and its side effect profile.

I just had to add my 29 cents. Oh sh!t, I don't have enough.
deleted_user
deleted_user
Incivek cleared me up nicely, but it was awful. I'd wait if I had to make the same decision now...
deleted_user
deleted_user
Incivek cleared me up nicely, but it was awful. I'd wait if I had to make the same decision now...
deleted_user
deleted_user
Incivek cleared me up nicely, but it was awful. I'd wait if I had to make the same decision now...