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viral blood count

my daughter has hep c and her viral load blood count was 16 million. what does that mean? i know it cant be...

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Hi all, I'm grateful to have found this group. I'm going to provide some history so my present...

Posted by jumpingoffplace131

Hi all,

I'm grateful to have found this group. I'm going to provide some history so my present makes a little sense. I'm going to try to be brief. (Try is the key word...)

I'm a 34 year old single mom of 2. When I was 14 I was diagnosed with Hep C. It is possible that I contracted it from a blood transfusion at birth (I was a preemie- no one told me why a transfusion was needed, just that I had had one), or from sexual abuse. There are no other explanations- I've never been an IV drug user, nor do I have any tattoos. I didn't understand at age 14 what I was being told. I was a "ward of the state" at that point and was basically passed around from place to place until I was 18. By age then I had a serious drinking problem (I've been sober for 8 years now).

Over the years I've been sick. Fatigue, weakness, loss of appetite, and generally just feeling horrible. The only way I can describe it is it feels like the flu, without the fever.

I have genotype 1a. My former liver specialist (now retired) told me, after a ton of blood work and a liver biopsy that treatment was not a viable option- that there was only a 20% chance that it would work and that it would make me so sick that the benefit didn't outweigh the risk.

From what I understand, some other conditions that I have are a direct result of the chronic liver disease: a gallbladder full of stones and a splenic aneurysm.

Now I'll get to what brings me here... For the past 2 months I've been CONSTANTLY sick- not the kind that I'm used to that seems to come and go. It's not going away. I'm bloated, it feels like every part of my body is retaining fluid or swelling. It's so bad that my clothes are tight. I've been fainting- out of no where- sometimes several times a day. I can't take any kind of OTC medicine for ANYTHING without it making me dreadfully sick. Last week I took 2 Excedrin Migraine pills because I just couldn't take it anymore and shortly after I was vomiting, weak and ITCHY. I felt like I'd rolled in poison ivy but I couldn't satisfy the itch. My legs are shaky/weak- they feel as if they could "give out" whenever I stand. And I'm moody. Big time. Kind of like PMS but so much worse. I'm never like this. I don't understand? I can't concentrate (I'm a software engineer so this is BAD), I can't focus, heck I can barely get motivated to get out of bed.

I'm fortunate to have a few really good friends who are urging me to see a different/new doctor. I'll be honest. I'm terrified. I don't know what any of this means and I'm not sure I want to know. One woman from my church who went through a liver transplant 16 years ago told me that mentioned that what I've been experiencing could be from ammonia in my blood. Does this sound familiar to any of you?

I need someone to be honest with me, even if it's bad. I have two little kids to think about and no matter happens to me they need to be taken care of.

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I just joined this board needing advise and support, diagnosed 7 months ago. Starting Treatment in 2 weeks and...

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There "IS" A CURE but GREED is keeping us from get...

Shame, Shame, Shame on these GREEDY $ MONEY & PROFIT Driven people to CONTINUE to ALLOW people to SUFFER...

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2nd tx

VL is now 65,000,000! Had tx 12 yrs ago, non-responder after 7 mos. of tx. Need to tx again and not happy...

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lung transplant and hep c

I am in need of a lung transplant. My doctor has told me that because of my hep c, I most likely can not get...

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ALL HCV SUPPORT GROUPS: We need YOUR HELP and so do the other 170 million people with HCV!

This past April 2012, results of a drug trial by Gilead Sciences and Bristol-Myers, combining GS-7977 daclatasvir (formerly BMS 790052), were released at the European Study for Liver Disease. This drug combination CURED 100% of genotype 1, and 91% of genotype 2/3"026.WITHOUT interferon OR ribavirin. (See attached screen shot of results.)

To the dismay of the HCV community and clinicians/doctors, Gilead Sciences (the company with GS-7977) announced they would not be going forward with Phase III trials due to "profit concerns".

Quoting Dr. Scott Friedman, chief of liver diseases at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York: "The only appropriate motivation should be what is the best and fastest way to get cures, not what is best for the shareholders."

We have formed a grassroots efforts, the Texas HCV Coalition for The Cure, and have started a petition atChange.org "urging" Gilead Sciences to move forward immediately with trials for this life-saving drug combination of GS-7977 daclatasvir.

In essence, it is as follows:

Two Companies: Gilead Sciences and Bristol-Myers Squibb

Two Drugs: GS-7977 daclatasvir

One Cure: For Hepatitis C (without ribavirin or interferon)

We are reaching out to everyone in the HCV community groups, doctors and clinicians, the AASLD, ALF, U.S. Senator John Cornyn, and local media here in south Texas. We have created a Facebook page called Hepatitis C Can Be Cured and invite you to join it for continued updates about this extremely urgent and dire situation. Once you are at the website for the petition, you can view various links to TV, newspaper articles, youtube videos, etc. (link below).

You can help us in this URGENT matter by signing the petition at Change.org at the link provided below, and please ask anyone and everyone you know to sign as well. We currently have over 6000 signatures and are working hard to get as many as possible and as quickly as possible.

Please feel free to contact me at any time if you or your support group has any questions or needs additional information.

Sincerely,

Margaret Dudley
Texas HCV Coalition for The Cure
210-493-0304
mdudley@sbcglobal.net

Link to petition:
http://www.change.org/petitions/gilead-sciences-please-collaborate-with-bristol-myers-for-the-cure-for-hepatitis-c-now

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suppliment for cronic hepc symptoms

I have been suffering from just about every symptom there is connected to cronic HepC for many years. I never...

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I went to my followup and the results of my blood test showed the hep c was undetected.I did a 11 month of Peg....

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well i found out through giving blood.

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I just successfully finished treatment. Your gastro doc will probably do some more tests (blood work,...

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I'm here. How's it going?

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it was the 70s...it could have been anybody ; ) I have 2 days left and I will have compelted the 24 weeks....

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5 weeks of Incivec

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HEPATITIS C Market Research [WebMD]

ARE YOU OVER 18 YEARS OF AGE AND HAVE HEPATITIS C? If you have been diagnosed with Hepatitis C, you may be...

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"NEW" TRIAL - NO Interferon & NO Biopsy ALL pills

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