It was the boogers!  :-)
Elmo
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Well, Elmo, you would be included in the "incremental benefit" ;-)
except you screwed up any retrospective study value by adding in the
daily Infergen on that third round....No way to know which did the
trick...but I have my suspicions, and either way, you won't lose any
sleep over it now ;-)
Cheers
/greyhackles
I used Amantadine in my third and successful round of tx, along with
Infergen, Pegasys and ribavirin.
Elmo
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Re: Treating Hep C with PK Mertz?
Group: alt.support.hepatitis-c Date: Thu, Jul 28, 2005, 10:53pm (CDT+1)
From: greyhackles@NOSPAMyahoo.com (greyhackles)
Hello,
Does anyone have exoereince with or knowledge of treating chronic
hepatitis C with a medicine called PK Mertz? The doctors have prescribed
it to a friend who lives in Europe and was a nonresponder to interferon.
Do you know if it is effective, whether it has side effects, whether it
is normal to use it for hepatits c treatment or any thing else about it
that might be useful?
aka "Amantadine Hydrochloride", an anti-viral agent that has been shown
in a few trials to provide limited benefit on its own (I don't believe
anyone has achieved a documented SVR on Amantadine alone) but has
incremental benefit wrt ITT SVR rates when combined with Peg-IFN and
Ribavirin.
Google Amantadine and you'll have plenty of reference documents to
review...
Cheers
/greyhackles
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