About two years ago, I wandered in here and lurked for awhile as I was
starting treatment for my Hep C.  Never participated much, but I did
like reading posts from people who were going through the same thing I
was.  I failed to get an SVR.  In fact, the virus had returned in week
24 but due to problems with the lab, I didin't even find out until a
year after my treatment had ended.  As you can understand, I was
crestfallen and a bit angry that I had been subjected to an additional
5 months of unnecessary side effects.

There is a new study that is specifically for Genotype 1 patients that
did not respond to the conventional therpay.  It's the same drill with
the peg-intron and ribavirin, excepth they have added an experimental
drug called boceprevir (a protease inhibitor) which has it's own set
of delightful side effects..  From what I understand, the initial
results have been very promising.  

I start again Friday.  I have this unreal since of dread about the 48
weeks of feeling ill, but I still think it's the right thing to do.

Graham