I hope everyone is doing well. August 4th will be the big day. I got a
great Hepatologist at UCI Medical Center. I am starting 15 Infergen and
1200 Ribavirin daily.
My new primary in Laguna is an Internal medicine doc who treats a lot of

She's in surgery.  I hope to see her this weekend if she is well
enough.  She needs to get better before her trip to Germany coming up
soon.

Well I saw my doc today about my thyroid test's.  I do have antibodies which
may or may not resolve it's self. MRI scan shows no problems with my
hypothalamus and pituitary glands.
We both agreed to let things go for a while, not take thyroxin and stay on

Well hello! I am back....  Randy

Well it's been a long, long, long hard road.
Lost my job. Could not work. Hep C.
AND
Finally, after two tries and four long years,

Here is a 1997 article that I dredged up searching rheumatology +
hepatitis.  The poor patients have a host of miserable extrahepatic
manifestations of HCV.    They took  3,000,000 IU of interferon alpha 3
times a week for six months and the symptoms cleared up.  I post this

Three witches watch three Swatch watches. Which witch watches which
Swatch watch?
and an extra challenge for the advanced:
Three switched witches watch three Swatch watch switches. Which

Time to get back on track. And find out how is every one doing. John in
Hawaii how it feeling to be done with tx are you better? And then there
are the others on tx, CJ haven't heard from you, you must have 10 shots
to go. MaryAnn hope your doing ok and not eating any food that ...

About two weeks ago I tried to start a political action.  Looking at the
statistics, I see I had hundreds of people visit my site.  I am still
confused; how come so many heppers are more than willing to post in these
"support" forums, which nobody but other heppers reads, yet nobody ...

I know it's about 3 years late going up, but I posted your pic in the FA
today.  My sincere apologies for it taking so long.  I found it not too
long ago in my saved email messages to another addy I've got.  I think I
must have put it there because of all the pics everyone was ...

New York, July 18, 2005
     Scientists have for the first time produced an infectious form of the
hepatitis C virus in the laboratory that is expected to lead to more
effective treatments that could save millions of lives.

Well yesterday I got my sinuses scraped out, what fun. But the soreness has
subsided quite a bit. One more health issue hopeful gone. I can feel the
pressure between my eyes gone. A good thing as at times the headaches were
some badassed ones. Probably why I haven't been posting ...

New Hep C Drug: XTLbio Receives Fast Track Designation for Hepatitis C
Therapy from US Food and Drug Administration
Rehovot, Israel, 18 July 2005 - XTL Biopharmaceuticals Ltd ("XTLbio") (LSE:
XTL) today announced that it has received Fast Track designation from the

Hi there folks,
Although new to the group I have been reading the group's messages
throughout my treatment. 47 years old, Genotype 3 I was diagnosed Aug
2004 when I was also diagnosed with kidney cancer. Kidney removed Sept.

I am new here and thought to say hello and introduce myself...so ...
Hello I'm Melody...I live in Pennsylvania.  I've known for a long time
I have Hep but found out on Friday they want me to start treatment I
guess this coming week (waiting to see how my insurance wants me to