I have a vague recollection but was wondering (in terms of approved use,
not trials):
- when did the 3 x week interferon treatment start for Hep C?
- was it done with Riba right from the start

Greetings all,
My 6th month post tx results are undetectable. After two rounds of tx and
three years it seems to have paid off. Thank God.
I'm proof that it works. Time to celebrate with a beer. (Long time coming)

Found a highly technical site with information and teaching modules
plus treatment updates and Conference coverage. Registration is free
and I didn't even have to lie to make the cut!
It's called "Clinical Care Options" and it's at: http://clinicaloptions.com/Hepatitis.aspx

Had my 6th shot of Peg-Intron last night. Feel fine today, except for
these incidents of eye pain. Couldn't find any relevant info on the
Web, except as a warning about some ophthalmic <sp?> side effects
during Tx.

38 of 48 last night.
Next week I begin the "10...9...8..." countdown to 0.
Thyroid pills over the last 6 weeks have gotten me back up to my
"normal" level of sides.

Selenium, an antioxidant included in multivitamin tablets thought to
have a possible protective effect against the development of type 2
diabetes, may actually increase the risk of developing the disease, an
analysis by researchers at the University at Buffalo has shown.

Well another one bites the dust.
Ron

I am printing the below flyers and leaving them in my vehicle along
with tape, push pins and a stapler and posting them any time I have
the opportunity.
If one person avoids getting this dreaded disease my job will have

I am printing the below flyers and leaving them in my vehicle along
with tape, push pins and a stapler and posting them any time I have
the opportunity.
If one person avoids getting this dreaded disease my job will have

It's me, Her Thipness, doing Google groups for the first time since
I'm at work.
I have an inmate here with me who was just dx'd 1B.  Can anyone tell
me about it?  Is there much difference between it and 1A?

Science Daily - A new study on predicting outcomes of standard
treatment for hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection found that a number of
factors impacted responses, including the form of the interferon
given. However, for some genotypes of the disease, few of these

Have HCV genotype 1. Started at 1 million viral load then today's week 4
result came back at 100,000. Dr said he was disappointed and was hoping for
better. He did say it was in the normal range though. Is that really a
disappointing result at week 4? I thought it was a bit ...

http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2007/07/10/giuliani_blas
ts_medical_marijuana_supporters/
If you didn't already have plenty of reasons to reject this popinjay...
/greyhackles

Hi group.  For those of you who are interested, here are a couple new
blurbs about milk thistle from recent medical journals. (Source
www.pubmed.gov ).  The full articles are not available without $$ :-(   I
follow the research and take 300mg daily (low dose) because I  relapsed

3rd alt level test post treatment
28!
Pretreatment it was 400+