Well this eavening im up for the final shot and only one week of riba
left, so i will celebrate with some sparkling water!
I was planning to go for another 12 weeks, my MD said OK, but i feel
that enough is enough and im running on fumes.

For many of us (like those with long-standing type 1 HCV) the current
combination therapy seems to have a high risk-benefit ratio.  Here's
some hope while we wait for second generation drugs.
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At 6 months the Dragon is undetectable.
6 more months of fun :-)
Thank you all for all your support :-)

Katie had bloodwork done again and is still undetectable!
Mom

Began Tx May 30th. 0.5 Pegintron once a week and 1000mg Ribavirin
every day...
On a scale of 1=no sweat to 10=I can't take it, I quit Tx, I suppose
I'm about 5.5-6.0, maybe. Starting to have some real good brain fog

Has anyone seen this article posted on Yahoo today?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20070522/hl_hsn/studysuggestscureforhepatitisc
If I'm understanding it correctly, the 99% pecent seven-year
no-detectable-virus statistic they mention only applies to

Read below, looks as if Lookout was bashing a gay man that has
hepatitis C. The sick man threatened to turn him in to his ISP
Lookout has been trolling Usenet and the web forums for many years
in his pursuit to hurt people.  He is not human!

I would like to hear some opinions/comments regarding having a firearm
readily available
while on TX.
If one lives in an area where it is not unusual for someone to break

This is reassuring.
kj
http://www.upi.com/Health_Business/Analysis/2007/04/12/analysis_total_hepatitis_
c_cure_possible/

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

Just search Google and Ask.com for alayanke@yahoo.com,
lookout@cableone.net, and alayanke@bellsouth.net,  and you will find
posts by Lookout that bashes Gays, cancer patients, hepatitis
patients, and more. He is a loser with no life and must resort to

Read below, looks as if Lookout was bashing a gay man that has
hepatitis C. The sick man threatened to turn him in to his ISP
Lookout has been trolling Usenet and the web forums for many years
in his pursuit to hurt people.  He is not human!

Anyone have any info or studys about this?  Would someone infected
with a blood transfusion progress faster than someone lets say with a
coke straw or needle prick.  I can't seem to find any info on this.
Ron

In my fifth week of Tx and wondering:
I don't have diarrhea but rather quite loose stools and they almost
all have a rather "explosive" quality at first. Basically, it hurts
and burns. What to do?