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Hi, I can't imagine them telling you that you have a 60% chance of cure! That's just not true!! 1 a's and 1b is the hardest to cure. I did the Peg for a yr. along with 2 other online friends all within wks. of each other the one was doing the whole vial, his own dosing the other one the same as me. The one went SVR, still at three yrs., me and the one who was doing the whole vial responded but relapsed shortly there after. There is no way a Dr. can give you a percentage because the fact is 90% 1a and 1b will relapse!

I am glad I did the treatment because it did my liver a lot of good.But I could give you names of a lot of people who are sorry they did treatment due to lasting side for the rest of there lives and there are a bunch who just won't do treatment at all.

I am in no way trying to talk you out of this and your Dr. is very right when it comes to being positive! If your going to do it you have to go into it positive and bound to finish it and hope for success nop matter what. I wish you all the success in fighting this! It was doable and not near as tough as when I did the reg. interferon , three shots a wk. for 8 mos. of hell! I didn't respond at all. We will all be here to help you through it!

Teri

...latest news

okay. here is the latest results....i was notified yesterday that my blood tests came back and i am 1A. my viral load is in the millions, so it is safe to say that i have probably had this since 1977 when i got a blood transfusion for a ruptured tubal pregnancy. i will have a biopsy on march 3rd and afterwards will start treatment for 46 weeks. they are giving me a 60% chance. do any of you have any comments on this news. i am not real positive at this time even tho they say i need to stay positive. they told me that i will feel like i have the flu for a yr while i am taking treatment. anyone else been here? and if so what happened?

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i refuse to believe that i will not be cured. i had a

pity party for a couple of days and now i am in

fighting mode. i dont want to stick my head in the

sand and believe that there is a good chance i wont

recover, but i WILL NOT let negative get me either. i

am feeling tooooo good to believe that there is no

cure. i am not asking that it be completely eradicated

cause i know that is a slim chance, but if i can LIVE,

that is fine with me, i will deal with it.

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Hi I haven't been on this site alot lately but I read your message and

I have 1A also. I have taken Pegasys/Rib for 48 weeks and not

responded then I tried Infergen daily w/Rib for 30 weeks and hep C got

worse!! AST ALT went thru the roof while on treatment. I'm not

negative and I hope you have great results w/the treatment. It is alot

like have the flu 24/7 and I lost alot of hair, itch alot also. They

have 2 new drugs that are in clinicals now you should ask your dr

about them BEFORE you go on pegasys or infergen. They won't take you

if you tried the others first. One is from Vertex VX-950 and other is

Idun IDN-6556. I have a friend that is in the trial for VX-950 and she

has almost no side effects and she is responding well. Take care

Margaret

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> okay. here is the latest results....i was notified yesterday that my

> blood tests came back and i am 1A. my viral load is in the millions,

> so it is safe to say that i have probably had this since 1977 when i

> got a blood transfusion for a ruptured tubal pregnancy. i will have

a

> biopsy on march 3rd and afterwards will start treatment for 46

weeks.

> they are giving me a 60% chance. do any of you have any comments on

> this news. i am not real positive at this time even tho they say i

> need to stay positive. they told me that i will feel like i have the

> flu for a yr while i am taking treatment. anyone else been here? and

> if so what happened?

>