agree, the corruption in our country is rampant, that's why many dies from illnesses. i'm disappointed in our system.
i guess the best way is get a big pharmacy in the philippines to get it for you after you find a doc to prescribe and monitor or directly move to a close country for monitoring since you even miss all the tests to monitor response in the philippines
i remember vietnam goverment pharmacies started generic cheap peginterferon too and they have all tests like hbsag quant, hbvdna and fibroscan to monitor
I'll try to talk to the doctor about this, she is a new doctor to me because i keep on changing doctors everytime i notice that they don't know anything. Hopefully it would be a good discussion, i'll ask her about tenofovir and her thoughts about it.
There is a fibroscan in the hospital but i will also confirm it. Hoping also that they have test for hbsag quant in iu/ml as well.
Thanks a lot.
you can also add that hbv clearance on hbeag positive is irrelevant on entecavir and 16% on tenofovir at 3years, so entecavir is a total failure also in clearance rates in your case
the highest clearance was on tenofovir+peginterferon like gmr treatment, it reached 24% hbv clearance in ashort time, dont remember if 6 or 12 months, this 24% could rise much more in personalized hbsag tdf+pegintf long term treatment like tdf+pegintf for 2 years or more
it sad to say that some of our doctors here in the philippines are not so good to handle HBV patients and it happened to me personally that makes me doubtful and cautious about thier profession. this case is very rampant now in our country and our government do nothing about this. very FRUSTRATING.!
im very thankful i came up this forum ,it gave me a lots of informations and educates me as well that i cannot find to some ignorant doctors.!
pls let me know if you find a good doctor.
just got my result from fibroscan, it's 11.9kpa, very high, and according to
the result:
For Hepatitis B with elevated ALT:
Minimal or No Fibrosis = 7.5 - 12.0
Advanced Fibrosis >12.0 - 13.4
Cirrhosis > 13.4
so i'm in the gray zone, but close to advanced fribrosis. now i'm scared.
what should i do the normalize my liver?
the doctor told me to take entecavir, i talked about tenofovir but hesistant in prescribing it to me since this is not approved yet in the Philippines, this is sad.
is it ok to take entecavir? does it lessen the chance of getting into cirrhosis?
I hope i was still in immune tolerant phase. :(