I cleared! I cleared!

[ChrisDDD]

"10/08/14 11:50 am IMMUNOLOGY

                            **FINAL REPORT 10/10/14**

   HCV VIRAL LOAD (Final 10/10/14):
      HCV-RNA NOT DETECTED.
      Performed using Cobas Ampliprep / Cobas Taqman HCV v2.0 Test.
      Linear range of quantification: 1.50E+01 IU/mL - 1.00E+08 IU/mL.
      Limit of detection: 1.50E+01 IU/mL."

Omg!!  This is the first time in over 37 years I have not had Hepatitis C!  Genotype 1a, simeprevir and sofosbuvir 12 weeks.  I'm so happy I feel like running through the streets yelling "I cleared!  I cleared!!  I'm well!!"  I know it can come back and we have scheduled visits for blood draws going out to April, but I'm not going to think about that.  I feel so good, it feels like someone gave me back the body I had 30 or 40 years ago!!!!!

[can-do-man]

Congrats on being UND at EOT. It's now been a month are they going to do a 4 week post treatment viral load? Best to you.

[Livelife777]

While your eating your BLT and painting your table, I'm contemplating going back to France for a few months.  Your right Chris, this is a life changing experience and a real awakening just to feel normal again.  
Soon we will all know the way life was intended to be lived.  Counting the days till then.....
Happy for you!
.....Kim

[Advocate1955]

Congratulations!
Advocate1955

[Dee1956]

I had to come back again and say congratulations!
I love your comment about the "new thoughts" that is such a good thing to hear.  Thinking forward!!
I am so happy for you
Dee

[Sovaldi13Newbie]

So, so happy for you! We'll all soon be doing the happy dance!!!!

[Carlhcv]

That is awesome man! Congratulations. It helps give me hope too. :) Love you and feel so good for you!

[thruwithhep]

That is great news and I am going to be right behind you, I have 3 more weeks to go until I am finished with Sol/Oly. The stuff is amazing! NO side effects. I only have had 1 viral load test at two weeks in and it was <15. Doc is not taking another one until Nov 6 , which is only 1 week away from EOT.

[hepcandme]

Happy Birthday!

What a great present! Enjoy your hep C free life!

~ Linda

[secondtimesacharm]

I also found out today that I am cured. GenotypeA. 12 Weeks of sovaldi,ribivirin and pegintron. It is an unbelieveable feeling after failing once before.
Since 1997 I thought I was going to get liver cancer.Now I am working on rebuilding.

[keepingOnkeepingOn]

Very good news. I understand the new thinking too. Instead of preparing to die we now think about living. I am so happy for you.

[ChrisDDD]

Thank you for all the congratulations!!  This is a wonderful place to share good news and to receive comfort and support as well.

Bassetgirl, yes, I am cirrhotic, Child's Class A, genotype 1a.

I'm still having fatigue off and on, like today, but I know my body's been through a huge ordeal and I need to listen and rest, eat well.  But the way I can tell I'm cured is I'm having thoughts like what do I want to be for Halloween?  I think I'll paint that table a different color.  I'm going to rearrange the living room.  I'm going to the cafe and have a BLT and work on the jigsaw puzzle:  thoughts that have never even occurred to me for years.  That's how long I've been that sick.  Wow.  Even if I relapse, I've had this peek into what my life used to be and what I hope it can be again.  October 21 I turn 60 years old.  Best present I could have ever asked for is NOT DETECTED.  :)

[sue4hula]

Yay Mary!!  Congratulations on your 4 week EOT Undetected!  I'm calling my doc to see if he will give me a 12 week test 10/31.  Want to know so I can celebrate or get my new armor on!

[marivirginia]

yeehah!!!!!!! congratulations!!!!

[jsf52]

Congrats on your great news!

[Mmorgan856]

Hey Susan.  Are you scheduled for a 4 wk. VL test?  I thought you would find out earlier.  Just got back 4 wk EOT VL today an undetected.  Gosh, hate to hear you have to wait till Jan..  Either way, sending you good wishes.  Mary

[flyinlynn]

Fantastic news congratulations! Welcome to your new hep c free life!

[HopeInPA]

Oh what a wonderful news! Hope I'll be saying the same when my 12 wks EoT is up, which is in the end of this month.

Congratulations!

[McGirl555]

Congratulations! Great news! Thanks for sharing. It gives hope. After 37 years. Celebrate this! Take good care of yourself. Again, WOW and congrats!

[nygirl7]

Congrats Chris! So happy to know you cleared!

Debby

[susan400]

Congratulations!  I felt like that, too, when I finally heard those words.., 'undetected'.  I had tried so many treatments and for so many years, when I first heard them say it, I felt like I was in shock, like I was dreaming!  Now, I'm waiting to see if it will turn into an SVR - hoping so!  I get my 3 mon. post TX viral load in mid-Dec, but probably won't hear results until after first of the year.

Susan400

[Sovaldi13Newbie]

I've seen you around for a long time, I'm just so happy for you!!!! (I did the last vl draw last Friday, hope we're both on that train!) ;-) Be well and prosper!

[GoGG]

Congratulations! What wonderful energy and news. It is a sweet feeling when you clear. Now pamper yourself. You deserve it.

[patra_]

Congratulations!!!  Now step proudly out onto the Daid and accept you dragon Slayer Suprerm Insignia!!   Wonderful news!

Please look through the last previous 2 - 3 pgs of posts and dind the one from nan535 - SVR or Relapse and POST YOU GOOD NEWS AND INFO.  

This gives us a way of 'keeping score' as it were.

Now, do a BIG Happy Dance - all ready?  One and uh two and uh ......  : -)

Pat

[bassetgirl]

I'm so happy for you!!! One question: are you cirrhotic?  I'm asking because I'm also 1a, Sovaldi/Olysio for 12 weeks, but am compensated cirrhotic- will have my 12 week after treatment blood work done on Oct. 23rd. Am trying to be hopeful.