Just Curious and Hopeful

[warren9172]

Has any one been cleared and  considered cured after treament

[cheflady]

Hi and welcome. My hubby treated last yr with riba incivek& interferon and he achieved SVR and is considered cured. I wish you all the very best please keep us posted. Kind regards Jules

[candyce1953]

Oh I am 1b, was naive never tx, stage 3, but with auto immune primary billary cirhosis complication

[candyce1953]

I am not SVR, but I am 4+8 week post treatment undetected Sovaldi and olysio, keeping my fingers crossed on last labs in two weeks
And hope it sticks for years to come, but yes as someone else said these drugs are so new, who really knows?

[Livelife777]

The new meds are totally different from the older treatment.   On this new protocol with Sovaldi, if you make UND, 3 months after completion, you are considered cured, and it will never come back.  This treatment is so new, lets just hope they are right.   Wyosue, started a new thread which talks about
"Host Factors", which will give you the %s of if you will clear with these meds or not.  You can see where she has posted this review.
Good luck with treatment.
Let us know how your doing.
..Kim.

[warren9172]

Thanks Kim
I am geno type 1a stage 3
I began treatment today with the Olysio and Sovaldi combo after previous treatment with Incivik, Riba and Interferon which helped when I was on it but it came back the minute a got off.
Which is why I posed the questioned.

[Catalan]

Well, I was told I was cured after becoming undetectable after 4 months of treatment and meds stopped at 7 months and with regular labs for another year or so.  Then BAM 6 months ago I was told I was positive again.  So cured?  Maybe my doctor stopped meds too soon even though my reaction to the treatment was stellar.

I had genotype 1a, the most difficult with co-infection of HIV.

[Livelife777]

Hi, and welcome.   I started my treatment for Hep C, Jan 15, 2014.   My genotype was 2,  mild cirrhosis, treatment naive, 352 viral load, (true). Treated with Ribavirin/Sovaldi for 12 weeks.  Had my 3 month post treatment
(SVR) mid June.  Was UND, or considered cured.
Other then clinical trials the combo that I took is rather new.  We are of the understanding if the virus remains undetectable 3 months post treatment that your cured.  I believe it may be premature to say cured at this point for sure, but myself and others are hoping for this outcome.
Many of us are now getting our lab results back now, but the jury is still out on what the %s will be.
Hope that if you have tested positive for the Hep C, virus that you considering getting treatment.  The new medications are by far the best that we have ever seen in eradicating this virus.  I urge you to consider treatment if you have not done so already.
Best Wishes
...Kim..