It was a false positive and the retest reads target not detected = UND. Thanks all for your support!
Yes, I've been in a trial for 4 weeks with Gilead's Sofosbuvir & Ledipasvir (GS-7977 & GS-5885).
I went UND in 14 days. Yay! No interferon! No sides!
Just as one does not know much about HCV until they get it and learn about it on this site, one generally does not know much about trials until they seriously look for one or start one.
Both have many misconceptions. HCV has the stigma that it is most likely from recreational drug use, and trials have the stigma that they are all crap shoots and one might get a placebo and not even know if they are being treated.
There are different types of trials and can be phase 1, 2, 3 etc. As pointed out by others, my trial was comparing the new drugs with the FDA approved. As it turns out we probably won't see many people treating with interferon in 2014 as the all oral with 7977 is more effective and with less side effects. Yay!!...for those who can wait.
If you go to Faith's profile you will see that she was in a study and was in the SOC arm of the study.
Hi hepcat, faith was in a gilead trial that included a SOC arm, not uncommon
Why are they doing a trial on FDA approved drugs? Trials are used for collecting data to submit to FDA for approval. I'm throughly confused.