This is GREAT news!!! : ) You have helped me numerous times, with expert advice, and more than that, you have helped me to feel grounded, via your participation in this website.
If you ever need anything, I just want you to know that I am always
right here for you also~
hector, i'm so very happy for you. no one here deserves this chance more than you. you're such an inspiration and a wealth of knowledge for all of us. good luck with your trial. may your sx be mild and your outcome be SVR. best wishes. belle
You know, I've seen plenty of sad things on this board, but I cannot think of anything right now to me that seems like better news than this thread. I'm just so happy for you.
Happy that you may soon be cleared of the virus and happy to see you ARE getting a new liver.
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"I will be 1 of only 40 people in the U.S., Europe and New Zealand in this trial.
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.......and with due respect..... you aren't "1 in 40". I think it's more like one in a million.
What a wonderful bit of news. Crossing fingers till then.
willy
From the studies I've seen with GS-7977 and ribavirin, everyone including us previous "null-responders" are UND by week 4. The problem has been when some groups of patients stop treatment, they relapse.
The nice thing about this study is there is NO STOPPING of treatment. (!) We take the treatment drugs up to and on the day of our liver transplant. We will have a viral load test at the time of transplant. Take the old cancerous liver out and put in a new shiny nutmeg brown donor liver. Put us back together and hope that since we where UND at the time of transplant, there will be no hepatitis C virus in our blood stream to reinfect our new liver.
I will also be donating samples of my explanted liver to study its genetics, the amount of GS-7977 in my liver, any hepatitis C in my liver and to look for any changes in the blood cells of my liver. They can have it. All I ask is for a photo of my 60 year old liver after they take it out.
They will also store my blood samples for future testing from all my pre and post blood draws.
The proof will be in the pudding. Or should I say my post transplant viral load tests at weeks 1,2,3,4,8,12,24,48.
This is by far my best chance to clear my hepatitis C after living with it for the last 43 years. Long enough in my opinion.
Hector
Wow! Haven't been on for a bit and am so glad I came on to get this incredible news. The word on the street is that the 7977 has minimal sides, so you get to kick the virus to the curb without having to endure the current triple therapy side effects. Things are really looking up for you, Hector. Very much looking forward to your first UND result, then the successful transplant news. Congratulations, sir.
tears in my eyes! Smile on my face!