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Hepatitis C and the Immune System
Image courtesy of posterize/FreeDigitalPhotos.net Just wanted to clear something up. Although people feel run down on treatment, like their immune systems are barely on reserves, interferon actually...
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The Hepatitis C Lottery
Image courtesy of graur razvan ionut/FreeDigitalPhotos.net I feel like I won the lottery. Stanford called me a few weeks ago, informing me that a space opened up in a hepatitis C clinical trial, and if...
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Hepatitis C: Clinical Trial or Trail?
Image courtesy of franky 242/FreeDigitalPhotos.net On Sunday, I drove to Palo Alto to begin my clinical trial the next day. Traffic was horrendous, and my resolve to look at this as a pilgrimage was...
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Regaining My Perspective as a Hepatitis C Patient
Image courtesy of basketman/FreeDigitalPhotos.net It is remarkable to me that for all my hepatitis C experience, when I am the patient I can be as helpless and vulnerable as anyone else can. I don’t...
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Hepatitis C Clinical Trial: One Down, Eleven Weeks to Go
Image courtesy of Vichaya Kiatying-Angsulee/FreeDigitalPhotos.net I just completed my first week of the Gilead hepatitis C study. I am tolerating the study drugs (sofosbuvir, GS-5885, and ribavirin)...
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Gratefully Living with Hepatitis C
Image courtesy of Photokanok/FreeDigitalPhotos.net For those who are reading this blog for the first time, on February 25th I entered into a 12-week clinical trial using triple test drugs sofosbuvir...
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Hepatitis C Treatment, Three Weeks In
Image courtesy of Anusorn P nachol/FreeDigitalPhotos.net I have just finished my third week of treatment, although technically, a clinical trial isn’t treatment—it only becomes that after we know it...
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Adventures with Hepatitis C
Image courtesy of Ambro/FreeDigitalPhotos.net In my last post, I discussed the side effects I am having from my adventures as a a hepatitis C study patient, taking sofosbuvir (formerly GS-7997),...
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The Reality of Hepatitis C Treatment
Image courtesy of creativedoxfoto/FreeDigitalPhotos.net I just finished my second book, Hepatitis C Treatment One Step at a Time: Inspirational Readings and Practical Tips for Successful Hepatitis C...
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Snowshoeing Through Hepatitis C Treatment
A fact of treatment: some days are better than others are. A fact of life: all days alive beat the alternative. This week marks the completion of 4 weeks of hepatitis C treatment. If I had been doing...
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Healing Hepatitis C
Image courtesy of Marcus/FreeDigitalPhotos.net I am tempted to write an April Fool’s Day post, something outrageous and clearly foolish, but I’ve done enough clowning around this month. My April...
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Hepatitis C Week 4 Lab Results
Image courtesy of Grant Cochrane /FreeDigitalPhotos.net Although I am in my fifth week of a hepatitis C clinical trial, I just received my week 4 viral load—nondetectable. (For those who don’t know...
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Standing between Hepatitis C and Hope
Image courtesy of Stuart Miles/FreeDigitalPhotos.net Fear is static that prevents me from hearing myself. ~ Samuel Butler Twenty-five years ago, I acquired hepatitis C. I was a fearful person, and as...
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Hepatitis C Treatment: My Kingdom for Some Red Blood Cells
Image courtesy of imagerymajestic /FreeDigitalPhotos.net Look, I really don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re alive, you’ve got to flap your arms and legs, you’ve got to jump...
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Seven Secrets to Hepatitis C Treatment
Image courtesy of Grant Cochrane/FreeDigitalPhotos.net I tend to distrust articles and books that claim knowledge of secrets that will make something easier, solve a problem or unlock a mystery. One...
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Looking Good with Hepatitis C
Image courtesy of podpad/FreeDigitalPhotos.net Few words are more irritating to someone on hepatitis C treatment than, “You look good.” During this and past hepatitis C treatments, I cannot tell you...
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Twelve Things I Won’t Miss Now that Hepatitis C Treatment is Over
This week I completed my 3rd hepatitis C treatment. Since I was participating in an interferon-free clinical trial, this course wasn’t too bad. It was also short—only 12 weeks. However, I did have some...
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The trouble with the future is that is usually arrives before we’re ready for it. ~ Arnold H. Glasow ??? I have been in the hepatitis C field since 1997. One of the most common questions patients...
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Creative Hepatitis C Treatment
Creativity is not the finding of a thing, but the making something out of it after it is found. ~ James Russell Lowell In my last blog post, I discussed my concerns about the potential risks of...
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When Hepatitis C Treatment is Over
Image courtesy of sattva/FreeDigitalPhotos.net How much of human life is lost in waiting? ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson My third hepatitis C treatment is over, and everyone wants to know the results. I have...
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