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Epclusa only 8 weeks?

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Hi,

I'm in a bit of a pickle. I'm genotype 2, and 5.5 weeks through treatment with epclusa. I had a blood test at 3 weeks 5 days, and came back detected <15.

My problem is I've been really ill the last year, and I am still really fatigued on this drug, but I need to be able to perform very soon so I was hoping to have a truncated treatment length of only 8 weeks.

Now I'm freaking out a bit as I was detected at 4 weeks, I don't know how large the risk is.

I'm thinking doing 8 weeks epclusa. then one week mavyret, so 9 weeks total. I know it would be only another 3 weeks for the standard treatment, but I seriously need to be functioning well mentally by the 20th April.

I have mavyret to hand as well which I got later from my countries health care service, which is only 8 weeks. They havent offered to test me in the future with covid going on so I would have to go privately and I find it confusing to know if the test differentiates when <15.

When looking online I can't seem to see any resarch done on epclusa for 8 weeks apart from genotype 3 opoid addicts, and epclusa with another drug for 8 weeks, which had 92% and 95% cure rates respectively.

I know mavyret has more mg of drug so I;m not sure if its more potent in a short time frame, or the makers just did the trials better than epclusa for 8 weeks but they would have similar efficacy over that period.

Any thoughts would be helpful.

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nadiaxx

The drug they are giving you will kill the hep c just go through them it’s hard and tough you are fatigued because your liver is fighting try changing your diet

Fruit and lots of veg

Vit c

Iron spinach green peas all this helps change of lifestyle

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Angel1997

Hmm I also had genotype 2. My treatment was epclusa for 12 weeks. I went to my gp and asked for a quanative test on week 9 or 10 I think? I understand COMPLETELY how you are feeling. I too had to preform and to be honest, it was hard. I decided to take it at night. But still, it seems to be hard on my body. I find out in June if it did the trick. I’m not sure why 8 weeks but.. they gave me 12.

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biowarrior in reply toAngel1997

thanks for your reply--so you took it for 12 weeks. was it undetected at week 9?? I think im going to risk 9 weeks as I literally cant do any work on it and if I dont complete this project I am a bit screwed

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