Re:
Hep C Geno Strains
June 3,
2003
Hi
I live in Australia and was given a book by Don Colbert with your web site address in it. It has been very informative. While I have only read a few messages on your board, no-one mentions the geno types. It has been my experience here in Australia that is how we clarify the degree of recovery. I hava tried interferon combination treatmenet although it severely attack me instead of the virus so they had to take me off it.
Apparently geno type 1b which I have I have been told is the most agressive. My liver has entered into cirrohis sometime in the last 6 months with my liver too stressed to have anymore biopsies at the moment. While my ALTs are 200 and rising, my platlets are dropping to 80's. I notice that you talk about ALT's in millions, so perhaps we have a different system here.
What are results are you aware of with geno type 1b?
Thanks your site is informative and I shall look for your book here. Not that I don't want to use your service but the dollar makes it twice the price plus postage.
MAy God bless you all
G.
Hi G:
Interferon's do not work, especially on 1b.
They are not the most aggressive, 1a and 1b are just not received well with interferon's.
IU/ml is the measurement the US uses for viral load also copies.
Copies are higher.
I would read my books and do what I did because people who do have the best results. We ship to Australia all the time. It is a bit expensive but well worth it.
You should have a Ferritin test. This test measures the amount of iron in the liver. If it is high and it is in 25% of males and 8 % of females, it will all by itself drive up the AST and ALT and the viral load.
A few phlebotomies will lower it and the numbers.
You do not need biopsies, a ultra sound and a blood test is non invasive and can give one the same results.
I will attach what I did.
I am here for questions.
In good health
Lloyd