Tag Archives: HCV Health Tips

Veterans’ high rates of HCV much worse than previously thought

Results from a large VA study provides evidence of severe HCV outbreaks in U. S. boomer veterans who visited the VA at least once in 2011.  They looked at lab results going back about 12 years. This table show the prevalence of … Continue reading

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VA INFO ON INTERFERON SIDE EFFECTS

Amazing. VA is actually telling us what the rat piss they shot into us does. All of you filing for residuals of Interferon/ HCV can use this a prima facie evidence, seconded by the ones who did it to you … Continue reading

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VAMC–PASS THE CRACK PIPE, PLEASE

Yeppers. Got it first hand from my VAMC Personal Care Physician (PCP), Rose M. Sessoms, M.D. that my liver “appears to be functioning well.” We have to wonder if Rose got her doctor’s license in some third world country that … Continue reading

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$180,000.00 LOTTO FOR LIFE

Today was THE DAY. The ARNP popped blue smoke and arms out to line up a landing. Solvaldi time is one month to guns hot. I’ve been waiting for this for seven years so it’s a milestone in my life … Continue reading

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GILEAD TO PAIR LEDISPASVIR WITH SOVALDI

This morning I read with great satisfaction that Gilead Sciences is proceeding with yet even more studies on Ledipasvir combined with Sovaldi (Sofosbuvir), with and without Ribavirin. What is noticeably absent is the mention of the dreaded bug juice- Interferon. … Continue reading

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HCV TRANSMISSION VIA SEX

Finally, someone put this to rest with a concise study. Yes it is possible. In many cases it was the only known risk factor. The fact that VA lists it as a risk in the Risk Factors Questionnaire is a … Continue reading

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HCV COURSE KNOWLEDGE

Here’s a great article to keep us to speed on what medical science has uncovered as secondaries to HCV.

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AND EVEN MORE GOOD NEWS

Mark, or Hepsick as he has used as a handle over the years, has had one of the hardest, nastiest examples of a VA HCV claim. Imagine the worst case of circumstances–then multiply it by two 48 week courses of … Continue reading

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More good news

I want to share the good news that my husband’s disability claim has been largely successful–although he was denied HCV.  We received a decision in under one year and the information found on this website was critical. Nonetheless, there is … Continue reading

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AMC–JUSTICE DELAYED IS NOT JUSTICE DENIED

I have thought long and hard about how I would write about this event.  What the hey? I had twenty years to contemplate it. I was alerted, as many of you have observed on your own claims, to the imminent … Continue reading

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