I'm taking Truvada now for almost 2 years (Undetectable HBV DNA, e antigen still positive, lam resistance).
Can I switch to Baraclude? It will be easier for my budget since it cost way less coz' I'm planning on moving back home. I'm in the US.
Any possible resistance or virus breakthrough if I decided to switch therapy?
My question is, are there any specific lab values that represent ascites and if the “causes” of ascites specifically are getting better? I understand the cirrhosis is the cause but are there certain LAB values that represent or can be used to judge ascites and see if the TIPS will perhaps work again?
That's not an easy question to answer since reference ranges for thyroid lab tests are very flawed. TSH is a pituitary hormone, and as such is a screening test at best for asymptomatic individuals. Typically, individuals who are hyper have TSH less-than 0.3, and hypos have TSH greater-than 3.0. However there are esoteric thyroid problems that don't conform to that rule and can actually reverse it.
Yes, bleeding can cause a drop in CBC values and once the bleeding stops these values improve. Low triglycerides with normal or high cholesterol can be due to poor eating habits, hyperthyroidism, malabsorption syndromes (including Crohn’s and most likely cause in your case), as a side effect of certain drugs (like nicotinic acid, clofibrate), etc.
has anyone been prescribed Truvada? If so I would like to know how you are doing with it? and if it is helping your hepatitis b? I have stage 4 kidney disease. My hepitologist just prescribed this med. My labs were not good. He hopes to get the virus under control so I can possibly get a kidney transplant. This would be a kidney from a cadaver donator, someone who had hepatitis b. So I am about to begin my journey.
ll understand,well on my last post I told you I had started pep,I got the pep from San Fran general hospital on Xmas day,reason I went there is because they were the only place open,well they gave me a prescription for a couple days supply,told me to take 2 keletra twice daily and one truvada once daily,so yesterday.
sorry but normal alt values has been changed since years on european and US guidelines and of course on all studies, normal alt is 30 for men and 19 for women
studies on liver related deaths suggest even lower alt at 15 for both men and women but since diet on most western countries is rubbish such low values can t be used because most population has higher values due to chemicals in food and type of diet
as to problems with bones it is well known they are due to low vitamin d 25 oh levels whi
The main problem also is i took truvada as apart of my hiv treatment so if i decided to make hepatitis B pcr quantitative test maybe it becomes undetectable because of the seven months of truvada(i knew that truvada treat hepatitis B virus)
What can I do to know if I'm infected or not?
Is there any test i can do to know?
Please help me I'm hopeless because of anti hbs antibody of 3.1 or 5 miu/ml
I didn't remember i take any vaccine... From where did this result come from?
t tested for that. The values they gave were 1.19 igm and 0.16 igg. These results were taken from a blood test of some sort. From what I have been reading on some of the boards it seems that this test is unreliable. Is that so? What do these values mean? Why in the world would these people tell us she has herpes if that's not the case? Since these values are so low does that indicate a possible false positive? Or does it just mean that her exposure was too recent to tell?
Dr Sean
Sir,I had a unprotected sex with a sex worker due to condom break, i found it after sex over. Its almost 35 days ago. Just after exposure, i started Truvada once a day after approx. 6 hrs from exposure. On next i tracked sex worker for testing elisa hiv thats come back negetive. I completed 28 course of truvada. LFT,KFT are normal that done after 32 days of exposure, but CBC having high lavel lymphocytes 49.3% and low Eosinophils .90%.
I had very bad side effects like dizziness , nausea, vomiting and also stomach problems. Sometime, I couldn't wake up. I am so weak. By the way, I have Viread( Tenofovir ) 123 mg expired date 1.201,anyone who wants it I will post it. I didn't use it anymore so I can post it free. I also have Tenofovir 245 mg but it is expired 8.2013 so may be it is not good anymore. I used it both of the only 3 tabts each and I stopped.
Hello, I just got some lab results back. I found out I have Hep C back in 1999. Had a liver biopsy it wasn't too bad and have been tracking lab values since. I recently got these labs back and am wondering if anyone can tell me if I should be alarmed and what to do next. I am just switching from Military health care to Civilian Health care. I have ben feeling like total ****.
Genotype 1b
ast194
alt 274
HCV ab 34.
Yes there are issues that can complicate diagnosis, but with hypo symptoms and those test results for Free T3 and Free T4, it is pretty clear that your thyroid hormones are too low in their ranges. I say ranges, because I am assuming that the reference ranges shown for those tests would be similar to those I see quite often. The ranges are far too broad, since they were established erroneously and have not been corrected like done for TSH over 10 years ago.
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