My mother started the Pegasys/Ribavirin hepatitis C treatment 2 months
ago. She is 50 years, about 5'7  and weighted about 140lbs at the
start of the treatment. After starting the treatment, she completely
lost her appetite causing her to lose about 20 lbs in a span of 2

Anybody with liver damage sought their doctors advice about using
Niacin?

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Just got the results for about my 4th alt level test post treatment,
Its been about 5 months since treatment ended.
Current alt level: 22
Mr. Liver seems to be doing ok.

Just got my 4w post tx labs and they look promising, my ALAT is 0,37
(0,59 at w48) and all other values ar OK.
Next week i will get the results of the TaqMan Q HCV test of w48, it
got delayed because of misshap at lab so they had to retest my

Man, time is flying fast! I remember just recently the nurse showing
me how to self-administer Peg-Intron, and this past Friday I had the
12th shot...if everything is as expected (fingers crossed), I'm
half-way through it (with 3a genotype).

just responding to this part of your post:

So, not so long ago, I got some good advice about hemorrhoids.
Still got a question about what makes them swell and go back down.
For two weeks I've been taking the same drugs but I did just start
Epogen two weeks ago. Also my diet hasn't changed.

Researchers Isolate Genes That Battle Hepatitis C Virus
 HAIFA, ISRAEL -- July 17, 2007 -- Joint research by Dr. Leonid Brodsky, of
the Institute of Evolution of the University of Haifa, and Dr. Milton
Taylor, of Indiana University, led to the discovery of a mathematical method

Do you think this patient would have been cured .. IF .. they had
removed the iron .. FIRST .. without ever HAVING to do a marrow
transplantation .. ?
The second article shows .. in anemia .. BY doing JUST that they

I am hep C positive and undergoing The pegasys and ribavirin 48 week
treatment program.
Does anyone know what the dangers are if I just stop taking the drug?

Hello motley crew.  Here's another large study of long term SVR
persistence after 5-7 years: 93% still cured. Good news imo.
kj
"A total of 1641 patients recruited from eight European centres in

I just finished my 6-month follow up, and still no lab results.
Apparently, SP's lab is having QA problems (reporting higher VL than
actual or where there isn't any).  So, I still don't know my status
from the 1 mo or 2 mo tests.

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Nippon Shokakibyo Gakkai Zasshi. 2007 Jul;104(7):1044-50. Links
[Utility of a little phlebotomy intermittently just before intravenous
injection of glycyrrhizin for patients with chronic hepatitis C]
[Article in Japanese]