Decreased Total Antioxidant Capacity and Increased
Oxidative Stress and Serum Ferritin Levels in Untreated
Chronic Hepatitis C Patients
Isaias Dichi1, Danielle Venturini2,3, Andrea Colado Simão2,

They found those that have elevated iron in their livers died
of cardiac failure.
Marked iron in liver explants in the absence of major hereditary
hemochromatosis gene defects: a risk factor for cardiac failure.

Please avoid phony French doctor who claims he can cure all diseases
with plant stem cell therapy. He is promoting himself widely on the
web and at national alternative medicine conferences.
This letter was sent to you because of concern about your professional

I stumbled upon this group around 10:00 pm.  It is now 2:06 am...I
have been reading a lot of posts and finding a lot of helpful
information and some insight about what I am about to endure.  I am
going to start the 24 week treatment (Type 3).  Side note...I haven't

Hi group.
I'm about to do Tx #8 of a 24 week course, genotype 2b. Just got me 4 week
VL result back and it was UND. I'm really pumped now. I wish I could do the
last 17 Tx all at once and get this over with. Good news though for me! What

Hi everyone,  hey, it's been 2 months now since I stopped treatment.
I had a hell of a time going thru hydrocodone withdrawals, and since
then, I've had a lot of trouble sleeping because I get these muscle
contractions, or spasms, mostly in my left leg and back.  At first, I

You know, now that the life is coming back into me, I'm starting to
feel things again, not the nauxea and metal taste of food or the
morning lung.  Nice stuff, like the feel of the sun on my skin, the
warm spring breeze, music sounds good again, i have been playing a lot

Efficacy and safety of addition of minor bloodletting (petit
phlebotomy)
in hepatitis C virus-infected patients receiving regular glycyrrhizin
injections.

Silybin, a component of sylimarin, exerts anti-inflammatory
and anti-fibrogenic effects on human hepatic stellate cells
Marco Trappoliere1, Alessandra Caligiuri1, Monika Schmid1,
Cristiana Bertolani1, Paola Failli2, Francesco Vizzutti1,

Reading the posts on sleep (or lack thereof) with hep c and also after
treatment, I feel right at home.
I have a bitch of a time getting to sleep at night, toss and turn and, when
I do get to sleep, wake up every few hours. I've tried over-the-counter

Friends,
 The big Pharmas appear to be racing to get their combination therapies out
on the market.  Will this race to package Telaprevir delay the release after
approval until after Vertex perfects their own type of combination therapy?

My Doc prescribed Bactrim DS for a Urinary Tract Infection.Is this a safe
medication for people with advanced liver disease? It seems like I remember
reading that sulfa drugs should be avoided.
Thanks,

Had my first Tx last Thursday as I'd said. Not too bad, expected worse. Lots
of headaches, sweats the first night after my shot, a little nausea, really
sore back every morning. Is the injection site supposed to still be sore 4
days later? Only 23 more to go.