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when can i drink again?
I was a healthy hep b carrier before i started drinking. now i have chronic active hep b. i am in the process of getting a specialist. can anyone tell me what to expect as far as test and what treatments will be given. i would also like to know if i will ever be able to drink again? thanks.
Love you Scott, but you also have a sick fascination with always having the last word.Heh. Heh. Heh.
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I was always under the impression that once you were SVR and had made it one year without relapse, that drinking in moderation was 'ok'.
This is wrong ?
This is wrong ?
Drinkers do not always drink, some overcome the addiction through perserverence and some help.
You certainly have my permission - but I've always had sort of a morbid fascination in watching what people do to themselves.
When can you drink again?
The answer is never. I know you probably don't want to hear that but it is true.
The answer is never. I know you probably don't want to hear that but it is true.
I too am active Hep B and have just completed week 9 of 48 TX with the pelygated interferon alpha 2-B. For me, the last nine weeks have been difficult with fatigue, headaches, etc... However, as i see it, its worth the SX to hopefully rid myself of this disease. I have been able to keep up with my job but my free time is primarily slept away!
I do not anticipate ever again being able to "drink", never was a big drinker anyway, but do hope that if the TX's work, I might someday be able to again have a glass of wine with dinner or a cold beer over a pizza. Time will tell, but first off we both need to do whatever it takes to keep this disease from further damaging our livers!!! Get to a Specialist and take it from there!
I do not anticipate ever again being able to "drink", never was a big drinker anyway, but do hope that if the TX's work, I might someday be able to again have a glass of wine with dinner or a cold beer over a pizza. Time will tell, but first off we both need to do whatever it takes to keep this disease from further damaging our livers!!! Get to a Specialist and take it from there!
I live in wine country and love wine. I may very well never drink again. So what? Change is the only constant in life.
How are you doing? Change is the only constant. Have you ever read 'Who moved my Cheese?'
Hope your feeling ok these days and the holidays weren't too much for you.
All the best
Bug
Hope your feeling ok these days and the holidays weren't too much for you.
All the best
Bug
Don't understand why anyone would want to drink alcohol again? I want the healthiest liver possible and keep it that way.
Sorry to hear about your disease. I have had hepc for 30+ years and made the commitment to treat it this year. I really liked to have a glass of wine at night and cold beer with Mexican food, but I like time with family and friends more. I just heard of a friend of my brother's who died Sunday from hepatitis. He had never given up drinking or drugs.
Once I quit drinking, I realized it wasn't as important to me as I thought. I think when I worried about not being able to drink, it was like denial that I was sick or would have to alter my lifestyle. I hope you get the answer you are looking for, but there are many different opinions on the whole drinking issue. Your dr. can give you advice on the subject, but I had one dr tell me I could drink "carefullly", whatever that means. I use to make jokes about it all the time.
Good Luck with your journey.
Once I quit drinking, I realized it wasn't as important to me as I thought. I think when I worried about not being able to drink, it was like denial that I was sick or would have to alter my lifestyle. I hope you get the answer you are looking for, but there are many different opinions on the whole drinking issue. Your dr. can give you advice on the subject, but I had one dr tell me I could drink "carefullly", whatever that means. I use to make jokes about it all the time.
Good Luck with your journey.
Seems like I read 4 years after sustained viral responce (SVR),can't say where or written by who though. I would not advise it though.
It is not the end of the world to not drink. I was not an acoholic but liked to be a cheap date when going out to dinner or having friends over. Now I do not drink at all and do not miss it either. My X-Father inlaw was just found dead in a Motel room from alcohol poisening. Geesh I never new the man drank.
I am HCV not B, but you can look at your doctor ordering a biopsy (BX). Not a bad ordeal. More trouble to lie on your side afterwards for 2 hours than the procedure it's self. No pain at all.
You need not to worry less about the drinking and more about your life span.
Side effects (SX) vary from mild to wild and some have to quit. Nausia, headaches, skin rashes, thinning hair, weakness, insomnia, weight loss, joint pain, on and on.
I had weakness, depression, thinning hair, insomnia, and a little sking disorder but could work as a mechanical technician.
God Luck.
It is not the end of the world to not drink. I was not an acoholic but liked to be a cheap date when going out to dinner or having friends over. Now I do not drink at all and do not miss it either. My X-Father inlaw was just found dead in a Motel room from alcohol poisening. Geesh I never new the man drank.
I am HCV not B, but you can look at your doctor ordering a biopsy (BX). Not a bad ordeal. More trouble to lie on your side afterwards for 2 hours than the procedure it's self. No pain at all.
You need not to worry less about the drinking and more about your life span.
Side effects (SX) vary from mild to wild and some have to quit. Nausia, headaches, skin rashes, thinning hair, weakness, insomnia, weight loss, joint pain, on and on.
I had weakness, depression, thinning hair, insomnia, and a little sking disorder but could work as a mechanical technician.
God Luck.
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