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Chronic Hbe negative HBV for 14 years.. Now raising its head?

(reposted..)

My hbe neg- hbv, has not been showing itself recently in LFT and HBVDNA numbers or u/s or F'scan: (ALT less than 35 for last 3-4 months-has remained between 19 and 44 in last 7-8 months. And hbvdna that was 28,500 cop/ml in July, is UND since September, 2012-checked twice).

However, the news is that:
a) my cholesterol numbers are getting bad. Total cholesterol is 5.5 against max limit of 5.2, LDL is 3.8 against max limit of 3.4, and HDL is 0.99 against min of 0.9.
b) Prothrombin time was 14 sec in Sep, 12 (lab limit 13). Now it is 15 sec. INR is 1.1.
c) Most importantly, kidneys: Creatinine has reached 114 umol/L (upper limit 124), and uric acid is 465 umol/L (limit 420).

This is a dilemma. If I try to control my cholesterol, that might make blood  thinner which will further increase Proth. time. Also how to manage RFT (Uric acid and creatinine)?
I am not taking any medicines etc now. Just green tea 1/day, and honey in warm water 1/day. I am a thin person, and have started walking 2-3 km a day recently.

So what advice do you have please? Does it have to be an antiviral now? with hbvdna und and ALT in and around 30s? Could that be even useful?

(I am thinking to re-start vit D: had stopped it earlier after taking for 2-3 weeks as i thought it is making my kidney function go down, but even after stopping it, the RFT values are still going slightly up instead of down. I am still going to monitor RFT, and calcium). One thing: they say stress can elevate chol. And I have been stressed lately, maybe that explains the cholesterol part.

Thank you very much.
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Thanks and I am on heptech protocol for one week by now. I plan to monitor by fibroscan as it is available in my country.
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Thanks for the advice. CoQ10 was once advised by you for helping my kidneys, but I am convinced now its better to avoid it for now.
  Well, so far my kidneys are borderline ok, maintaining creatinine around 1.2. I am trying to keep it there with baking soda (taking just a pinch in water daily, 6 days a week). Next few months will show the trend.

1. I think I cannot try fish oil because it thins the blood. Because my PTT had gone upto 15 sec, but I repeated (at a better lab) after 2 months and it showed 12.9 sec.
2. Heptech/fibroguard not avl here and I cannot afford either. :)
I will update my latest F/scan, U/S and bloodwork tonight or tomorrow, and discuss some alternatives I have in mind.

Grateful.
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they also prohibit use of salt nacl. to reduce bleeding in advance cases.
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never saw a human trial to prove such idiocy, my blood pressure is very normal...maybe the food and the vit d deficiency which make metabolic diseases are the problem

we are very lucky we have mediterranean diet in italy as part of our culture and very difficult to change which protects us so much more than the rest of the world, we just have vit d deficiency anyway here due to indoor life
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here docs strictly say to about soda as it has sodium which increses blood pressure in vessels and increases chances of bleeding.i m not very sure.
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definitely data about radiation in japan is not true, there has been many data hidden and it is worst than thought, even sea has been contaminated and this has been confirmed lately while it was hidden since today

i myself stopped coq10 totally after the radiation pollution there, it is not important at all for the liver or hbv infection
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i got a coq10 brand called Awardin plus from Werrick. I am unable to find where the CoQ10 in it was originally made. You advise to avoid CoQ10 from Japan. Any advise? How important is CoQ10?
Thanks.
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