Can you still drink if you have hepaitis C?

[PhilipJones]

Can you still drink alcohol if you have Hepatitis C?

[curiouslady1]

Can you still drink alcohol if you have Hepatitis C?
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I can.  My arm ain't broke.  

But I don't.

[OC]

My doctor said, drinking would be the equivalent of throwing gasoline on a fire.

peace

[his3707]

hahahah  love it. interesting read though,

[James10500]

This thread is from 2008.

[halbev]

I think it is like Russian roulette with a 6 shot revolver, and you put 6 shots in it, Out come not gonna be good

[selley87]

just think how awful you feel after a night of drinking why not try life with out it.  i have not quite succeeded i let stress be my trigger.  drinking does not make my life full of enjoyment i can say with out certaintity

[Force]

I like that one....lol

[springfever]

"Can u still drink alcohol if you have Hep c?"

we don't know.

[Rockerforlife]

CAN YOU STILL PLAY WITH FIRE IF YOUR SOAKED IN GASOLINE?

[Magnum]

No

Magnum

[Force]

I was watching a Video on you tube and the Doctor mention that drinking Alcohol when you have Hep C is like pouring Gasoline on a fire the virus thrives on it & duplicates like crazy immediately.

Have a toke and get some good munchies....lol

Don't kill yourself man!

[nygirl7]

"At last someone has had the courage to break the silence.  We are faced with an epidemic of alcoholic mice.  I see them staggering around the barn, unkempt and disheveled.  Its heartbreaking! "

The name of my new band ALCOHOLIC MICE (as well as the new gang I'm starting) - perfect.  You are the smarty pants who would realize exactly what I needed today!

[jonney4141]

i was told today by doctor that to drink would be my death

[sfwandwow]

u can drink but if u do u are adding gasoline to the fire.. DONT DRINK!!!

[rita3a]

NOPE!

[Rockerforlife]

I just seen a movie called sicko...its about the health care system in the USA...it makes me mad at the govt...they are a sick bunch.

[jmjm530]

I confess to a weakness for cheese cake. So yes, wine with cheese cake is very OK with me.Red wine, of course. BTW the French are thinner than us. Different theories on that but I think their food portions are smaller.

[Marcia2202]

A nice....  Délice de St. Cyr (triple cream raw milk 75% cheese), but I'll have to pass on the wine... I'm such a party pooper, but I don't drink... But the thought of it IS nice... And it's nice in Nice... I grew up around there, on the Cote d'Azur, in Biot between Antibes and Cannes

[jdwithhcv]

Just so you don't end up like those unfortunate mice!

[portann]

naa, fo me it's wine and cheese in Nice. It makes me slimmer to just think about it.

[Rockerforlife]

I meant to say............. who says ya cant have your cheesecake and  eat it  too?

[Rockerforlife]

The french eat lots of fatty foods and drink wine with everything and out live americians....who says ya cant have your cheesecake and it  too?

[Rockerforlife]

HOW bout a glass of wine with that cheese cake?

[jmjm530]

MB: he alcohol is still known as the greatest inducer of fibrosis for anyone with HCV. Current research states that regular alcohol consumption increase the rate at which fibrosis occurs tenfold.
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Perhaps you'd like to share that "current research" with us and define what you mean by "regular alcohol consumption"?

Everything that I've read shows that one or two drinks a day (women and men respetively) does not further fibrosis progression even if you have HCV. And speaking of fatty liver, my NP said that fatty liver progresses fibrosis faster than the virus itself.

So...who do you think will have a faster progression of fibrosis? The Hep C person who is at an ideal body weight and drinks a glass or two of wine per day OR the Hep C person who is overweight with fatty liver and abstains from alcohol?

With all the energy here of the anti-alcohol at all costs folks, it's a shame that some of that energy isn't spent crusading against medical obsesity which is usually defined as being just over 20 per cent of a person's ideal weight. Obsesity, it's like pouring whipped cream on a cheese cake :)

-- Jim