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Danger to give a hep c patient iron supplements?
Hello
I am new to this forum and have a question: a doctor i saw a month ago who knows i have had hep c for 30 years told me after doing a complete blood work that i have low red blood cell count and told me this means i have anemia and he then prescribed iron supplements to take twice a day.
I saw a new doctor yesterday and he told me this was very dangerous for me to be taking iron supplements that anyone with chronic hep c should never take iron supplements.
Now i am very confused. This new doctor was very concerned and took new blood test this morning and i get the results back tomorrow.
The first doc told me that my blood work was fine except for minor liver enzyme elevation and the low red blood count.
This first doc did not schedule any follow up at all simply sent me on my way a month or so ago.
The new doc was shocked.
Anyone know which doc is right; was it dangerous as the new doc said that i was prescribed iron supplements?
I concerned as i dont know who to believe now.
Please any feedback would be most welcome.
Thanks so much!
fluugy
I am new to this forum and have a question: a doctor i saw a month ago who knows i have had hep c for 30 years told me after doing a complete blood work that i have low red blood cell count and told me this means i have anemia and he then prescribed iron supplements to take twice a day.
I saw a new doctor yesterday and he told me this was very dangerous for me to be taking iron supplements that anyone with chronic hep c should never take iron supplements.
Now i am very confused. This new doctor was very concerned and took new blood test this morning and i get the results back tomorrow.
The first doc told me that my blood work was fine except for minor liver enzyme elevation and the low red blood count.
This first doc did not schedule any follow up at all simply sent me on my way a month or so ago.
The new doc was shocked.
Anyone know which doc is right; was it dangerous as the new doc said that i was prescribed iron supplements?
I concerned as i dont know who to believe now.
Please any feedback would be most welcome.
Thanks so much!
fluugy
Absolutely wonderful BoGal.
Like you, I started feling better two weeks into treatment, joint pain gone, chronic sinus and eye issues gone, spider veins and vericose veins going away, no more horrible bruising, bowel habits are normal, and yes my skin does look better. Like you said, this is not bragging this is a testament to the treatment we are on. I'll also admit I don't have it too bad with sides, but as crappy as I can feel at times, I feel so much better than I did before tx. UND at week 4 (pretty sure before that) and week 12; It has been so worth it.
Like you, I started feling better two weeks into treatment, joint pain gone, chronic sinus and eye issues gone, spider veins and vericose veins going away, no more horrible bruising, bowel habits are normal, and yes my skin does look better. Like you said, this is not bragging this is a testament to the treatment we are on. I'll also admit I don't have it too bad with sides, but as crappy as I can feel at times, I feel so much better than I did before tx. UND at week 4 (pretty sure before that) and week 12; It has been so worth it.
I believe there is a lovely alternative medicine thread o medhelp.
When you find that we are cured, and you still are not, we will welcome you back with open arms. If it were that easy my friend, do you think we'd have done this? If I had cancer I wouldnt take vitamin c.
I hope you get it before it's too late get you biopsy
When you find that we are cured, and you still are not, we will welcome you back with open arms. If it were that easy my friend, do you think we'd have done this? If I had cancer I wouldnt take vitamin c.
I hope you get it before it's too late get you biopsy
Oh whoops, correction: my yellow rubber bracelt says "Hep C can be cured!"
I got it from my Home Support Group, where a bunch of people attendm, and some have been cured for years and years now, woot
I got it from my Home Support Group, where a bunch of people attendm, and some have been cured for years and years now, woot
Well, all I can say is that 16 weeks into Pegasys, (weekly shot) Ribavirin, 1200 a day, and Victrelis, 12 capsules a day, and I am feeling pretty darn good : )
Before treatment, my liver enzymes AST/ALT, were at 400/500.
Four weeks into Treatment, and they were in the normal range, for the first time in 20 years!!
My digestion is better than it has been, in years, all my constipation is gone, and I feel like a Spring Chicken! I havent had even one loose bowel, since I've been on Tx.
I have to also admit, my hair also, is quite luxuriant. I stopped dying it, and guess what, my natural color (silver at the temples, mixed with copper brown, looks so much better than those awful box colors I had been dyingi it (like mahogany, and spaghetti red) I am also seeing NO hair coming outinthe shower, after washing my hair (once weekly) I used to see tons of hair in there, before Tx, after I dyed it.
I dont know if it is the extra water I'm drinking, or the fact that my Viral Load is Undectable, and has been, for three months, but the skin on my face also looks MUCH younnger, than it used to!
I am not bragging about these things, to make my other friends on here feel bad, because I know so many on here do suffer from Hair loss symptoms, and worse,. The reason I am testifying to my own health, during my Tx (and I am about to turn 50 yrs old) is to give others out here HOPE!
YES...there IS a CURE for Hep C!!! And many of us, dont suffer from too many bad side effects. We just dont post about it, because we want to be supportive of those who are suffering.
Today I am wearing my yellow rubber bracelet that says in big proud red letters, "There is a cure for Hep C"
Before treatment, my liver enzymes AST/ALT, were at 400/500.
Four weeks into Treatment, and they were in the normal range, for the first time in 20 years!!
My digestion is better than it has been, in years, all my constipation is gone, and I feel like a Spring Chicken! I havent had even one loose bowel, since I've been on Tx.
I have to also admit, my hair also, is quite luxuriant. I stopped dying it, and guess what, my natural color (silver at the temples, mixed with copper brown, looks so much better than those awful box colors I had been dyingi it (like mahogany, and spaghetti red) I am also seeing NO hair coming outinthe shower, after washing my hair (once weekly) I used to see tons of hair in there, before Tx, after I dyed it.
I dont know if it is the extra water I'm drinking, or the fact that my Viral Load is Undectable, and has been, for three months, but the skin on my face also looks MUCH younnger, than it used to!
I am not bragging about these things, to make my other friends on here feel bad, because I know so many on here do suffer from Hair loss symptoms, and worse,. The reason I am testifying to my own health, during my Tx (and I am about to turn 50 yrs old) is to give others out here HOPE!
YES...there IS a CURE for Hep C!!! And many of us, dont suffer from too many bad side effects. We just dont post about it, because we want to be supportive of those who are suffering.
Today I am wearing my yellow rubber bracelet that says in big proud red letters, "There is a cure for Hep C"
When I was diagnosed, like you I was so scared by the idea of taking these horrible drugs, that I didn't do anything for months and months.
To make a long story short, I finally did the tx, relapsed and had a liver transplant.
Hep C can kill you. It almost killed me. No Chinese medicine will cure you of hep C. Believe me. I was diagnosed in Asia.
They didn't pretend there was a better treatment.
Finally post transplant I did interferon treatment and I am now hep C free.
What you really need is help for your anger and anxiety.
Calm your mind, so you can think clearly.
To make a long story short, I finally did the tx, relapsed and had a liver transplant.
Hep C can kill you. It almost killed me. No Chinese medicine will cure you of hep C. Believe me. I was diagnosed in Asia.
They didn't pretend there was a better treatment.
Finally post transplant I did interferon treatment and I am now hep C free.
What you really need is help for your anger and anxiety.
Calm your mind, so you can think clearly.
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