High cholesterol after treatment

[jacksb0923]

I always had very low cholesterol. After successful treAtment, my cholesterol went to higher than normal-not awful, but enough thAt my dr is putting me on low dose chol
My hep dr. told me that sometimes with an unhealthy liver, it can be low and now that my liver is getting better, it can become higher.. I had the beginning of cirrhosis
    Barb

[alagirl]

mine went up during and after tx because I had an illicit relationship with these two guys... Ben and Jerry?  two, three, sometimes four times a day... BOTH of them.  I was insatiable.

I gained sixty pounds.  DURING tx if you can imagine.  You know.  When everyone else was LOSING weight?  Wait, that's wrong.  Seventy lbs.  God.  The shame.  Ok.  Anyway... But I've finally lost all but fifteen lbs of it and my cholesterol is normal again.  It took forever.  

I did try to go on a statin for a little while following tx though and apparently I can't take statins.  It made me really very sick.  Dizzy, nauseous, it was horrible.  My liver enzymes also shot way up.  So far up in fact that in combo with how awful I was feeling I became irrationally terrified that the virus had returned (because I was feeling as sick as I had felt in the acute phase) before I discovered that it was the statin medication.  The doctor said that some people have seriously bad reactions to statins and absolutely can't take them.  He also said (a bit evilly I thought) that this means that I have to be especially careful about my diet and keeping my cholesterol down, etc since my family risk of heart disease is so high and I will never be able to rely on statins in the future.  Anyway, it scared me straight and that's really what kickstarted my weightloss and got me back towards my normal weight again, the fact that I didn't have statins as a fallback position.

[jacksb0923]

Thank you all. I  can't remember because i left it at home and will start it when I get home from our cottage. It is a generic and begins with a c I think. My hep doc was the one who had me in the vertex trial and explained this to me. My primary dr had me wait and see if I could control it with diet and ex, but it did t change much. My mother,aunt and cousin all take med. My total was 225 and 211, and my bad chol was not good. My good chol was okay( can't remember the numbers today). Glad I became SVR and so be it if I have to take a little pill!

[nygirl7]

It's exactly what happened to me as well and I always had a perfect nice low cholesterol.  Unfortunately as hard as I try to explain to my new GP he doesn't seem to get that it is partly due to my liver (and probably party heredity and not being so young anymore).

If you google up bad cholesterol it will pop right up as one of the reasons.

I'm trying to moderate it with diet - you have to be careful because I know from the tv commercials that some of the meds used for cholesterol are processed in the liver therefore - we cannot take them.

[portann]

Absolutely I've heard of this!  And it happened to me, too. :(

This is what Hepatitis Researcher ( HR) said way back in 2006:

"It is well known that HCV itself lowers Cholesterol by an unknown molecular

mechanism and that SVRs typically have a substantial rise in Chol levels following TX

because the virus is gone."

http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Hepatitis-C/HR-need-opinion-on-cholesterol/show/95657

And here are a couple of recent studies:

"In the SVR group, TC and LDL-C levels increased quickly after the end of the treatment

and were higher than those before treatment. On the other hand, TC and LDL-C levels

returned to pretreatment levels in the non-SVR group and were significantly lower than

in the SVR group."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19054155
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"Hepatitis C is associated with decreased cholesterol and LDL levels," the study

authors stated. "This hypolipidemia resolves with successful hepatitis C treatment but

persists in non-responders."

"A significant portion of successfully treated patients experience LDL and cholesterol

rebound to levels associated with increased coronary disease risk," they

concluded. "We suggest that serum lipid levels should be assessed in follow-up among

patients undergoing successful antiviral therapy, as clearance may reveal some

patients with previously unappreciated coronary risk."

http://www.hivandhepatitis.com/hep_c/news/2009/100909_a.html


So what med did your doc put you on?

Susan

[JennyPenny2009]

Yes, I've heard of this. Cholesterol is made in the liver. When it is not functioning properly there is less cholesterol maxde. Your doc is right.

[jacksb0923]

Oooops. My question is has anyone heard of this? Thank you