LIVER-SAFE PAIN MEDICATION?

[worried A LOT]

RECENTLY DIAGNOSED W/ HEP C AND WAITING (5 WKS) FOR SPECIALIST APPT.  HAVING CHRONIC ACHE AND SOME PAIN. HAVING THE ACHE/PAIN IN AREA ABOUT 1-2 INCHES BELOW WAISTLINE FROM RIGHT SIDE ACROSS TO THE LEFT SIDE OF AREA BELOW WAISTLINE (ALTHOUGH MOSTLY ON RIGHT SIDE).  PAIN IS NOT USUALLY BAD BUT CONSTANT.  CALLED THE SPECIALIST TO SEE WHAT I COULD TAKE AND WAS TOLD THAT SINCE HE HAS YET TO SEE ME AS A PT. HE CANNOT TREAT THE PAIN.  THEY RECCOMENDED TYLENOL "BUT NOT EVERY DAY".  I WILL CALL MY REGULAR M.D. BUT DON'T TRUST HIM TO ORDER THE BEST FOR MY LIVER.  I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHAT IS TYPICALLY USED FOR PEOPLE WITH LIVER/PAIN PROBLEMS BEFORE I CALL MY REGULAR DR.
THANKS!!!
VICKI

[TazNTwo]

I was diagnosed with Hep C about 10 years ago.  Was told I have liver damage from it that took 20 years in the making.  At the time of my diagnosis, I felt fine - thought they were all a bunch of quacks.  Well, afterr being hospitalized like 1/2 dozen times, put in a 2-week coma. I've come out the other end, not great, but still kicking.  I'm supposedly to 'fragile' to undergo treatment for Hep C.  As a result, I now have severe Rheum Arthritis.  Don't let anyone tell you different, Advil, Tylenol or any NSAID is damaging to your liver.  Since in the beginning I kept taking Advil cuz it works great for me, I was put on Nexium to prevent stomach ulcers.  But my doctor, who I trust with my life (& believe me I don't trust doctors) goes ballastic if he hears I'm taking Advil so I've stopped..  You've got a tough road ahead.  If there's anyway you can be treated for Hep C - do it.  I know people who have and are perfectly healthy now while I'm waiting for the next catastrophe.

[TRISH3221958]

YOU R SO RITE...I ALWAYS CONTACT MY PHARMACY FOR ANY MEDICATIONS...DEM DRS. DONT REALLY KNOW TOO MUCH WHEN IT COMES TO MEDS..JUST WRITE A PRESCRIPTION N  U IF U HAVE TROUBLES...COME BACK AND SEE ME...

[furful]

Pain medications , no matter what  the cause of the pain,  such as Tylenol or ibuprofen are all bad for the liver. Opiates are not bad for the liver.It's baffling. Many methadone treated patients have Hep-c . Methadone is not harmful to the liver, and serves as a good ,yet addictive , pain killer.

[hepcfree72164]

Both should not be taken. I went through all experimental interferons and peg intron worked. I have tested neg to hep c for over ten yrs. I still do not take over the counter pain meds. On rare rare occasions I will take a goody powder. But very rarely.
***@**** hep c free

[goldie1957]

You would do best with an extended release medication such as opana...This was discussed with the doctors on the transplant team when my husband was on transplant   list .They told him not to go off the medication either, as it could make the virus worse.Thet told us anyone wth hep c should not change any thing with their meds and many Dr's don't know this and they take the person off meds., causing the viral load to jump higher and virus to become very active.I not knowing this, I went off my medication( weaning off thinking I am helping better my disease!...my viral)Instead my viral load jumped up to 1,400.000 from 850,000! I could not understand why I was getting sicker, rather then better.Just know there is a misconception that liver patients are not to have medication.Transplant unit in PA says just" no tylenol !) and the purest medications possible.which is usually the medications most docs do not want to put a person on.!

[Xyerye]

My husband is a 23-year liver transplant patient with hepc and arthritis. He has a lot of pain all the time and I'm no longer sure what to give him. His primary prescribed Tramadol, which does nothing. The pharmacist said he could take Ibuprofen not Tylenol. But from reading the comments above, I'm not sure which is safest.