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liver pain and duodenim ulcers
by amanda, Jan 28, 2001 12:00AM
I contracted Hepatitis C (genotype 2) from the use of dirty needles when I was about 20. I have not used drugs for a very long time (about 4 or 5 years). It has been about 6 years now since the actual time I contracted the disease and I have undergone Alpha interferon and Ribaviran treatment that has seemed to have worked. There was no sign of the disease after the 6 month treatment. After that treatment I started experiencing pain in my upper right liver area under my breast bone. I went in to have an upper G.I. and now have a duodenum ulcer. My Dr. gave me protonix to help the ulcer. I have not yet taken the medicine because I have to stop smoking to do so, and it has been very hard for me to quit. Is my pain around where my liver would be from the ulcer (is that where my duodenim is)? or could it be that my hepatitis is back? Is this common? Do patients often complain about dull pain in that area?
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I have not yet contacted my doctor, but a friend of my thought that perhaphs this discomfort was casued by extra blood flow to the site in order for the liver to heal itself, and reverse the scar tissue. like a muscle ripping, and the soreness you feel as it repatches itself.
this is not, however, a relyable prediction by any means.
Im looking for more answers.
I have not yet contacted my doctor, but a friend of my thought that perhaphs this discomfort was casued by extra blood flow to the site in order for the liver to heal itself, and reverse the scar tissue. like a muscle ripping, and the soreness you feel as it repatches itself.
this is not, however, a relyable prediction by any means.
Im looking for more answers.