poor dieting due to treatments

Hello everybody,
i'm only new to this forum and find it GREAT, one can really learn alot from here.  I'm assuming the majority of you are from America, well I am from Australia. to the point, ive had hep for like 15years now geno 1A,with a PCR reading of 269,000. on meds {combo of 1200mg of RIB a day, and that peg interferon alfa 2A "360mcg/1ml"),for the first 12weeks, because this is a newer treatment they have here in Australia... u need to be lucky that the puter picks u for it. I was UND 12 weeks down the track, now im back down to the normal shots(180mcg/0.05ml) but the same dose or RIB. question is, my diet really sucks, i eat but so i dont get sick, what vitamins would help my liver, cause i know a good diet is helpful??

good luck with you all,
it's a bugger of a bug!

[can-do-man]

Hello and welcome, My doctor just has me take a Multivitamin with out iron. Sounds like they like to hit it hard at the start there. How did you do on double the peg?

[sfbaygirl]

Welcome!  Wow, that was (is) a lot of interferon (360).  How did it make you feel? I was supposed to squirt 15mg out of my 180 shot and  the doc said to take it all if I can handle it.

My diet isn't so good at the moment either. I eat lots of Loard's strawberry ice cream and am becoming addicted to lime fruit bars. I can eat 5 at a time. I know this isn't good, but it makes me feel good and not much does these days. Things that are easy to make and get seem to make it in my mouth. My high Fiberone cereal w/ a bannana I can do in the morning. My great Hubby brings we lunch some days, if I can muster up the appetite. Sometimes I can eat dinner, sometimes not.

My friend came and made me gumbo (yumm) and spagetti and we used my food saver to seal and freeze a lot of meals. This will make it easy when I can't deal with cooking...these days it is almost never!  I am the chief cook and bottle washer, so it is nice to just be able to take a ready made meal out of the freezer on those days you just can't do it.

As for what is good, read recent threads on Iron and vitamins. They have good info.

[shadoww]

so for the lag in response, i'm getting the kids all geared up for school this morning... I had to take my first shot at the hospital infront of my nurse, so that he knew i was okay to go home then after and do it myself. As he predicted it would take like about 2 hrs before it hit me. After an hr i got home watching tv, then all of a sudden i felt sick, like i was tripping out within, like i had a cold, teps and all ur typical siders...this went on for about a good 4 shots, getting better and me becoming even more use to it as time went on.  After the 8th shot it was all good, but cept now, i am feeling highs and lows, but not on a daily basis.

ps thnx for the vitam tips, my so called family doc' appears to be experiencing technical menal difficulties when it comes to (a) his english (b) slow on advice
thx ya;ll

[shadoww]

oopa, i meant SORRY, no so*...oh the brain is really laggyyy too

[Alady1620]

I take vitamin E bc I hear it helps the interferon work.

There are some hep c nutrition threads in the forums at www.janis7hepc.com

[dyce]

Welcome, I basicly had the same on the sx's but on less of a shot dose. I try to eat a good variety of food , veggies , fruit, some meat, use to be a bigger meat and potato man before tx. Welcome.

[beamishboy]

yoo dyceman,hows it hangin...you keepin on?? be well buddy

[shadoww]

lemme start by thanking alady1620, very good site that. Thanx dyce for welcoming me too among others.... would someone be nice enough to explain to me what the abbre' TX stands for, and BX...
thnx

PS, I understand where ur coming from when u say u were a meat eater...I was eating like i didnt care and went over like being really over weight. when ur a sole parent dad looking after 2 teens and 2 kids i tended to go down to their levels and eat all the sweets and junk foods too....but not anymore those days are GONE, luckily none of the kids as a result of my ignorance to diet fell victim to obesety, nore over weight... i did though, but lost 25kilos' with at least 20 to go..
bless u all!

[fishdoc]

rocker can't help myself, forgive me... do your knuckles drag the ground? Are you particularly hairy?.... I think you just passed on the primate diet for the San Fransciscan Zoo...

[fishdoc]

I eat yogurt, cereal, ice cream, cottage cheese, and hard cheese.... nothing else is remotely palatable, not sure why, its not like pretx diet... but its what gets me going... 15 shots, and my weight has stayed stable (OK 2.5 lbs up since mom and uncle invaded)...

[sfbaygirl]

Your diet sounds like mine:) Ice cream for breakfast and dinner with the Riba, cereal, bananas, lime juice bars, cheese cake and tons of water, those seem to be my staples these days. I NEVER ate sweets before tx. Cottage cheese sounds good, with some peaches. I have stayed about the same weight, but I seem a bit bigger around the middle.  

I think my thing with food is if it makes me feel good (happy) and I can get it down. Yes, I know I should do better, but right now isn't the time to bug me about this, ya know!?

[beamishboy]

trx:treatment ..... bx:liver biopsy ...sx:side effects......good going on losing the xtra weight,just betters our chances of clearing this virus..GoodLuck& SVR:sustained viral response

[dyce]

Got her goin dude, goods , bad days . I sure hope you and fish are right about gettin the natural resourses back. Stayed off the scaffolds and stilts today, don't want to damage any walls or floors in the hotel up there in the mnt. guy. I hate going to work like this but it does keep time a rollin along.

    Started the nac there the other day and I've started to feel a little better. Sometomes I'm a little jammed up , don't know if it's the meds or what.Doc is runnin some colon test on me so we'll see. High ferritin and the pipes don't seem to want to absorb the iron. Like goof said it's a maze and I seem to be lost in it!

[beamishboy]

jammed up!! i wish.....coffee & meds keep me goin&goin&goin......yu been taping ceilings on trx??hangin rock too?? you r one tough cookie,mister dyce......i want you on my team!

[Pdilly]

Hey it would be good to know what you can eat.  I have heard no to IRON stuff but eat yogurt or something during or prior to Riba.  I also have heard someone say lay low on the carbs. What can you eat?

[beamishboy]

some fats w/ riba is recommended;helps w/ absorption/efficientcy...veggys,fruits,nuts often cited as positive ;yogurt can provide the fat& helps w/ bowel disorders..small meals r easier on the digestive tract...this isa discussion yu should be able to research via archives...GoodLuck

[OnAPrettyPoison]

Now, I drink my vege greens and do my apple cider vinegar, take all my vitamins, but I could not, would not, EVER of my own free will put a beet in my mouth.  Sorry, just not going there.  I don't eat a bunch of junk.  I got to have my vegetables.  But I also have to have my kid food like burgers, pizza and PB&J.

[GoofyDad]

Rocker: "I eat tons of ......aluminin free deoderants"

Well I s'pose you've at least got some nice fresh breath!
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Dyce:"don't want to damage any walls or floors in the hotel up there ..... Sometomes I'm a little jammed up"

Yo dude! You launching those bombs from the scaffold?

Actually, your comments on iron are thought provoking. I had to take massive iron supplementation for surgery years ago and it had me bound up like a hamster at an S&M bar. Maybe the raised iron levels are what turned us both into concrete factories. I'm doing better BTW, at least they're no longer causing physical damage at the exit point.
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Shadoww: Others here have a lot more to say than I can on vitamins and supps. I'd say at a minimum you want a top quality time release multi-vitamin w/o iron.

[dyce]

Cando , goofeys got a good scene for the video . Instead of the head cam , a human canon ball while safely perched on top of the scaffold . No damage to the dyce noggin , just good clean projection of the iron tur- balls! Who cares about the hotel walls and floor, the rateings will be great! I can position the cam over me shoulder. Just gotta be careful I don't shoot 1 through the wall and hit a guest or sumthin! I'll clear the set !! Whatta ya think?

[FlGuy]

Interesting about the higher, then lowered, peg dose. After you got acclimated to the 360, you were on it for a few more weeks before going to 180 mcg.  Did you notice a significant difference in the the way you felt at 180 dose versus the 360?  Probably difficult to compare due to the 1200 riba throughout.