Danger to give a hep c patient iron supplements?

[fluugy]

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

[hrsepwrguy]

"Please any feedback would be most welcome.
Thanks so much!
fluugy"

"Please pray for me.
Thank you.
fluugy"

"Feedback please.
fluugy i scared"

"I feel so sorry for all of you that you are all so brainwashed"

No need to feel sorry for anyone here as we are all adults and know what we are up against.

Your welcome for all the help that these nice people took the time to try and answer your desperate questions.

Have a great day

Just a few facts for you from the uninformed Americans

There is no natural cure for Hepatitis C, and if anyone claims they have one, they are lying. It is as simple as that

Countries with high rates of people chronically infected with Hepatitis C are Egypt (22%), Pakistan (4.8%) and China (3.2%).

http://www.hepatitis-central.com/hepatitis-c/what-is-hepatitis-c.html

[Dee1956]

Who are you?  You came on here acting as if you needed help and then started actin ugly (as my grandmother called it)  People here were sincerely trying to help you.
You are wrong, yes, treatment was terrible however 3 months post I feel better than I have in many years
I could list all the people on this forum who have treated and are now fine however I have a feeling that is not what you want.  

[willbb]

We all know here that all the combos and interferons...all the "latest and greatest" do nothing but make you all sick as dogs and make your doctors RICH!
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Please show the data for members to go over that Inteferon /Ribaviran and either Victrelis or Incivek has 0% success rates ("do nothing" ) for HCV  therapy.
Thanks ...
Will

[can-do-man]

Why are you here then???

[fluugy]

What makes no sense about my last post? Makes sense to me. NO...I have not had a biopsy...not planning on getting one either.

My latest plan is to run like hell from any and all traditional western doctors and find myself a competent Chinese medicine and acupuncture doc.

We all know here that all the combos and interferons...all the "latest and greatest" do nothing but make you all sick as dogs and make your doctors RICH!

You all should be happy to hear that I am once again feeling fine. Seems every single time i go seek out treatment i go through a few days of feeling i am about to die as this is what all these docs say to me...how "dangerous" my "condition" is and i already have "one foot in the grave." I just got a fax from the doc i saw TWO YEARS ago and the blood work was virtually identical to the blood results three days ago...virtually the same virus count...actually the one three days ago was LOWER than the one of two years ago but virtually all the same. I have been feeling fine for the past two years up till i went to see this doc a month ago when i felt fatigued then he told me i was "fine" and after that i felt just "fine" then a week or a little less than that ago i went to this second doc feeling fatigued and he took another blood test that conflicted completely with doc number one and told me how "serious" my condition was and how "gravely ill" I was. So all of a sudden i start feeling worse than i ever have.

Starting last night and i awoke this morning feeling good again. Like i have been feeling for all my life.

Every single time i have sought treatment i have for some reason immediately began to feel like death. The last hep specialist commanded me to drink only ONE liter of water or any liguid a day and he was one of the most horrible human beings i have EVER encountered. He told me if i drank more than one liter of water or liguid a day i was asking for total disaster. He was a pig.

That was about five years ago.

Please all of you continue to "enjoy" your lives as CUSTOMERS to your greedy docs who couldnot care less about you just wish to keep you alive for as long as they can squeeze every last cent out of your insurance companies and cause you to wish you were dead and your poor loved ones all the suffering they endure.

As for me...thank god i have never compromised my liver with all that interferon/combo poison that makes for a total lack of "quality of life."

Wake up and smell the coffee...everyone dies...even Jesus died....i used to go to this google hep c newsgroup for way too long hearing stories every single day of "oh i am starting a new combo tomorrow" "oh i feel so sick...hope THIS time it works"...got sooooooooooooooooooooo depressing i had to leave that ng and ditto with this one.

I feel so sorry for all of you that you are all so brainwashed into believing that Eastern medicine is somehow nothing but a bunch of "witch doctors." I mean AmeriKa has got you to believe all their propaganda...politically and medically and in all other areas of your lives and it is not only making fools of you it is killing you. Do you really think the Chinese are a bunch of STUPID people...do you really believe THAT? My god they had a glorious civilization when we in the west were still living in caves and today they OWN THE USA!!!! And they not all dropping like flies due to bad medicine.

You may choose to believe that the AMA and their greedy incompetent docs and their killer drugs is THE BEST in the world but you would be mistaken. I could tell you true stories when the M.D.s had given up on those with one i recall from a colleague i rented office space with and the docs had given up on him end stage of cirrohsis and hep c they told him to get his affairs in order he would be dead in two months. Fat out of shape etc this man for whatever reason made an appt with my colleague who happens to be a chinese medicine and accupuncturist doc and it is TEN YEARS later and this man who should have long since been dead is very much alive and not only alive but plays a strenuous game of tennis each and every day. This is not a lie and this is not the only true story this competent healer has told me.

[BoceprevirGal]

  This whole last post you made, makes no sense. Have you even had a biopsy?