taking prescription drugs for backpain

[yoghy]

hi I'm new here glad to have find this
I've being hep C 17 years now. but 10 years  ago I had a back operations my lumbar, ever since the doctor give me a variety of painkillers from oxicontin to tramake and valium, now I've stop the oxicontin and I'm down 3 valium a day from 5 so now is a 5mg twice a day and tramake 100mg twice a day. now the doc every 6 month's he blood test me for liver, but now my body is addicted to meds the summers is here so I hope to get off 100mg of tramake I so painful despite my bone and chills my liver hurts when I cut down each time as I was before one 100mg 4 time a day, I had a vaccine for A and B I never yet had jaundice thank God but the hospital can put me on that interferon stuff be house of medication does anybody knows if I can help my liver while try to cut down on meds???

[flyinlynn]

Hi where are you located? Do you know about the medicines approved in the last couple of years that can cure hep c without interferon?

One of the drugs is harvoni used to treat genotype 1, 4, 5, or 6 other genotypes use different treatments.

Depending on your genotype you could just need to take 1 pill a day for 12 weeks and be cured of hep c forever. Even newer drugs are also coming soon but current odds of cure are better than 95%.

The best way to help your liver is to get treated and cured of hep c.