SVR / Alcohol Consumption

[Mordred]

I have two questions. First, what is SVR. Second question is with HepC being so deadly if you drink, why are all of these doctors telling their patients "one or two drinks a night is fine"? Shouldn't these doctors know to tell their patients not to drink?

[ellissg]

Back at Ya! Have a great holiday. It feels good to have posted that little dissertation. It seems it never fails that when you tell the truth, you feel better.

A beautiful Holiday season to all you great Heppers out there!

Steve

[Tony-z]

I work in the medical profession, and see many times per week where fresh blood is present and staff (this includes LPNs and Rn's) clean it up without gloves or proper disinfecting.
I have personally gone to our infectious control unit to complain, because I don't want someone to end up in my condition. But it has been to no avail, infectious control says the standards are in place.
I have had blood drawn on many occasion at the Kaiser facility were I was treated, and the phlebotomist did not wear gloves, it seems to be better over the last 2 years.

<B>I should restate my post on alcohol.</b>
At the time my Dr's said a couple drinks a week were OK, started back in 1989 till around 1995, at that time I had no, to very little fibrosis ..........

               God Bless.........

[AK - Hepper]

My doc advised me to quit drinking altogether, so I did, back in '98. It took me a few months after diagnosis to actually get there, the habit was pretty well entrenched.
I've had a few drinks a couple of times since, and got really hammered once. I had a hangover for 3 days, it wasn't a whole lot of fun. A couple of those times were right after I finished tx, the doc later advised me that I should at least wait till after my 6 month PCR to drink.

I read somewhere once that if you drink with hepc you're 10 times more likely to progress to cirrhosis and liver cancer.

[jonihs]

I don't believe that most Dr.s do say that it's okay to drink. Mine definitely did not, and I think most people here got the same advice.  Sometimes I think folks here what they want to, to some extent.  Joni

[scruffy]

Doctors are human beings and as such are sometimes wrong, sometimes right, sometimes smart and sometimes stupid. As are we all.

[Christie2004]

And you are right about some people not wearing gloves--but as a nurse I NEVER draw blood on ANYONE (hepC or not)without gloves.