To The Negative opions

[helpmeAbby]

At Least Iam  willing and hoping that they did find a cure and I don't give a **** if I got to stick a needle in my eye or take 50 pills a day.IAM Being postive about this and I GOT NOTHING MORE TO LOSE OTHER THEN TO GAIN

[Kalio1]

I use a mouth cure that is basically the same ingredients as what you are using but with some added numbing agent thrown in that I have a prescription for. It works great with the added benefit of offering immediate relief because of the numbing agents. If I have a sore, I use the stuff every few hours and it clears up in a day or two. If your sores are persisting and the goop isnt working it could be that their cause is herpes or some other viral agent. I know many use Lysine to help them. I'd speak to your doctor and make sure he asertains what they are caused by so you an treat them appropriately. See if lysine is ok to take on tx ( I was told it is) you a purchase it OT I believe. Good lucck finding a solution. I know the mouth sores can be a REAL bummer on tx. Mine have completely cleared up now so hang in there.

here is what my pharmacy makes for me it is called " Magic Solution or Michael's Magic Solution"

lidocaine 120ML
Nystan  240ML
Benadryl 80ML
Decadron 40ML

[mycoldfeet]

Speaking of negative stereotypes I posted a thread on Cryoglobulinemia a few days ago and one of the sx of this is rash and they showed a picture of the rash on a mans hand with a huge marijuana leaf tatoo under the rash, then stating that cryo is normally associated with hepatitus. Needless to say I was a bit miffed.

[bobbyullc]

i am going to sue them people for using my photo without paying me. it ain't fair...no wonder i do dope.

bobby

[GrandOak]

sfbaygirl: Not many people realize you can catch hep c from fights or abuse.

Perhaps that's why most studies reporting on what percentage of the population is infected always exclude those in prisons, where surprisingly the ratio of infected to non-infect inmates is much higher than the 2-3% which the CDC claims is ratio in the USA.

Our own local support group has also done testing at many gay pride events and found that the results indicate at least a 4% infection rate amoung professed homosexuals.

As far as I know, no one has tried sampling the homeless, which like the incarcerated is another group excluded from all studies I've seen, to see that the ratio is there.

Yet despite all the large untested segment of the population, coupled with the infected portion which will not acknowledge their infection for various reasons (which seems to be mostly due to the fear of being judge based upon the IVDU stigma), the studies by the CDC and others still claim that the infection rate is on the decline and will eventually become a non-factor as those from the Make Love Not War hippy era die off.

[GrandOak]

Or that 50% of the deaths attributed to HIV/AIDS are also people who are co-infected with HCV.  Which begs the question as to the cause of death: Was it because of HIV/AIDS or because HIV/AIDS allowed HCV to destroy the liver?

[sfbaygirl]

I totally agree. Although we are preaching to the choir on the forum.

Not many people realize you can catch hep c from fights or abuse.