All very interesting !
Re Alpha Lipoic Acid
Attention for Liver Disease: May interact with drugs metabolized by liver.
Are the DDAs metabolized by liver.? For some reason, I thought it was the kidneys and that's why we need kidney checks?
or am I in a bain-fog moment?
Milk thistle doesn't like me at all! The thing is, we are all unique, so much of Hepatitis C advise is based around fatty liver - I am the opposite way, I have skinny everything, including liver ! I don't absorb fats well, proteins etc and am very under-weight, muscles have also wasted - It's a big fight to keep weight on. I started taking Milk Thistle when first diagnosed and realised after some time and more reading, it is also used as a slimming aid ! At 43 kgs this wasn't the idea at all .
Stopped it a year ago - Funny, my instincts told me it wasn't right for me personally.
(edit) I was taking B12, then stopped, bloods showed I was lacking so have started again - Re VitD - No sun here at all at this time of year, so taking that now, when in a hot, sunny climate I don't bother, I feel much better for sunshine, there's no doubt in my mind about that.
So I think I shall take Dr F's advise and continue with the Vit B12 and VitD.
Not sure what to think re statins and really don't know anything much about them, except there is much debate for and against for dishing them out to all over 50.
We are complex beings !
GT1a Dec14 F2/8.7 VL 900000-2.5M
Jan16 Hepcivir-L MonkMed/Redemption
Baseline: VL 913575 Alt 76 Platelets low
Wk2 VL1157 Alt 23
DET Wk 8 VL 32 Alt19 'In the slow lane'
June16 Fibro 5.7 F0/1 LIF 1.5
Wk 11 VL<12 Alt 13 Det/Unq
Extending tx 12 wks Mylan Sofo/Dac MonkMed
Wk 14 VL <12 Det/Unq
Wk 16 VL UNDETECTED
Wk 22 + 4 Wks Sunprevir FixHepC
Wk 24 UNDETECTED Alt 13
Wk 12 post tx SVR12 Wk 26 SVR24
Thank-you Tim, Dr Debasis @ MonkMed & Dr Freeman @ Fix HepC