Hi Nick,

Drinking is an additive insult to the liver. Not drinking is a good option but low level (social type) drinking in somebody young is unlikely to have any major impact, particularly given you will get treatment at some stage in the reasonably near future.

If your e-cig was planned as a stepping stone to quitting all power to you.

Milk thistle is a herbal supplement that definitely helps. It contains silymarin and is widely used for liver conditions in the old USSR.

Coffee is actually good for your liver and has been shown to delay the onset of fibrosis so feel free to have a cup of two of Joe – there is probably a benefit in quitting this quitting!

This article from the National Library of Medicine is called “Coffee: the magical bean for liver diseases”

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5440772/

Hi Nick,

I had Genotype 3 which is harder to treat and made worse by cirrhosis which occurred over twenty plus years. Far as I know I am still clear of the virus after DAA treatment.

Using GP2U (Skype) was pretty okay here in Australia and the generic medications easy to obtain, though at that time they were not free, but still affordable. In Australia we have something called the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme and now the DAA’s are subsidised (read only need a token payment and the government pays the rest).

Read lots of posts on this forum from people in America, and people who cannot get the DAA’s through your insurance schemes there, appear to manage to get them anyway at an affordable cost.

The “Not for me but for my kids, they need a father” resonated with me as my own General Practitioner said similar to me when I told him I was going the generic DAA route through GP2U.

I think getting DAA’s in America is not as simple as it is here, but from what I have read in the forum it is doable, and there is lots of advice here how to manage this.

Hep C ain’t anybody’s friend and take it from me, life is that much better without it.

Best wishes

Jeff

Hello GF,

Nick is not on treatment yet and has no defined starting date so reaching for the good herbs and supplements beats doing nothing.

On treatment you are already on the best liver supplements ever invented for Hep C patients. Any useful supplement must have 1 or more active ingredients for which the drug-drug interactions are unknown.

Thus the advice about stopping them during treatment.