Ok.

Guess this means I should consort with the archive pages.

I am actually feeling a bit better today...I think someone prayed for me.
Thank you whoever you are.

Please excuse my drama and impatience, tired of being sick.

Levicah, unfortunately, this site is very slow. I'm usually on the Hep C site. I'm sorry you are having such a bad time. I still have phase 2 - 3 fibrosis, but it's my second liver. My first liver had progressed to early cirrhosis and a cancerous tumor before my transplant 3 years ago.The hep c is progressing much faster than before my transplant, which got rid of the early cirrhosis and the cancer. Transplant doesn't get rid of hep c. I'm weak and tired all the time from anemia and a partially blocked portal vein.
I will be praying for you and your family. God bless. Marilyn

Sorry to hear you are not feeling well Levicah. I experience a lot of that. Nausea, hunger pangs but absolutely nothing sounds good if I force myself to eat it comes back up. The only way I can keep it down is to eat very small portions and sip hot tea while i'm eating and a cup afterwards. Seems to help the food digest easier. I noticed that this is worse when I start getting a bit of ascites built up. My stools get like that at times as well. And, it seems like the more I try to do the connecting tissue around my liver gets pretty irritated with me. So I do what I can to get back in sync. I take more diuretics, drink water in sips, eat high protiens, then I eat very tiny meals about 6 times a day, tiny light meals. After doing that for awhile then my stomach/eating seems to straighten out, If my "liver" starts to hurt (actually the connecting tissue) then I watch what I'm doing and take it easy for a bit. Also eat healthy, try to get as much exercise as I can and I am going to start juicing very soon here. I've heard wonderful things about it for our livers and the rest of our systems.

You are not a worthless human being in this condition. I know you feel like one, I feel the same. But we are not, we still have a lot to offer. We can encourage people, make people smile or laugh etc etc. We just feel like crap while we're doing it.. :)

My thoughts and prayers are with you, hope you get to feeling better real soon.

Shelley

Thank you Marilyn and sevetts!

I don't even get hunger pangs, just zero appetite. Which is sad because I used to be a wonderful cook, almost chef quality, but now I really don't care. I eat a lot of eggs since they're so quick and I'll make lasagna or spaghetti dishes early in the week and force myself to eat them all week long because I know I have to.

Never had any stool problems, except when on lactulose, but no longer take it. Can't really comment as I still have my gallbladder, but your symptoms may be totally normal.

The weakness and fatigue I think we just learn to live with. My doctor upped me to 4,000 units of vitamin D-3 for fatigue. If that doesn't help, wants to put me on a prescription version based on vitamin D-2.

Lemon water is actually very good for you, but you've got to get some other nutrients and vitamins in your body.

Thanks Wilbur, it makes a lot of sense, I live in the green rain state and don't go out much....will try more vit D3.

I never know when to take supplements because of my sporadic diet.

I'm afraid it is a waste of time to take them without eating also..?

Lost over ten lbs. this last week, eating once a day, teeth are in awful, painful condition.

Googling "dental death" doesn't help, maybe or probably I'm not getting the nutrients out of my food.

When do you take your vit. D?? with food?