Hepatitis C Support Group
Hepatitis C is a blood-borne viral disease which can cause liver inflammation, fibrosis, cirrhosis and liver cancer. The hepatitis C virus (HCV) is spread by blood-to-blood contact with an infected person's blood. Many people with HCV infection have no symptoms and are unaware of the need to seek treatment. Hepatitis C infects an estimated 150-200 million people worldwide.
Good morning all....i have just started my first day of treatment....and i am just wondering if anyone knows if you can take iron supplements during treatment?
My doc knew i was and said to stay on them and then his medical assistant said don't....so i am confused....called the dr. line but haven't heard back.
Just curious if anyone else has ever had this problem....i am already slightly anemic and the iron seems to help keep me going...so i would rather not stop it and get sicker....any thoughts?
Thanks!
Ree1224
My doc knew i was and said to stay on them and then his medical assistant said don't....so i am confused....called the dr. line but haven't heard back.
Just curious if anyone else has ever had this problem....i am already slightly anemic and the iron seems to help keep me going...so i would rather not stop it and get sicker....any thoughts?
Thanks!
Ree1224
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My 6mo twin DD's are EBF and just started rice cereal on the first. Everything has been going fine except this morning one of them had a diaper rash (lots of redness around her anus). I read this as one of the signs of an allergy. BUT I did just buy a different brand diaper yesterday (which they have used randomly before w/no issues). Do you think its the cereal or the diaper? Im ready to start...
the hep c virus feeds and replicates with iron so this is why it hangs out in the liver. you really don't want to give the virus food to replicate!
if it were me, i would definitely NOT take any iron pills! in treatment if you get anemic they'll prescribe procrit injections.
what kind of doctor do you have? i'm surprised he told you to take extra iron. (unless there's new research that has come out in the last couple of months? but i doubt it.)
My Family Dr. is very good but he told me to take Advil for pain..I told him ..no ..my liver Dr. said NO to advil, Asa, NSAIDS ..bad for liver.
Iron feeds the virus.
It's not possible for every Dr. to know everything bout everything.
Good on you for asking! Keep asking questions.
You are your own best advocate.
http://www.healthyhepper.com/ironuptake.htm
and if you eat spinach your mouth will taste like
a box of nails.
I tried it.
But I have a question that hope can get answered on your thread.
I'm 6 months post tx, I relapsed............ should or shouldnt I take iron, after relapsing? I'm desperate for energy, will it hurt me?
NONE of my Docs ever said that......I will try to think of it, that they overlooked that valuable fact and not that they like throwing me under the bus
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ty i was gonna take an iron this morn/ guess i will wash my hair and obsess about another condition....life is so fun
Pat
Namaste