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Subject: Re: single with hep c Author: Steve [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 19:28:03 11/01/02 Fri In reply to: karen 's message, "single with hep c" on 16:50:53 10/28/02 Mon Hi Karen, I know all to well what you are going through. Thus far Hep C has cost my job, my family, and most of my friends. Those that remain by my side are sympathetic but they are few in number. I was diagnosed in 97 and have been through treatment twice. Right now I am in a group for people who do not respond to the interferon/Riboviren, so I sit waiting to see if they wish to risk the expensive treatments or if they will let it go for liver transplant. I have not developed cirrosis yet. I can only say keep reaching out there are some compassionate individuals out there, they are just few and far between. We are all in this together. Yours, Steve [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> Subject: Re: single with hep c Author: Antia [Edit] Date Posted: 08:18:16 11/08/02 Fri >-Hello Karen. I found out I have Hep C last Feb. I was devasted. I just want to give you some encouragement. I have found the best thing for me has been no alcohol in any form, not even food or over the counter drugs. A diet full of fresh veges and lean meats and lots of water. The diet is surprising like a diabetic diet, sugar is very hard on the liver so I limit my intake of sugar, especially refined sugar like high frutose corn surayp. I would be glad to share emails with you to help with the encouraging thing. I know how you feel about the isolation thing. Some of my friends are totally freaked out by this. They are afraid they will catch it from me somehow. Hello, my name is Karen. I am 40 yrs. old I am >single and I have hep c. I have been on interferon >shots and rebetron pills for one month now. I found >out my pos. status two days after Sept. 11th. I was >recently single then and had just got my own apt on >sept. 1, 2001. Needless to say, my world fell apart. >The new one I was trying to create. I feel doomed to >being all alone now because of this virus that I >contracted during an operation in 1983. I know noone >with the virus. I am on an experimental approved for >testing super strength interferon and pills. I am >sick with fever and pain for 6 out of the 7 days. I >live alone. I am all alone thru this. Family lives >far away and friends seemed to have scattered from my >life because of this. Is there life after hep c? >Please write, thanks, Karen