Re: Digest Number 525

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In a message dated 5/2/2004 7:02:14 AM Eastern Daylight Time,

Hepatitis_C_Central writes:

Milk Thistle

Is it OK to take milk thistle while you're on TX? What about if you're not

on TX but anti-depressants and blood pressure meds?

WulfeMom

tI would fall into the latter category..

All I can tell you is my liver enzymes have shot down (ALT is 81!!!)

since I started in on the Milk thistle...

I swear by it.

amy

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In a message dated 5/2/2004 7:02:14 AM Eastern Daylight Time,

Hepatitis_C_Central writes:

Milk Thistle

Yes it's ok to take this stuff at all times if you follow label

directions.....

But remember this stuff is very expensive and does nothing to help.....ric

helps me

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At 07:36 AM 5/2/2004 -0700, you wrote:

>Milk Thistle merely 'masks' LFT results. In other words, yes LFT #'s will

>come down, but it isn't a true reading. try it yourself. stop taking them

>a couple weeks and get re-tested. your LFT #'s will probably be back up.

>Just my opinion........ric

But isn't that the point? It is supposed to strengthen the liver while you

are taking it. When you stop, it stops. Vitamins work that way too--while

you take them, the body is healthier--deprive a person of vitamins, though,

and the body begins to suffer. Or food, for that matter. Cut off a

person's food supply, and they will starve and eventually die from

it. Would you say that vitamins and/or food " mask " starvation and

malnourishment? Or that they prevent them?

I don't think anyone has ever claimed it cured hcv, or at least I haven't

heard of it if they have. What I hear is that it helps the liver while you

take it.

(Just for the record--I no longer take milk thistle, as my doctor has

advised me that it interferes with other meds I take.)

Jeanne

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