Re: hello. From Hanna

[Guest guest]

Sue, I drink 100% juice and squeeze my own juices and veggies. Fatty foods are not good for Hep-C patients. Or shell fish. Beans are wonderful, green veggies, fiber, lots of water,carrots, beets,asparagus,garlic, kale, flax seed, mustard and turnip greens, oatmeal is great. Try to stay away from foods with pesticides, foods containing added hormones, fried foods, sugars, artificial sweetners are horrible for you,red meat is hard on the liver, get your protien else where. dairy foods except for yogurt, and some cereals. love Hanna

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Hello and thanks for the welcome aboard. i hope people don't get tired of my questions, but this is pretty overwhelming to us right now. We finally figured out that my husband got hep c from a needle when he had tattoos done way before i met him. As a kid, you do things, never once thinking they will come back to haunt you years and years later. i don't know if he should try the shots and pills or just ride it out and see if it goes into remission or whatever it's called like it did for the past ten years. Now he feels tired most of the time and his legs ache. Are there foods and medications or vitamins and such that he should stay away from? thanks and everyone please tell me if i post too much. have a good day.sue

[Guest guest]

Hanna, oh my! if I take away ice cream from my husband, he'll have a coronary

and won't

have to worry about his hep c. Smile. He does love oatmeal, eats lots of fruit

and veggies, but

red meat, especially during the summer, is his favorite, like grilled burgers. i

can see he and I

have a lot to learn. thank you.

sue in Washington state

[Guest guest]

Hi, ,

A personal note on fatty foods: obviously I crave them or I wouldn't be overweight (though I've now lost about 15 lbs since my dx). I can get away with everything so far (unfortunately!) except one: fried foods.

I had "serum" hepatitis in 1967 when there was no A or B. Since then I've really had no symptoms except one: pain in my liver after eating greasy fried foods. I always attributed this to "scarring" from my early hep C.

Oh, yeah, forgot something: when I was still drinking (alcoholically), I started to get liver pains, and this scared my enough so that I went to a mental health center, had blood work done and made my first attempt to stop drinking. Unfortunately, when I went to AA meetings I heard people say that their liver had swollen up, or even that they had early cirrhosis, but that the swelling went away after they quit drinking. I heard what I wanted to hear, and told myself: "I'm not THAT bad, and what the hell, the liver is the only organ in the body that regenerates itself, so...hello again, Mr. Budweiser and Mr. Jack s." Big mistake! But it's water over the dam now.

Anyway, welcome, -- and stay away from the Colonel!

in Vermont