Re: Newly diagnosed...

elmoemerson@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
You also have to stop drinking altogether about 30 days before the
treatments start, or they won't even talk to you.
See, the shots cost about $600 apiece, and alcohol nullifies the
medication.
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Alcohol 'nullifies' your liver, not the medication. Yeah, doctors don't
like heavy drinkers doing the tx because their liver is going to get
trashed anyway. Fact is, drinkers have the same response rate as
non-drinkers.....compliance is another matter.
elmo


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Well then, they lied to me. I was told that if I drank, the medication
would be nullified, and that it would be too expensive for them to
continue treatment if I drank.

Are you saying that it was a lie?

If you are right and I am wrong, then I want a cite, so that I can sue
them. They just gave me a load of *** last week, and I told them that
if they wanted me not to drink, that they could give me pot.

They did not like that suggestion at all, and I let them know that I had
no intention of joining their "church".

I got hep-c in 1974 from shots that they gave us in the payline, when I
was in the U.S. Navy. One-Third of the crew, or approximately 193 men
got sick. Now they want to admit it, but they want to be absolved as
well. I'm thinking a class action against the Navy and the VA might be
in order.

It's really long and complicated, so I won't tell it here, but they
would rather if we died, than if we complained. Warn your kin, that if
they join the service, they will be treated like dirt if they get sick.

This isn't true if they get shot, only if they get sick. If they get
shot, then they will be "heroes".

Thank you for your reply, but what you said is not what I was told. I
was told that if I drank while I was on the medication, that the
medication would cease to work. So I did not drink for the total of the
76 weeks that I was on interferon, including 30 days before and after.

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