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hrsetrdr


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Starting habitual drinking was in my "dumbest things" list.

Stopping drinking goes in my "smartest things" list, which helps because that list is much shorter...



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Rubye


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Life is simply easier all around without alcohol in it. When I miss it it's usually for some perverted reason like thinking it's got some kind of noir sophistication to it.



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hep c loves alcohol.its a definte no no for me

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Maybe so, but it wasn't concern about my liver or health in general that got me sober, and its not what keeps me sober. If I choose to drink again, it will be be least of my worries, until it catches up with me down the road.



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Ya think?



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Moderate drinking? Whats that?



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I agree! Zero interest in all of that. Main focus is life free of this virus.



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I wouldn't touch a drop either.



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Yes, I agree, Malcolm and I think you`re very wise.  I still don`t drink, and after avoiding alcohol for so many years I don`t miss it at all.

Cheers, Jill 



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Hi Jill,

Good article. Hope everyone reads it! Even after SVR, I wouldn't touch a drop.



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Even moderate drinking may be risky with hepatitis C

(Reuters Health) - For people with the chronic liver infection hepatitis C, heavy drinking is an obvious no-no, but a new study links even modest alcohol consumption with an increased risk of death - and not just from liver disease.

"What this study shows is... truly, even what might be considered a moderate and safe amount of alcohol use in people without hepatitis C is dangerous to your health if you have hepatitis C," said Rae Jean Proeschold-Bell, a hepatitis C researcher at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina, who was not involved in the study.

For full article...

http://hcvadvocate.blogspot.ca/2013/03/reuters-health-for-people-with-chronic.html

 



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UND @ Wk.4, UND @ EOT, 

SVR Nov 2011 --> Still UND @ EOT + 4 yrs.

 

 
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