Diet, Exercise & Spirtual Growth and how it reduced my viral load.

December 10, 2008

I have been a member of the group for some years now, lurking mostly

but I have posted a few times. My history is that I was diagnosed

Hep-C positive genotype 3A in Oct 99. I was a heavy drinker at the

time and my viral load was 4.9x10^6 then. I stopped drinking for 6

months and my viral load dropped to 437,460. I started treatment in

Apr00 for the 24 weeks of Interferon and Rebotol. At 12 weeks into the

treatment, the viral load was 2231, good news, I was an early

responder, and the viral load was undetectable by month 3. The 4 week

post treatment showed I was also a non-sustained responder and the

viral load was 24K. It kept increasing and jumped up to 2.1x10^6 at my

5 month post treatment date. Since then it has fluctuating between

1.9x10^6 and 710K. My last liver biopsy in Jan 07 showed stage 4

cirrhosis with mild inflammation.

A good friend of mine, Hep-C geno-1A, suggested this life style

change after he had relapsed on his third round of treatment. He went

to a totally raw diet and started working out regular basis. It kept

his viral load in remission for over a year now. I decided to try this

approach instead of the 48 week re-treatment offered by Duke.

I'm not selling anything here, and the information is free. I have

been slowly modifying my lifestyle and have dropped my viral load from

602K in Jan05 to 32K in Oct08. My liver enzymes are almost normal

(SGPT=58, SGOT=52) and I feel great and have really improved my energy

levels.

If you are considering treatment, and are interested in what I did to

address the viral load, I would like to help. Post here and I will

respond.

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