Posted 10/6/2012 3:43 PM (GMT 0)
Hi Star,
They say the liver has no nerve endings, so liver pain is unusual. but there are other organs nearby that CAN generate pain. Pancreatitis is often part of this disease syndrome. My Mike has had chronic pancreatitis for years...with some hospitalizations. AND the gall bladder and bile ducts can get "stones" caught which can cause a lot of pain which radiates all over...front, back, sides. These things are GI matter so it is not unusual to have problems with them too!
I do not have liver disease but had my gall bladder out alone the way and I could control the attacks for a long while (until I had good insurance) with diet. Nothing FATTY. Small portions of meat (same as liver disease, no RED meat). No alchohol. And nothing too spicy. Lots of water. Small meals often. The thing that sent me to an ER finally was fasting and eating apples with the skin on when I was on some stupid kind of diet...fasting every 6 days but for the applies! I was a hurtin' lady.
You might want to have a good long talk with someone about your ability to continue to work at your job with Hep C during treatment. Some cannot. Mike could not. He was too tired, depressed, and behaved oddly much of the time...grumpy, saying in appropriate things, and we had to have him stop driving becasue he was erratic and wanted to "show that guy" this or that...like stopping quickly in moving traffic is someone was tailgating...unsafe things!
Good luck with all this. The goal is Sustained Viral Response....keep your eye on the long term!
Carol