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> -----Original Message----- > From: Parkinson's Information Exchange > [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Nita Andres > Sent: Sunday, November 15, 1998 2:44 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN > Subject: Re: New to the list / i smell another rat > > > A long, long time ago we had hepatitis A, and B and something > called non A , non > B. See Will Johnstons post. That is or was the treatment, I > haven't looked in > a long time. Never the less, I knew other nurses who got much better on > treatment and none who got worse. The same for people who had > contracted it from > transfusions. Being afraid of MDs is common, but silly. A few > needles and and a > clinical depression can be helped, even advanced liver disease > can be helped. > Find a doctor you like and stop the excuses. You can get over Hep > C most of the > time,( nothing is absolute.) and and as miserable as it is it is > possible to get > over a clinical depression, you just have to get off the dime. > Even a transplant > beats dying. AS a clinical nurse and then an infection control > nurse, I knew a > number of people with all (one at a time or all at once) you do > not get over > being dead. by the way What color are you the whites of your > eyes. Bye, Nita They are white, they've never been yellow. I've lost hair a couple of times and bled from the esophagus once and was banded. David > DAVID OLLER wrote: > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Parkinson's Information Exchange > > > [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Nita Andres > > > Sent: Sunday, November 15, 1998 10:20 AM > > > To: Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN > > > Subject: Re: New to the list / i smell another rat > > > > > > > > > I think you said that you also had hepatitis C, if so there > is now a good > > > mainstream treatment for it , which you should look into, don't > > > ignore it I > > > have nothing to say about the other stuff. Nita > > > > Are you talking about inferon? It has been two years since I > last went for > > an exam, at that time I was evaluated for a liver transplant, > and inferon > > was not considered due to the amount of cirrosis. Some freinds > went on that > > treatment and got worse. It appears to be controversial, or was at that > > time. > > > > Originally I was diagnosed with type "B" (this was before they > even had a > > "C" classification) the different stories I've been told by different > > doctors and the number on contradictions is a nightmare. One > doctor tried to > > put me on steroids, and stopped treating me when I showed him a > report that > > steroids increased mortality rates. > > > > Basically I'm afraid of doctors, and the depression I suffered > when I was > > going to them worsened my condition every time. > > > > David >