A Glass Of Wine With Dinner

[Magnum]

My oh my... this is very interesting. As most of you know, I had a liver transplant and am now undetectable. I was treated in Las Vegas for 14 years by a doctor who treated me through all my treatment nightmares and was instrumental in warning me when to get on the transplant list when I was near death. I am still in touch with him, as he wants to know my progress.

A couple of weeks ago, I saw my transplant doctor at UCLA Medical Center in L.A. and asked if I could have a glass of wine with dinner. He said "no". The interesting point here is that my Hepatologist in Vegas today when we spoke, said "yes". His explanation was "Why not? Now that you have a perfectly good working liver, you should be just fine enjoying your glass of wine with dinner, as long as you don't overdo it". Being Italian, and following in the footsteps of my heritage, all my relatives had a glass of wine with dinner. In fact, my mother did as well, and lived to be 95. My uncle is 94, aunt is 82 and grandmother died at 92.

So, I would like to hear from anyone here who has asked this question to their doctor and let us know what he said. By the way, my grandfather was an exception. He drank a quart of whiskey every adult day of his life and lived to be 92. When I went to his cremation, that fire would not go out...

Magnum                                                                            

[susan400]

Magnum, if you lurking on this thread still (without responding), I apologize if I attacked you. That certainly was not my intention. I consider you my friend.  I am just worried about it affecting your treatment drugs. I really don't care if you decide to drink an occasional glass of wine AFTER Tx.  But, just look at what happened to me. I wasn't not drinking any all through my treatment and in fact gave up alcohol 19 yrs ago.  But, even though I went undetected on week 4 of the Sovaldi/Peg/Riba, was undetected week 8 and was undetected on 1 week post treatment... I still relapsed.  I don't want you to relapse on your Harvoni, plain and simple...     Take care.  Merry Christmas, Susan400

[Ekkiemom]

Hi OM
IMHO I believe that everyone knows what the truth is in each of us, purely from a common sense point of view.  That being said, brings me back to personal choices, where we are at maturity wise, where we are at in our sobriety, if we are just making the motions still romancing our addictions (if struggling w/any addiction) or walking the walk. Ultimately it comes down to the individual to make that decision. I'm stage 3-4 Fib and  had virus 30+ and haven't felt this good in I can't even remember how long. I'm not willing to take a chance with alcohol, above that I don't desire it......sorry so wordy, I get like that but I just want to get my point across, hope I was not too harsh.....
Time to go
Peace and Blessings my friend
Namaste........deb

[OMECO]

And then I asked two other hepatologists. One said: No alcoholic drinks anymore, the other one said: Max. One drink a day. I'm fibrose fade 3. What is the truth?

[OMECO]

I'm in a trial of Gilead at the moment and asked the hepatologist if I could have a glass of wine with my Christmasdinner. He said: Ok, but take care that it's a good glass of wine

[hepcandme]

I told a dear friend about this question posted by a someone in my support group. She is an alcoholic but has been sober for 5 years

My friend thought it was "mean" for you to post this comment to your fellow heppers who cannot Ever have a drink again. It was something that I hadn't thought of, really, although it did seem an odd post

She also thought it sounded like classic alcoholism as well but she is in recovery so she kinda looks at things through that lens

I am certain that you were not trying to be mean, Magnum

A healthy, happy holiday to you and fingers crossed on SVR!!

[Rbeth]

Oh gosh, I knew that ;-) that would be like the hunters who went home ....
Da Da Dum!!


Btw, how are your headaches? And eyes?

Ran