Thanks for the advice. And yes, my vitamin D was low....something like 20 I believe, so I started taken a vitamin D supplement, and still do. I had to even increase my dosage since the first dosage I took didn't get it up to the proper level. Do you think the low vitamin D could have been causing me to twitch and feel just awful?
My doctor said it was because of coQ10 and vitamin D deficiency from the statins. She recommended StatinHelp (www.statinhelp.com) that is sold on Amazon. It has really helped with the muscle pains. Statin side effects are never really discussed by the doctors. I found out two years into treatment when I mentioned needing something for back and leg pain to her. By then I was taking 10-15 advil per day to function. Thankfully she was a runner who believed in vitamin supplements.
I am currently on 125 mcg of Levothyroixin and I do take a scriptual vitamin D 50,000 iu weekly, in addition to 1000-1500 mg daily of calcium citrate.
p.s. I am 47, had a hysterectomy at 36 and have one kidney. Any help you can provide would be so very appreciated and Yes!
I would be interested in a consultation, because no answers have been forthcoming for me.
check for liver researchers and statins, the studies were from 2009 conferences and bader is the one studying sim for hbv and hcv.it is know sim has also an effect on immune system and is used on hcv with interferon and vitamin d to increase svr
the drugs not used yet are antidiabetes but researchers in florence, close to my hospital, said that they are very useful for HCC prevention or cure.
“If you are unaware that a patient is on simvastatin and you give either boceprevir or telaprevir, the simvastatin level in the blood can go high and patients can develop muscle breakdown,” said Dr. Jensen.
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Are there any antioxidants that you would suggest taking? I already take Milk Thistle/ Selenium. I also started taking Vitamin D, C , A B12 etc. I need all the help I can get, going to work looking like this is very embarrassing, unfortunately there hasnt been much I could do thus far. PLEASE HELP!!
peg+simvastatin+alinia+vit d3 and possibly tenofovir too, this will improve hbsag clearance veyr very much because peg monotherapy has only hbv clearance of 8% in 48 weeks, too low
heptech products are all ok except fibroguard, you shpuld not take fibroguard as lon as you are on peg
Abstract
Epidemiological evidence indicates a significant association between vitamin D deficiency and an increased incidence of autoimmune diseases. The presence of vitamin D receptors (VDRs) in the cells of the immune system and the fact that several of these cells produce the vitamin D hormone suggested that vitamin D could have immunoregulatory properties, and now potent immunomodulatory activities on dendritic cells, Th1 and Th17 cells, as well as B cells have been confirmed.
why not everybody is responsive to interferon?
the main way hbv can remain cronic is by blocking interferons and citokines, even if we inject them in high quantity hbv blocks them anyway.
we do know we can preent his by making hbv weak and we know interferon can be henanced by this:
simvastatin 80mg (monitoring carefully for sides, otherwise 40mg), interferon works by lowering intracellular cholesterol that is used by viruses to make antigens and virions.
My mother is 70 years old. In the past year there have been many significant changes in her health for the worst. I've gone through 2 family doctors and 2 neurologists and none can explain what is wrong with her. First I'd like to tell you what medication she is currently taking then I'll tell you what's wrong with her. A) Verapamil 240 mg B) clonozepam 1 mg C) simvastatin 20 mg D) levothiroxin 50 mcg E) Benicar 40 mg F) ramapril 10 mg.
entecavir lowers hbvdna and replication, so number of circulating virions but cannot stop virions and replication complitely
simvastatin, makes weak virions so maybe replication can be lowered so much or stopped complitely and fasten cccdna and hbsag lowering
nitazoxanide, acts lowering hbsag
it is also good to note that etv and ntz has no sides, and also simvastatin has almost no sides (only less than 1% develops sides on liver) and studies on sim on cirrhosis have found lower liver cancer ra
sorry how long on entecavir?
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