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What supplements to fight off acute hepatitis like liver infection?
i have an array of crippling health problems (undiagnosed) which i wont go into but lately I've began to get a kind of cramping pain in my right side. it doesnt seem to ever go away but it does fluxuate in intensity/severity. i notice when i pass gas or a stool that the pain subsides greatly, but its only temporary.
i read that if you have undiagnosed conditions such as CMV (which i think i very well may have, i have alot of symptoms including vision floaters, etc) that it can actually attack the liver and cause hepatitis. the thing is, i dont really have the hepatitis like symptoms, but i read they can take ages to fully manifest. i dont really have itching skin, i dont have yellowing skin, i dont have a loss of apetite but i do have cramping/abdominal aching.
so what should i be doing?
good liver supplements i read about are dandelion extract, milk thistle (which i take mildly), and multivitamins but... is there anything bad for the liver? does anything make it have to work harder? it seems like maybe i need something to increase my bile flow. i have cysts over my body so i always worry that finally now my disease state has converted to a full on cancer and metasticized. heh. (but my cbc is always normal. meh)
could this pain be gallstones? inflammation of colon? gah. so many possibilities... i would go to the hospital but they always just send me home and as i get sicker and sicker, im getting increasingly fearful of their treatment modalities.
i did read that avoiding animal proteins and animal fats makes it easier on the liver. i just know that when i press on my right abdominal quadrant, it feels better. as if i can push some gas/impaction and feel slight relief. and every time theres an intestinal movement it seems to give me some relief as well... but there is constantly this ongoing burning type cramping sensation. i have been drinking alcohol lately and working to cut that out, but without it i really have horrific insomnia and cannot sleep. (i can't sleep now.)
im working on cutting it out for awhile completely though if it is possible, but without it i fear the insomnia will claim me. i hope this is just some passing acute liver infection or something, but its really scaring me (and hopefully not scarring me)
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any ideas suggestions are appreciated. thanks for reading /worried