Hi Lloyd,

Without getting to windy heres what's happening. I've been doing well on program #4 except that I have a pain in my right side that's not going away.

I've had it for afew years and thought it was just the "base ball under the rib" thing. The VA hospital had run 3 cat scans and a recent ultrasound. The cat scan came up with a 7mm liver lesion way back in 2003. the follow ups they did when they thought I might take the interferon came up with that lesion being of no concern. Not getting any worse.

I went in 11/15/2004 complaining of the pain in my side. They did a ultrasound of the abdomen complete. Normal uniformly echogenic liver with no evidence of mass or other abnormality by ultrasound. I asked the guy giving the ultr sound if he came across the liver lesion and he said he couldn't find it... Then he said that my spleen was enlarged and I had limited visualization of the pancreas although no gross abnormality is identified. Otherwise normal examination. They basically didn't find anything.

Now these were not Liver doctors. Funny they never mentioned a enlarged spleen from the cat scans. My pancreas numbers were a little high this time. lipase 325.

I'm just wondering if I should be looking for something for the spleen and the pancreas?

Im 55 years old and never did start the interferon.....thank god..

02/25/2003 AST50 ALT106 GGT 200 HCV PCR +5 MIL.
11/15/2004 AST58 ALT 53

So the numbers are getting better. Hell, before your herbal program I had to take 3 naps aday, dark urine, sugar crave felt like I was fixin to die!!

Any thoughts?
thanks Ben