I found out I have hepatitis C. I don't know for sure how I got it, but I had awful jaundice, high liver test levels 5 years ago after I had a bad car wreck. They went away and now I'm finding out I may have had this for the past 5 years. Alcohol is the worst thing for the liver especially when it is damaged.

There is only about a 65% success rate in treatment. I will start that in about 6 months. I have to be sober for 6 months before they start treatment. I haven't had a drink for 12 days, not since the day after I found out. Of course I had to go out for one last hurrah(if you can call it that) the night I got my test results.

The good news is I'm young(33) and even if I did have this for 5 years, my liver isn't too damaged yet, so hopefully they caught it early enough. I never would have found out about this if I hadn't went to get topa from my doctor. She did prescribe it for me, but ran tests also. Called me the same afternoon and told me my results were abnormal and I couldn't take the topa.

Although I have a bigger motivation not to drink now, it's still hard. Even though I'm only doing parts of the program, I feel alot of support on this board so I read and post often.

Welcome Carl.

Marcie