TB Chronicles — 7 days down…

263 to go…Or 1 week down, 35 to go. The days make it sound much worse. Week one on the med­ica­tion has been rather unevent­ful. I’m still sit­ting in front of my com­puter a lot — writ­ing cover let­ters now, and try­ing to fin­ish up all the Mex­ico loose ends. The days go back very quickly some how.

I don’t seem to be hav­ing any major side effects to the Iso­ni­azid. The first few days I think there was a bit of nau­sea, but now I’ve fig­ured out to take it first thing in the morn­ing and then wait a short while before eat­ing break­fast. I also started tak­ing, dili­gently, a good multi-vitamin. It is really hard to find good infor­ma­tion about sup­ple­ments to sup­port or boost liver func­tion. The infor­ma­tion I did find led me to con­clude that an all-purpose multi-vitamin, lots of water, exer­cise, and no alco­hol are the best path. There is some info about milk this­tle being the alter­na­tive med­i­cine way to sup­port liver func­tion. I haven’t decided whether I should look into this fur­ther. I’m ner­vous about fig­ur­ing out a dose, which I believe is a com­mon prob­lem with alter­na­tive med­i­cine herbs and sup­ple­ments. With the liver, it is too easy for the sup­ple­ment to pass from boost­ing func­tion to stress­ing the organ, which is exactly what I don’t need to do. 

I received some other infor­ma­tion about tak­ing an antiox­i­dant to boost my immune sys­tem, which I might look into. How­ever, that came along with the rec­om­men­da­tion of only mild exer­cise. Hmmm.… whoops. I’ve been going to the gym 7 days a week and try­ing all the fun new classes that make me sore for like 3 days, and I love it. So, I can do the no drink­ing, but don’t ask me to also not exer­cise. I’m prob­a­bly going over-board with all of this, but the med­ical papers about hepati­tis and other issues were bad. Not drink­ing is prob­a­bly enough, but 263 days is a long time.