Thanks for the advice. Many of these are supplements which i think should be taken after he finishes the course of medication. He has taken lots of supplements that cost far more than what was paid for these if you add the long term usage to it.

For example there's this L PRO thing, and someone also recommended Essentiale Forte to him, which I immediately researched and said no.

The reason is because this is a hep c virus. A virus that must be erradicated first. Supps preserve, but they don't cure. The doc also said the same thing which I agree : "you gotta kill the virus first, which is the root of the problem, then you can do whatever you want after that"

So I would be very careful on advicing supps which has a high chance of a placebo.

You are very helpful. I only fear that adding other things will skew the result, whether it's possitive or negative. What's important when doing such test is having absolute data. But of course that's not entirely possible, since some of the things we take daily affects the outcome even if it's not a supplement, plus many other factors.

If they (the supps) all relate very closely to the liver condition however, that data will be skewed and we wouldn't have known for certain what helped, or what didn't help. Although honestly speaking, I also want him to speed up the recovery. All these things I have read before it's very good, but for the sake of clinical test with higher accuracy, we have decided to not take it. 

Turmeric curcumin inhibits entry of all hepatitis C virus genotypes into human liver cells

This study showed that turmeric extract repressed the production and secretion of hepatitis B surface antigen from HepG 2.2.15 cells, an activity that is mediated through the enhancement of cellular accumulation of p53 protein by transactivating the transcription of the p53 gene as well as increasing the stability of p53 protein

The purpose of the study is to investigate the hepatoprotective effect of fermented turmeric powder (FTP) on liver function in subjects with elevated alanine transaminase (ALT) levels.

Of the 48 subjects, 26 randomly received FTP capsules and 22 received placebo. The FTP group showed a significant reduction in ALT levels after 12 weeks of treatment compared with the placebo group (p = 0.019)

Curcumin inhibits hepatitis C virus replication via suppressing the Akt-SREBP-1 pathway

None of us know anything for sure. I don't know how this or any other supps will work.

Here's what is said by this article. http://www.webmd.com/hepatitis/features/he...tive-treatments - "Dietary and herbal supplements can't cure hepatitis C, but many people take them to try to ease their symptoms or get relief from the side effects of treatment. Do they work? For most of these products, scientists don’t have a firm answer."

Now I'm not saying people can't take it. Everyone is free to express their opinion, and patients have their own choice. If I wanted to restrict public opinion I would've created a blog and publish all the info there, but I chose to do it in the forum. I do applologize if I am on the offense side of things in my recent comments.

Here's the thing to everyone: No matter what you take, and which path you choose, always confirm it with data. If you decide to take the supps instead of the more expensive pills, that doesn't mean you don't need to go for a checkup for viral load test. My dad took lots of supps, but he didn't go for a checkup and just assumed that he is OK.

What @ramjade suggested is to take the combination of pills and supplements. As I have mentioned it before, it [could] be a waste of money or effort. It's like saying, well why take 1 vitamin C when taking 5 vitamin C is better? Hence, why my comment is about choosing. Do you really need to take the pills and supps together?  There's little to no evidence that taking drugs with the supps speed up the healing.

Curcumin has also been shown to have significant wound healing properties. It acts on various stages of the natural wound healing process to hasten healing.

I am a 70-year old Malaysian who has Hepatitis C and was treated on "Ribavirin" and "Interferon" for 6 months (5/2/15-14/7/15).

After 6 months,the SVR showed that it failed.

Now my doctor advised me to go to India to buy the new drug Sofosbuvir. For health reasons I'm unable to go there. I'd like to buy it online from Incepta Pharmaceutical in Bangladesh.

Please advise me on the procedure and documents.

Thank you in advance.