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@agathe

Hi everyone, I would strongly suggest caution with turmeric. Natural turmeric (kitchen root you peel and cook) is fine, but beware of turmeric suppléments : potentiated with pepper - thus really assimilated - they strongly relieve joint pains, but made my ALAT jump in one week from 50 to 1200. Stopping the supplément allowed my ALAT to fall to 800 in only 3 days. Had to double my medication to rebalance my ALAT. My doctor (Internal medicine Professor) wanted to write a paper on it when he noticed such paper had already been published. We decided to ban turmeric supplements, and since then, apart from magnesium which I deeply need to to medication depletion, I stay away from supplements. I have AIH type 3 since 2017. When I took turmeric I was treated with Cellcept (Mycophenolate Mofetil) plus Prednisone after I became suddenly intolerant to Azathriopine (missing one day of treatment was enough to trigger the immediate vomiting after intake of the pill).
Now happily under Tacrolimus (1mg every 12 hours) (couldn't bare anymore the mood effects of Cellcept and Prednisone, I was too jumpy, and easily angry).
Best of luck to everyone.

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@agathe, I would like to send you my belated Welcome to Mayo Connect. I don't usually visit this Support Group because I am a liver/kidney transplant recipient and spend most of my time in the Transplant Support Group. I am glad that I saw you post! You shared your experience with Natural tumeric and as a result made the suggestion to use caution about using certain supplements.
This is such an important message! I am happy that you were able to work with your health care provider and determine a plan that works for you!

I hope you continue to do well ❤️