This is based on my 8 years observation.           
I remember that when I was in China for medical treatment. I was very irritated when Dr. Chang told me not to eat meat or oily food, which were against fundamental rule of Herb medicine.
The meat is actually main source of energy. I cannot imagine what life would become if one is not allowed to eat meat. That was why I, being a patient of Dr. Chang, was not cooperating enough to follow his advice. My wife has a good point.
“If you are not able to eat delicious food, then there is nothing left meaningful in your life.”
Did our old Confucius say some thing like ”Eating and Sex are basic nature of human life?
Therefore, eat all delicious food you get a hand on it. However, be moderate. Or you may face the fact of being a diabetic or obesity.  Both of them can cause health trouble in your life and even become killer.
After I take Epivir daily, I have no restriction on my diet. Well, in that sense, is it good news? Another issue I like to deal with it is the CRAMP or CLONUS. I think it was caused by personal careless.
With PT count dropped under normal level (150~240 normal range) 72, I believe that most of patients experience extremely vulnerable to the cold weather. I caught Pneumonia last time while Learn from my mistakes do not doze seating in a recliner.  Particularly not covered with blanket around your thigh and leg, you might experiencing muscle pain or Cramp. The massage would not help and might last for 10 minutes. To relieve from this awful pain, I find that a glass of warm water with a small half spoonful salt would relieve the pain immediately. I did not ask doctor why. Yet it does no harm and works well. 02/04/2006
Fighting HBV, I know the fact that I cannot come up with a cure.
 Yet I am satisfied with a normal life. That is the most
important thing. Followings are my findings without scientific
research to back me up:
1. My friend gave a good advice "Don't fight Ageing Process." If you reach the retirement age (65 or elder), don't force your self or push your physical strength to the edge. Once you hurt your self, it takes longer time to heal. Once I worked 14 hours even when I felt back pain and still forced myself to work continuously. It ended with 7 days complete rest and back to normal life.
2. When taking Epivir regularly, the PT counts maintains between 55~76 up and down. The blood is thinner and I think you have
less chance to have high blood pressure. Occasionally you eat
fatty meat, it will not hurt you. The blood clot will have less
chance to be formed.
3. You drink more fruid (water) regularly than normal people.
 Since you feel mouth dried even in the night, don't hold your self until it is unbearable. That is not good and it may cause bleeding and would not be easily stopped. My experience told me that once I had a little bit nose bleeding, I drunk a cup of water and the
bleeding was stopped easily.
4. To avoid cirrhosis forming, watch your leg from time to time to see if they are getting swelling. If you are sitting too long, like you take a long 10 hours flying just sitting, you will see the
changes of the leg shape. Every one or two hours, try to stand
up and do 10 or 20 times leg stretching that would relive the
pressure.
5. Exercise regularly. Keeping it daily routine would be better.
This would help your blood
 circulate better and fast and also let the drug work effectively.
6. From time to time, you may feel easily react to the cold
 weather. I think in my theory that since HBV blood is thinner
your body would react better to warmer temperature. Of course
 if you can choose to live in Hawaii that is better choice.
Otherwise, you better wear little more than you need. In another words, I put on a light jacket when every body is wearing
 T-shirt.  Think about it! When normal people's Platelet count
240, yet yours is about 60, they got 4 times thicker in their
blood particle to sustain the cold temperature.
7. Since I wrote side effects on 8/14/06 article, my wrist and muscle
 pain had gone and does not bother me any more. This proves my
 thinking that you have to let your immune system to heal abnormal side effects provided that those side effects bearable. Otherwise, call doctors.
 8. I had felt sometime my toes numbness. I asked my family
doctor Ewing. She suspected it might be side effects of the
atenolol medicine. She administrated Hydrochlorothiazide (nick name water pill for hypertension). I tried and the side effects are still there. After the spotted fever was over, I checked my blood pressure within 70-130,I have not taken blood pressure medicine for 3 weeks. The numbness still exists. I am in an opinion that
is the result of Epivir’s side effects. It has nothing to do with
hypertension medicine.(To be continued...)