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Treatment I was just diagnosed with liver disease

And please, try not to do any drugs whatsoever. It can immediately cost your life, I'm sorry but I have to say that, too.

JJ
 
JoEhJoEh said:
Anyhow my post dissappeared:

First: Sorry for you my friend, I'll send you a lot of strenght and also a lot of humor, even if it does sound dumb. You need it not to desperately jump out of the window.

SECOND - GOOD NEWS:

Acute liver failures are much better to treat and can also be healed again. But it needs patient's compliance ;), of course.
A chronic liver failure you cannot stop and it will for sure end deadly.

So I wish you all the best and hope it is not that bad.

JJ
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JJ this Is off topic but Ur haircut looks awesome! That was a good words of encouragement btw. Props to you girl :)
 
I was given a diagnosis like this after 8 years of daily drinking. I was drinking and didn't want to get involved with any rehab. The doctor tried to get me to see a liver failure specialist who acted like my liver was actually failing then and there, which I knew wasn't true. I ended up telling them no and I detoxed overnight in ER about a 1 1/2 year later on my own. I had all the elevated blood tests for liver damage for years, my pee would get dark if I drank over 20 drinks or so a day. High blood pressure medication won't work while drinking, I had bp in the high 100s low 200s all the time the last six months I was drinking. I was asked by a doctor whether I was having a heart attack when I wnt to the ER to get antibiotics for an eye infection. Depression meds like SSRIs don't work either. I have major depression and was drinking so much I didn't realize the fluoxetine was doing nothing. Anyway I detoxed by titrating down my drinking every few hours but I went too fast and started to getting close to seizing. My wife took me to ER and they put me on a vitamin/ativan drip and discharged me 12 hours later with some ativan scrip.

3+ years later I don't take bp meds, depression med is changed to 60mg duloxetine (cymbalta), and working well compared to my prior state of mind, though sadly there's no cure. I don't have any permanent damage to my liver or pancreas at all. I did try rehab but I quit pretty quickly because there was really heavy pressure to practice AA, which I didn't want to be involved with at the time.

I'm glad you chose not to drink even though your detoxing other stuff too, which is really rough. I dunno maybe this is a moment of clarity for you, even if it turns out to be a little long, slow, and bumpy ride.
 
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yes, well done. there were a few good infos about this liver disease in my posts.

Thank you.

theVoid, just PM me because of medical stuff.

JJ
 
The Axe said:
I was given a diagnosis like this after 8 years of daily drinking. I was drinking and didn't want to get involved with any rehab. The doctor tried to get me to see a liver failure specialist who acted like my liver was actually failing then and there, which I knew wasn't true. I ended up telling them no and I detoxed overnight in ER about a 1 1/2 year later on my own. I had all the elevated blood tests for liver damage for years, my pee would get dark if I drank over 20 drinks or so a day. High blood pressure medication won't work while drinking, I had bp in the high 100s low 200s all the time the last six months I was drinking. I was asked by a doctor whether I was having a heart attack when I wnt to the ER to get antibiotics for an eye infection. Depression meds like SSRIs don't work either. I have major depression and was drinking so much I didn't realize the fluoxetine was doing nothing. Anyway I detoxed by titrating down my drinking every few hours but I went too fast and started to getting close to seizing. My wife took me to ER and they put me on a vitamin/ativan drip and discharged me 12 hours later with some ativan scrip.

3+ years later I don't take bp meds, depression med is changed to 60mg duloxetine (cymbalta), and working well compared to my prior state of mind, though sadly there's no cure. I don't have any permanent damage to my liver or pancreas at all. I did try rehab but I quit pretty quickly because there was really heavy pressure to practice AA, which I didn't want to be involved with at the time.

I'm glad you chose not to drink even though your detoxing other stuff too, which is really rough. I dunno maybe this is a moment of clarity for you, even if it turns out to be a little long, slow, and bumpy ride.
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Meanwhile there are very good meds against liver diseases on the market but they are so expensive, even in the US, nobody can afford them. An Austrian invented a med that really cures HEP-B ("Sovaldi"). You have to take it for 3 months (costs between 30000 and 50000 Euros and it works. Im sure there is also something that can make your liver better working. But - you have to be compliant of course. Pls ask your Hepatologist, and if he hasn't any info change your doc.

JJ
 
JoEhJoEh said:
Meanwhile there are very good meds against liver diseases on the market

An Austrian invented a med that really cures HEP-B ("Sovaldi"). You have to take it for 3 months (costs between 30000 and 50000 Euros and it works.

JJ
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Of course it does. Fuckin pharmaceutical companies.

"Born into a world where it's cheaper to die than go to the hospital"

I'm already out about 5k from all the tests they did. I do not have health insurance.

Can someone explain to me why an ultrasound on my liver costs $2500? It's literally just someone putting a machine on my stomach and looking at the pictures... I could do that on myself for free...
 
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