Im glad i found your channel. Im type 2 diabetic and a alcoholic for near 20 years. Im 42 now. I just found out my blood work showed i have a fatty liver. I ts been 2 days without alcohol and i been eating better. Couple week's ago i pooped blood and noticed my feet swelling after drinking. I usually would drink 3-4 times a week and id drink 24-30 beers or a almost finish a 1.75 litter of vodka whenever i drank. I lost my father almost 7 years ago from chirosis. That should of been enough to get me to stop drinking but i didnt. Now i finally realized i need to take action. 2 days without alcohol and better eating and im gonna continue it. I subscribed and your videos will help me keep moving forward
@@diannagreen8830 thank you. I went 6 weeks sober but then started drinking again. Trying again because for the last week I been having sharp pain in my right side mid back. Worried it could be my liver. But tomorrow will be 7 days without alcohol
It took about 30 years of drinking heavily (mostly beer) until my liver went. I was diagnosed of cirrhosis about 5 years ago but have rebounded now to the point that their trying to take away my disability benefits. In that time I had all the usual symptons. I had to get drained of fluid every couple weeks due to ascites and also another exciting thing happened and I developed a massive umbilical hernia that looked like a big tumor protruding out of my belly button and had to have that surgically removed during a very unpleasant emergency hospital stay at the transplant center. But now no more ascites and meld scores are really low like around 7 or 8 so I am recovering miraculously.
oh yeah and they prescribe you diuretics, spironlactone or something like that to make you pee and also sodium restriction like less than 1000 mg per day or something stupid that i didnt follow.
As a nurse and wife of a man whose father died when he was only in 5th grade from alcoholic cirrhosis. It leads to what we call hepatic encephalopathy. If you drink and don’t eat much with it it can accelerate the effects. Eating and getting adequate nutrition can help attenuate your chances of liver failure.
Thank you I pray 🙏 you are doing better, my wife is at last stage cirrhosis She almost died in June 2022 when we found out of her cirrhosis from a fatty liver, She had the fluid drained twice and Variies veins banded The variies veins went away and her meld went from 25 to now 8 as of 5/4/23 The doctor said she can live a long life now that she stopped all the bad habits and behaviors She eats lots of superfoods mainly fruits 🍎 and vegetables and watches her diet, In the beginning a year ago I thought she was going lose her any day , Just one day at a time now thank you for sharing 🙏 ❤
Hi I’ve had a liver transplant in 2014,sep 19 I didn’t know what was what at the end just before transplant,bad ride, the new liver wasn’t well ,seven years of illness after transplant but getting better now 9 years later,I’d did everything you said before transplant with organs been pushed around,then tore between my ribs an grow out my back ,so painful, but doing ok now ,still get really tired an have to sleep but I think I’m getting better, 58 now hopefully the rest of my life will be well 🇦🇺✌️👍
I hear you man... I'm currently going through a spook time... I'm suspecting that I'm going through what you're describing... I'm just waiting for blood results hopefully this week... I was also drinking myself to an early grave... Stay strong... and be proud that you were strong enough to seek medical attention... That's the hardest hurdle...
10 years ago my husband was diagnosed w End Stage Liver Failure.... ......he's still here. Even his Drs. aren't sure *why* He's been getting his belly fluid drained for over a year...once a week, then every 2 weeks . His belly does not swell up as much as it was ..not sure why . God bless you. There's no exact time table, so don't anticipate the worst.😢
Yeah it was 5 years ago for me. I havent needed to be drained (paracentisis) in over 2 years but it was really frequent at first but i guess eventually my liver healed that part of it so yeah theres always hope. Im still on the transplant list but I am good candidate,according to doctors,to come off the list. So yeah my ascites eventually stopped. Wish you well and good luck!
@@dennisrobinson8008 Accumulates in your belly mostly and they would remove anywhere from 2 to 6 liters (think of 2 liter soda bottles) they poke a hole in your side and stick a long needle/probe in there and suck it out while monitoring on a sonagram machine.
Im benge watching your channel, we just found out that my 25 year old son has cirrhosis of the liver and will need a transplant. He just came out of the hospital where he literally almost died on us 😭 He was on lifesupport for 9days and not to long after they released him. Which really pissed us off because the doctors in the ICU kept saying he was going to be transferred to a hospital that does liver transplants needless to say they sent him home in the end. Hes on I think like 8 different medications right now and lactolose is one of them along with an anti seizure, anti depression and so on. Im wanting to learn as much as possible so thank you, thank you for your video's.
I’m happy to do them. It’s such a odd disease. My heart goes out to your son and you. After a year and a half I just finally got some good doctors. They are testing me for Wilson’s disease. A overload of copper. I may have had it all along, never knew it. No one ever checked why I had liver failure. So don’t stop bugging the doctors. Not until you get somewhere. And I’m glad these videos helped. Im here if you have questions.
Thanks for the video mate. I hope you make a full recovery soon. I guess one positive takeaway from this is that you'll never drink again and will have a new lease on life soon, hopefully. Booze is shit anyway. I've been a heavy binge drinker since 19, but thankfully never really got into daily drinking. Having said that, I'm 37 now and my liver is most certainly fatty af. Recently got off the booze and my health and fitness is getting pretty good. If I do drink again I think I'll stick to the light and mid-strength beers, but will obviously have to limit it to special occasions. Anyway, thanks again for the video and all the best!
I feel for you I am 1 year from my transplant and 2 years not drinking. The stories I could tell you and the problems I put my wife through. Also beat you on the fluid pulled 14 liters the first time.
Fasted weight loss program out there lol. Thanks for sharing. I unfortunately need to get worse to get a transplant. I was 36 meld at my worse now 17 needs to be 20
I am 43 and had the start of it at 26. They said I would not live to 40. Well I showed them. Either way it depends on your body and genetics as a whole. I should stop right now and I might have a chance but I doubt I will ever stop even though I have cut down to about 36-around 50 drinks a week. I hear you with your sleep and having trouble walking errr heart issues in my case.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE READ ALL OF THESE POSTS This is where you are headed and not too far in the future. Some folks are hanging in for awhile, which is why they are here to even post, but many more are not alive to enjoy RUclips. Quit while you're ahead. I'm sure everyone here can attest to just how short life is...
Keep trying, never lose hope! It was hard took long time but I finally did it as per plan, limited my drinking habits from daily to only on weekends but no binge drinking!
Hi I as well have been drinking heavy for the past 7 to 8 years mostly (beer) Then went to drinking Voda every day. For the past 4 years. I had a bad stomach ache then started to puck up blood In April I was hospitalized for 10 days. Had to get a blood transfusion and stayed 4 days in ICU. And the remaining days just trying to cope with what the Doctor's told me that I have stage 3 Cirrhosis of the liver to stop drinking and we will see where my liver will be at in a year. I was so scared. Went into a depression. May 31 I turned 50. Now I'm still copping with all this and Im doing my own research. Not as scared. I want to live a little loner
It's a hard road for sure. I don't know what the future holds. But I try to stay positive and keep moving. Staying active and eating healthy. Hi protein diet and I try to avoid fast food. But I hope to have longer. Only God knows the final date. Research is good. Keep going. This disease sucks for sure
@@pennydezsi6073 in this lonely disease it's nice to know there are others that understand. Let me know if you need to talk about it. Take care of yourself. Focus on a goal or hobby if you can.
Also diet and what you combine with your drinking like advil, etc. I hope you heal up my man. That's rough. 2 years is less common. They say on average it is when you drink 10 + years. More women then men.
Be your own advocate. You can now (here in the US) get your own blood panel with liver numbers without a docs referral. The panel will have ranges where you should be.
@@frenchustube Quest Labs. I think they are nation-wide. They have different panels from simple diabetes tests to full lipid panels. I think most are in the $300 range.
@@kendallevans4079 I go to quest diagnostic for my blood tests from the doctors. But I did not know you could older liver panel without the doctor referral. I’m not sure what I should ask ALT, AST,billiburin?
I believe our diets play a huge role in this as well. The GMO stuff we consume is unbelievable! Beer and even many Vodkas are produced with GMO corn and hops, & yeast.
You can get end stage cirrhosis even if you are a non drinker. I have it and it from high blood pressure and diabetes. I often get treated poorly at the hospital when staff assumes I was a drinker. There is a big stigma associated with liver disease. I personally do not judge and don’t care how anyone got it but I am sick of having to stick up for myself when I get short treatment. For example the make nurse asks how long have I been sober and I have to say my whole life. Same nurse takes my blood and because of low platelets blood gets everywhere and then this nurse leaves me on a bloody sheet. There’s no respect to get a new sheet and at least clean me up. I ask for supervisor to get the blood cleaned off of me a new gown and a clean sheet. I refused to be treated badly because of assumptions about me. I’m hoping that everyone can be treated fairly regardless of how they got there.
You are correct. I only drank for 2 years. They put padding on the bed rails because they were expecting me to have withdrawal. For the most part I've been treated well. Some doctors order a drug and alcohol test before treatment. So I get it.
@@Redneckkenobi I still get checked every six months for drinking even though I tell them it’s a waste of time to test me. The worst part is not knowing how long you have. I was told in 2019 that two years tops, I’m still here.
Yeah I get tested every 2 weeks. Waiting on liver cancer screening. My MELD score was in the high 30s in August. Now I'm around 17. But you are right, the not knowing sucks. I was told a year. May 7th will be a year since I was diagnosed. My heart goes out to you. It's not a easy journey.
I'm just a bit confused, did you just say you were drinking about a pint a night? - and you got Cirrhosis of the liver? I thought it was good for you to have a pint a night. When I clicked on this video I thought you were going to say 1 bottle of vodka or wine a day.... not one pint. I'm unpleasantly surprised.
I would imagine he’s meaning a pint of spirits/wine a night, maybe? There is no way you would get Cirrhosis of the liver from 1 pints of beer a night, surely?!😮
Im trying to quit drinking now not doing to good going to try vivatrol quit drinking for 3 years was doing good got stupid when my gallbladder went bad was drinking to kill pain i guess ended up with colitis too been really sick for a while really trying hard this time have to quit girlfriend started worrying i might drink myself to death i am too the colitis has been ruff on me really haven't had much help with it say some prayers for me i need all the help I can get on day 2
Hello, Stop drinking, eat healthy foods and also take longish walks everyday. You need to build up your health in order to fight this a well as prolong our life. Get serious. Do it. Now…not later! PLEASE?!!!!!
WOW..42.. your the 4th person whos 42 with a bad liver including myself.. im 42.. was diagnosed last year. I drank for 22 years strait like a dope.. went in for labs and ultra sounds said i was fine.. year later. Almost died . Smh stay strong.
@@Redneckkenobi see last year i had the bleeding too had to get banded.. havent touched a drop since.. 2 younger kids desent life.. i went back after 6 months. Said id greatly improved liver was kikin at 70 percent and no more swelling and all my numbers came back almost normal ..scan still showed scarring. BUT dont think i realised how lucky i am and i still landscape and construction 55 hrs a week .i go back evry 6 months. Giing back again this month.. your post grabbed me because i had started to swell a bit but it all went away within days of my week hospital stay.. I hope i can keep it that way. Thanks alot man..i pray for your situation to have a good outcome some how.. 💪👍
@@Arif-nv9uk well.. # 1 I dont even let it bother me😁 shit happens..#2 i eat light.. fish chicken ceareals.vegetables. couple hohos here n there. pretty much regular diet minus fast food and booze lol. Treatment wise.. since its only been a year and my livers functioning at 75 percent or so so far.. im just going in for labs and ultrasounds ev 6 months.. no meds at this point anymore.. i work 50 + houes a week in the summer doing labor and landscaping so theres my excercise.. because of this damn disease now they have to watch for cancer.. ill be back in for a follow up this month so so far thats about it.. Hopefully as my liver improved the first 6 months itll hold its own😁
I'm ten years stage 4 all bodily functions are chemically triggered with pills now I don't qualify for a transplant I am slowly dying, I have lived a spoiled and oveprivledged life and expected it wouldn't be pretty seen all my friends die one by one all strokes from drinking. I ran out of regrets long ago .
I appreciate you comment. It’s an odd disease, it doesn’t pick on one type or another. I was never in a privileged life. More proof it doesn’t care what side of the tracks u from. I lived a pretty crappy life. Worked my ass off to be dieing. People ask me why I’m so positive. Well I still have hope because I have never known love and I’m determined to experience that before I die. lol I have a lot of hope
I wonder if you had something else going on. It doesn't sound like you were drinking enough for long enough to get the symptoms you had. It could be, but you sound very unique. Take care.
Im 44,have been drinking for 20 years at least once a week,sometimes twice but not everyday .when i drink i keep going (mostly beer) ,am i a potential cirrhosis patient?
@@manish.pandey i have my liver enzymes tested almost every year.It has been normal so far.So i guess drinking alcohol doesnt make you ill necessarily or it is up to many variables.Personally i cant drink every day i dont enjoy it.But when i drink i tend to drink it too much.I think drinking frequantly is more dangerous for liver.I try not to drink for 2 weeks if i party hard once in a while,let liver rest and repair.
Moderate amounts of booze with occasional drinking habits and proper diet will never harm your body or liver. Toxicity comes when you start binge drinking and that too daily.
I have yes. I don’t remember if it was first, I believe mine was leg swelling. But that could be a symptom. If you haven’t gone to see a doctor yet, you should. They can look at your situation.
Everyone's different, so it's tough to say for sure. Generally it seems like drinking at that pace will take longer than a year for cirrhosis to set in. So... Maybe. But most likely not yet. Still, that's definitely a bad habit, and it will catch up to you at some point. Could be in six months, or a year, or five or ten years. You gotta kick it sometime. Don't wait for a symptom because they usually don't happen until it's too late.
@@Mushu33 thanks man. I ain't touching it after seeing some of these cirrhosis videos. It's amazing they don't teach you this stuff in school. It's a silent killer
@@scotland369 I wondered the same: Why was this never discussed in school? It can happen fast, it seems, and a logical conclusion if you don't want to go through this is to completely quit all alcohol and start taking better care of your health. This is the advice I'm taking myself.
What an awesome journey it has been. Coming across Dr Igudia RUclips channel has been a testimony. Finally got rid of Hepatitis B virus. Thank for your service and dedication, you are a blessing to us Dr Igudia, Gratitude
EVERYONE I KNOW drinks like animals... So did i.. over 20 straight years worth.. im the only 1 i know that got hit in the head with this.. sucks.. and especially when 1 year i was fine just a little fatty deposit and within the next they floored me.. but i think somethings were missed🤔🤨 and this could have been avoided.. they didnt look onto my symptoms like they should
@@johnnymichaelangelo9264 yes johnny if you didn't drink like an animal. This could of been avoided. 😂 I was the same way then my pancreas flared up man that sheet hurt. Make a grown man cry
I doubt he's meaning a pint of BEER... more likely hard tack... I was self medicating with 6 pints of beer ON TOP OF a full liter of vodka a day... for 3 years straight... And now I'm paying for my sins...
I should have read these comment replies before commenting as I was thinking the same thing. The guy said "no not beer" so I am guessing its some spirit. I was thinking a pint of beer a day for Cirrhosis of the liver? I drink that so it got me worried lol - He said not beer so I am guessing some sort of spirit.... that will certainly do it.
@Hispanic American i only have 1 pint of beer a night. I was a bit confused because the guy said he drank 1 pint a night and got cirrhosis. Obviously he means spirits.
@Hispanic American we don't get out of this world alive no matter what. Food .. tobacco..... Alcohol..... Pollution.... People.... Asbestos... Chemicals... Overworked .... Stress.... I can go on and on and on. That's the reality
Im glad i found your channel. Im type 2 diabetic and a alcoholic for near 20 years. Im 42 now. I just found out my blood work showed i have a fatty liver. I ts been 2 days without alcohol and i been eating better. Couple week's ago i pooped blood and noticed my feet swelling after drinking. I usually would drink 3-4 times a week and id drink 24-30 beers or a almost finish a 1.75 litter of vodka whenever i drank. I lost my father almost 7 years ago from chirosis. That should of been enough to get me to stop drinking but i didnt. Now i finally realized i need to take action. 2 days without alcohol and better eating and im gonna continue it. I subscribed and your videos will help me keep moving forward
Thank you for sharing. Keep fighting. Sometimes the bad stuff saves us.
@@Redneckkenobi I'm definitely gonna do my best. I'll give a update as a bit more time goes on
Praying for you 🙏 ❤️
@@diannagreen8830 thank you. I went 6 weeks sober but then started drinking again. Trying again because for the last week I been having sharp pain in my right side mid back. Worried it could be my liver. But tomorrow will be 7 days without alcohol
One day or moment at a time. I pray you will be freed from the desire to drink. And be healed 🙏♥️❤️
It took about 30 years of drinking heavily (mostly beer) until my liver went. I was diagnosed of cirrhosis about 5 years ago but have rebounded now to the point that their trying to take away my disability benefits. In that time I had all the usual symptons. I had to get drained of fluid every couple weeks due to ascites and also another exciting thing happened and I developed a massive umbilical hernia that looked like a big tumor protruding out of my belly button and had to have that surgically removed during a very unpleasant emergency hospital stay at the transplant center. But now no more ascites and meld scores are really low like around 7 or 8 so I am recovering miraculously.
What causes the ascites fluid?
@@dennisrobinson8008 to put simply its basically like an overflow from your liver, the fluid has nowhere to go and builds up in your abdominal cavity
oh yeah and they prescribe you diuretics, spironlactone or something like that to make you pee and also sodium restriction like less than 1000 mg per day or something stupid that i didnt follow.
@@shark619ify that sucks.
My MELD has been hanging around 17 for the past 4 months. The not knowing is the fun part. Not really
As a nurse and wife of a man whose father died when he was only in 5th grade from alcoholic cirrhosis. It leads to what we call hepatic encephalopathy. If you drink and don’t eat much with it it can accelerate the effects. Eating and getting adequate nutrition can help attenuate your chances of liver failure.
Very true
Thank you I pray 🙏 you are doing better, my wife is at last stage cirrhosis
She almost died in June 2022 when we found out of her cirrhosis from a fatty liver,
She had the fluid drained twice and
Variies veins banded
The variies veins went away and her meld went from 25 to now 8 as of 5/4/23
The doctor said she can live a long life now that she stopped all the bad habits and behaviors
She eats lots of superfoods mainly fruits 🍎 and vegetables and watches her diet,
In the beginning a year ago I thought she was going lose her any day ,
Just one day at a time now thank you for sharing 🙏 ❤
You sound very supportive. I hope your wife is doing ok. And you too, I hope you are ok.
@@whitneyanders5945 she’s doing good thank you, one day at a time ❤️🩹🙏 Hope you are doing well also 🙌❤️🩹🙏
can you please share her diet and daily routine.
please i need it , i am also suffering from cirrhosis.
Man I feel you. For me it was my pancreas it almost bursted. I drank for 14 years every day. I'm 28.
I have no desire to drink that poison ever again.
Hi I’ve had a liver transplant in 2014,sep 19 I didn’t know what was what at the end just before transplant,bad ride, the new liver wasn’t well ,seven years of illness after transplant but getting better now 9 years later,I’d did everything you said before transplant with organs been pushed around,then tore between my ribs an grow out my back ,so painful, but doing ok now ,still get really tired an have to sleep but I think I’m getting better, 58 now hopefully the rest of my life will be well 🇦🇺✌️👍
I hear you man...
I'm currently going through a spook time... I'm suspecting that I'm going through what you're describing... I'm just waiting for blood results hopefully this week...
I was also drinking myself to an early grave...
Stay strong... and be proud that you were strong enough to seek medical attention... That's the hardest hurdle...
10 years ago my husband was diagnosed w End Stage Liver Failure....
......he's still here. Even his Drs. aren't sure *why*
He's been getting his belly fluid drained for over a year...once a week, then every 2 weeks .
His belly does not swell up as much as it was ..not sure why .
God bless you. There's no exact time table, so don't anticipate the worst.😢
I am positive. I was told I had 90 days in August, well I'm still here
Yeah it was 5 years ago for me. I havent needed to be drained (paracentisis) in over 2 years but it was really frequent at first but i guess eventually my liver healed that part of it so yeah theres always hope. Im still on the transplant list but I am good candidate,according to doctors,to come off the list. So yeah my ascites eventually stopped. Wish you well and good luck!
@@shark619ify where does this fluid store at and how much do they remove?
@@dennisrobinson8008 Accumulates in your belly mostly and they would remove anywhere from 2 to 6 liters (think of 2 liter soda bottles) they poke a hole in your side and stick a long needle/probe in there and suck it out while monitoring on a sonagram machine.
@@shark619ify The fluid is under the abdominal muscle ( intrabdominal ) or is it under the skin? Do they say what causes the fluid?
i am sorry for your troubles. i hope you have a better outcome and live a more productive and healthier life going forward.
I had a uncle who got sick young after a couple year's like this gentleman he's right it can happen at any age
Im benge watching your channel, we just found out that my 25 year old son has cirrhosis of the liver and will need a transplant. He just came out of the hospital where he literally almost died on us 😭 He was on lifesupport for 9days and not to long after they released him. Which really pissed us off because the doctors in the ICU kept saying he was going to be transferred to a hospital that does liver transplants needless to say they sent him home in the end. Hes on I think like 8 different medications right now and lactolose is one of them along with an anti seizure, anti depression and so on. Im wanting to learn as much as possible so thank you, thank you for your video's.
I’m happy to do them. It’s such a odd disease. My heart goes out to your son and you. After a year and a half I just finally got some good doctors. They are testing me for Wilson’s disease. A overload of copper. I may have had it all along, never knew it. No one ever checked why I had liver failure. So don’t stop bugging the doctors. Not until you get somewhere. And I’m glad these videos helped. Im here if you have questions.
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Thanks for the video mate. I hope you make a full recovery soon. I guess one positive takeaway from this is that you'll never drink again and will have a new lease on life soon, hopefully. Booze is shit anyway. I've been a heavy binge drinker since 19, but thankfully never really got into daily drinking. Having said that, I'm 37 now and my liver is most certainly fatty af. Recently got off the booze and my health and fitness is getting pretty good. If I do drink again I think I'll stick to the light and mid-strength beers, but will obviously have to limit it to special occasions. Anyway, thanks again for the video and all the best!
Prayers to u🙏my husband had liver cirrhosis stay positive it helped him get through it
I gave up drinking 22 years ago
That’s great
I feel for you I am 1 year from my transplant and 2 years not drinking. The stories I could tell you and the problems I put my wife through. Also beat you on the fluid pulled 14 liters the first time.
Fasted weight loss program out there lol. Thanks for sharing. I unfortunately need to get worse to get a transplant. I was 36 meld at my worse now 17 needs to be 20
I am 43 and had the start of it at 26. They said I would not live to 40. Well I showed them. Either way it depends on your body and genetics as a whole. I should stop right now and I might have a chance but I doubt I will ever stop even though I have cut down to about 36-around 50 drinks a week. I hear you with your sleep and having trouble walking errr heart issues in my case.
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE
READ ALL OF THESE POSTS
This is where you are headed and not too far in the future.
Some folks are hanging in for awhile, which is why they are here to even post, but many more are not alive to enjoy RUclips.
Quit while you're ahead.
I'm sure everyone here can attest to just how short life is...
You still drinking with cirrhosis? You on a suicide path, mate...
Keep trying, never lose hope! It was hard took long time but I finally did it as per plan, limited my drinking habits from daily to only on weekends but no binge drinking!
I stop 🛑 drinking hard alcohol.. Now doing green herbs.. Thy solve my drinking problem.
Have you looked if the green herbs effect liver badly or not..as a drinker wanna be a quiter,just asking
Hi
I as well have been drinking heavy for the past 7 to 8 years mostly (beer)
Then went to drinking Voda every day.
For the past 4 years. I had a bad stomach ache then started to puck up blood
In April I was hospitalized for 10 days. Had to get a blood transfusion and stayed 4 days in ICU.
And the remaining days just trying to cope with what the Doctor's told me that I have stage 3 Cirrhosis of the liver to stop drinking and we will see where my liver will be at in a year.
I was so scared.
Went into a depression.
May 31 I turned 50.
Now I'm still copping with all this and Im doing my own research.
Not as scared.
I want to live a little loner
It's a hard road for sure. I don't know what the future holds. But I try to stay positive and keep moving. Staying active and eating healthy. Hi protein diet and I try to avoid fast food. But I hope to have longer. Only God knows the final date. Research is good. Keep going. This disease sucks for sure
@@Redneckkenobi thank you yes it is very hard
I'll keep my head held high and live everyday to the fullest.
@@pennydezsi6073 in this lonely disease it's nice to know there are others that understand. Let me know if you need to talk about it. Take care of yourself. Focus on a goal or hobby if you can.
When you say you drank a pint a night do you mean a pint of beer or liquor?
Also diet and what you combine with your drinking like advil, etc. I hope you heal up my man. That's rough. 2 years is less common. They say on average it is when you drink 10 + years. More women then men.
Be your own advocate. You can now (here in the US) get your own blood panel with liver numbers without a docs referral. The panel will have ranges where you should be.
I did not know that. Where did you go?
@@frenchustube Quest Labs. I think they are nation-wide. They have different panels from simple diabetes tests to full lipid panels. I think most are in the $300 range.
@@kendallevans4079 I go to quest diagnostic for my blood tests from the doctors. But I did not know you could older liver panel without the doctor referral. I’m not sure what I should ask ALT, AST,billiburin?
@@kendallevans4079 i found the test. Thank you. Comprehensive metabolic panel $49.00
Dude only 2 years of drinking.
I believe our diets play a huge role in this as well. The GMO stuff we consume is unbelievable! Beer and even many Vodkas are produced with GMO corn and hops, & yeast.
no sugar and intermittent fasting and healthy keto diet. Your right our diets play a huge role in our health!
Thats ridiculous, gmos are exactly chemical the same as their naturally grown counterparts.
You can get end stage cirrhosis even if you are a non drinker. I have it and it from high blood pressure and diabetes. I often get treated poorly at the hospital when staff assumes I was a drinker. There is a big stigma associated with liver disease. I personally do not judge and don’t care how anyone got it but I am sick of having to stick up for myself when I get short treatment. For example the make nurse asks how long have I been sober and I have to say my whole life. Same nurse takes my blood and because of low platelets blood gets everywhere and then this nurse leaves me on a bloody sheet. There’s no respect to get a new sheet and at least clean me up. I ask for supervisor to get the blood cleaned off of me a new gown and a clean sheet. I refused to be treated badly because of assumptions about me. I’m hoping that everyone can be treated fairly regardless of how they got there.
You are correct. I only drank for 2 years. They put padding on the bed rails because they were expecting me to have withdrawal. For the most part I've been treated well. Some doctors order a drug and alcohol test before treatment. So I get it.
@@Redneckkenobi I still get checked every six months for drinking even though I tell them it’s a waste of time to test me. The worst part is not knowing how long you have. I was told in 2019 that two years tops, I’m still here.
Yeah I get tested every 2 weeks. Waiting on liver cancer screening. My MELD score was in the high 30s in August. Now I'm around 17. But you are right, the not knowing sucks. I was told a year. May 7th will be a year since I was diagnosed. My heart goes out to you. It's not a easy journey.
I'm just a bit confused, did you just say you were drinking about a pint a night? - and you got Cirrhosis of the liver? I thought it was good for you to have a pint a night. When I clicked on this video I thought you were going to say 1 bottle of vodka or wine a day.... not one pint. I'm unpleasantly surprised.
I don’t think he’s talking about a pint of Guinness.
I would imagine he’s meaning a pint of spirits/wine a night, maybe? There is no way you would get Cirrhosis of the liver from 1 pints of beer a night, surely?!😮
You think a pint a night is good for you , where did you learn this?
Im trying to quit drinking now not doing to good going to try vivatrol quit drinking for 3 years was doing good got stupid when my gallbladder went bad was drinking to kill pain i guess ended up with colitis too been really sick for a while really trying hard this time have to quit girlfriend started worrying i might drink myself to death i am too the colitis has been ruff on me really haven't had much help with it say some prayers for me i need all the help I can get on day 2
Hello, Stop drinking, eat healthy foods and also take longish walks everyday.
You need to build up your health in order to fight this a well as prolong our life.
Get serious.
Do it.
Now…not later!
PLEASE?!!!!!
WOW..42.. your the 4th person whos 42 with a bad liver including myself.. im 42.. was diagnosed last year. I drank for 22 years strait like a dope.. went in for labs and ultra sounds said i was fine.. year later. Almost died . Smh stay strong.
You too. Be positive, eat healthy. Don't drink. You can buy more time that way
@@Redneckkenobi see last year i had the bleeding too had to get banded.. havent touched a drop since.. 2 younger kids desent life.. i went back after 6 months. Said id greatly improved liver was kikin at 70 percent and no more swelling and all my numbers came back almost normal ..scan still showed scarring. BUT dont think i realised how lucky i am and i still landscape and construction 55 hrs a week .i go back evry 6 months. Giing back again this month.. your post grabbed me because i had started to swell a bit but it all went away within days of my week hospital stay.. I hope i can keep it that way. Thanks alot man..i pray for your situation to have a good outcome some how.. 💪👍
@@Redneckkenobi this grabbed me also because of the similarities to me.. This does suck but gotta keep rollin.
@@johnnymichaelangelo9264 how do you treat the disease? Do you use natural treatment?
@@Arif-nv9uk well.. # 1 I dont even let it bother me😁 shit happens..#2 i eat light.. fish chicken ceareals.vegetables. couple hohos here n there. pretty much regular diet minus fast food and booze lol. Treatment wise.. since its only been a year and my livers functioning at 75 percent or so so far.. im just going in for labs and ultrasounds ev 6 months.. no meds at this point anymore.. i work 50 + houes a week in the summer doing labor and landscaping so theres my excercise.. because of this damn disease now they have to watch for cancer.. ill be back in for a follow up this month so so far thats about it.. Hopefully as my liver improved the first 6 months itll hold its own😁
I'm ten years stage 4 all bodily functions are chemically triggered with pills now I don't qualify for a transplant I am slowly dying, I have lived a spoiled and oveprivledged life and expected it wouldn't be pretty seen all my friends die one by one all strokes from drinking. I ran out of regrets long ago .
I appreciate you comment. It’s an odd disease, it doesn’t pick on one type or another. I was never in a privileged life. More proof it doesn’t care what side of the tracks u from. I lived a pretty crappy life. Worked my ass off to be dieing. People ask me why I’m so positive. Well I still have hope because I have never known love and I’m determined to experience that before I die. lol I have a lot of hope
I wonder if you had something else going on. It doesn't sound like you were drinking enough for long enough to get the symptoms you had. It could be, but you sound very unique. Take care.
So what is drinking enough to you, some people get cirrhosis in liver problems from drinking small amounts.
Im 44,have been drinking for 20 years at least once a week,sometimes twice but not everyday .when i drink i keep going (mostly beer) ,am i a potential cirrhosis patient?
Yes
No, if your liver functions test are normal. So get it tested, just required a blood sample.
@@manish.pandey i have my liver enzymes tested almost every year.It has been normal so far.So i guess drinking alcohol doesnt make you ill necessarily or it is up to many variables.Personally i cant drink every day i dont enjoy it.But when i drink i tend to drink it too much.I think drinking frequantly is more dangerous for liver.I try not to drink for 2 weeks if i party hard once in a while,let liver rest and repair.
Moderate amounts of booze with occasional drinking habits and proper diet will never harm your body or liver. Toxicity comes when you start binge drinking and that too daily.
@@drcizzEat first
I wanted to ask you when you had your first symptoms did you have diarrhea a lot like yellowish?thanks
I have yes. I don’t remember if it was first, I believe mine was leg swelling. But that could be a symptom. If you haven’t gone to see a doctor yet, you should. They can look at your situation.
That can be associated with pancreatic failure. I hope you’re ok.
@@29sagittarius51 yes i am looking into it. Chronic pancreatitis. Thanks
Ive averaged 4beers/night (rarely ever skip a day) for a year now. Will i likely have any cirrhosis?
Everyone's different, so it's tough to say for sure. Generally it seems like drinking at that pace will take longer than a year for cirrhosis to set in. So... Maybe. But most likely not yet. Still, that's definitely a bad habit, and it will catch up to you at some point. Could be in six months, or a year, or five or ten years. You gotta kick it sometime. Don't wait for a symptom because they usually don't happen until it's too late.
@@Mushu33 thanks man. I ain't touching it after seeing some of these cirrhosis videos. It's amazing they don't teach you this stuff in school. It's a silent killer
@@scotland369 I wondered the same: Why was this never discussed in school? It can happen fast, it seems, and a logical conclusion if you don't want to go through this is to completely quit all alcohol and start taking better care of your health. This is the advice I'm taking myself.
I have Bilirubin.
A pint a night is not a lot. Strange.
Correction just looked it up. That's 8 shots a night. That is a lot.
Plus I didn't know but liver issues run in my family
@Redneckkenobi oh man. You will be fine, tho.
What an awesome journey it has been. Coming across Dr Igudia RUclips channel has been a testimony. Finally got rid of Hepatitis B virus. Thank for your service and dedication, you are a blessing to us Dr Igudia, Gratitude
Genetics determine most of this
I treated my self to a beer the other day , first one in seven years , was horrified when the barman said thats $7
Lol! $7 for 1 beer? That's worse than cirrhosis! Lol!
The doc said my liver is still working normally but I still have cirrhosis,am i lucky or ........any input would be great,im scared to death.
I'm scared I'm in your boat
Luckily we can survive on 25-30% of our liver function. Treat what you have left well.
Depends if it's compensated or decompensated
@@christophermeyersReally?
A pint of what? Certainly not beer!
A pint of beer is like doing eight shots.
How does this happen so fast? Its horrifying how unfair life can be.
EVERYONE I KNOW drinks
like animals... So did i.. over 20 straight years worth.. im the only 1 i know that got hit in the head with this.. sucks.. and especially when 1 year i was fine just a little fatty deposit and within the next they floored me.. but i think somethings were missed🤔🤨 and this could have been avoided.. they didnt look onto my symptoms like they should
@@johnnymichaelangelo9264 Ya its tough, man. Never know how much abuse your own body can take. I'm glad I quit alcohol and illegal drugs by 30.
@@johnnymichaelangelo9264 yes johnny if you didn't drink like an animal. This could of been avoided. 😂
I was the same way then my pancreas flared up man that sheet hurt. Make a grown man cry
@@johnnymichaelangelo9264 It's true, man. This isn't the doctors' fault, even if they did miss some things.
@@Mushu33 ya.. i know that... My own fault🤷♂️ is wat it is
A pint a night??? A pint of beer a night that's nothing
I doubt he's meaning a pint of BEER... more likely hard tack...
I was self medicating with 6 pints of beer ON TOP OF a full liter of vodka a day... for 3 years straight... And now I'm paying for my sins...
No not beer. But still you never know
I should have read these comment replies before commenting as I was thinking the same thing. The guy said "no not beer" so I am guessing its some spirit. I was thinking a pint of beer a day for Cirrhosis of the liver? I drink that so it got me worried lol - He said not beer so I am guessing some sort of spirit.... that will certainly do it.
@Hispanic American i only have 1 pint of beer a night. I was a bit confused because the guy said he drank 1 pint a night and got cirrhosis. Obviously he means spirits.
@Hispanic American we don't get out of this world alive no matter what. Food .. tobacco..... Alcohol..... Pollution.... People.... Asbestos... Chemicals... Overworked .... Stress.... I can go on and on and on. That's the reality