Are Gastric Ulcers permanent? Are they linked to Cirrhosis?

[Ewife]

My husbands recent endoscopy and biopsies have shown he still has gastric ulcers and recommends PPI for 8 weeks. He has been on PPI for at least a year. I'm worried that the transplant team he is under might doubt that he is abstinent from alcohol when they see this, hence my question about it being linked to cirrhosis? He has been abstinent for nearly 2 years, and off the troublesome medications he had been living on for over a year too.

I'm needing some encouragement - we are at Leeds again for check up next week. I'm paranoid that they might delist him, after a comment they made last time that 1 of his blood results is slightly better, and if it continued they might reassess him. However, all his other blood results are seriously out of range, so it's hit me that without transplant I still would have a very sick husband. I don't think I could go through all this stress again, I know he would have to be constantly monitored and the threat of being ill enough to relist would be always over us. We've been through such difficult times recently, I just need to get this over with and know that my husband is on the right track to survive. He is only 42.

Sorry for the rant - it's been brewing for a while......😖😂

Ewife

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[AyrshireK]

They will only delist him if he is stable enough and he no longer meets the criteria for transplant i.e. if his UKELD score was to be below 49 which is the minimum required for transplant listing (unless liver cancer was in the picture). UKELD is a calculation using figures for serum bilirubin, serum sodium and serum creatine plus INR.

My hubby was delisted in 2015 but his bloods are near normal and he was only borderline on UKELD when listed the year below.

Katie

[Ewife in reply to AyrshireK]

Thanks Katie, I've just found his letter from when he was listed. His UKELD score was 57, so like I suspected, he'd have quite a way to improve before things change. I think his bilirubin has improved since then from 43 to 40, but everything else remains the same. I've tried not to look too much at his individual scores and results, but lately I've been worrying more about it all. Probably just the state of my nerves to blame.

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