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[Spiff]

Evening ..some if you may know I've been on this site for a couple of years..I was on and off a drinker wine etc ..normal for spain.Anyway 2.5 years ago during the pandemic I knew that I wasn't right had a blood test ..not good . Fast tracked specialist apt . Different tests set up ..fatty liver diagnosed april 21.

Nov 21 cirrosis without complications etc ..I couldn't take it in ..I was told no scarring didn't make sense..I stopped drinking after Christmas..I know ..but I didn't drink much..

off it straight after chrustmas until Aug..scan showed heterogeneous liver ..consultant still insisting cirrosis..

I paid for a private fibroscan F1 F2..

Here we are one year on KPA 4.28. One happy bunny. FO F1

Why I drank over that christmas albeit a tiny amount is beyond my compression now..I'm so lucky and thankful..

I realise that I should be grateful but just wanted to say uf you get a warning ir your gut tells you ..you need to do sonething please listen....if you have fibrosis or fatty liver as in my my case there is a good chance that you can reverse it ..not gauranteed There is always hope even with cirrosis as members have shown on here going from decompensated to compensated...please keep safe stay positive and live the best life that you can..X

[pizza07110711]

How were you diagnosed with cirrhosis with fibroscan that low?

[Spiff in reply to pizza07110711]

I was diagnosed from ultrasound and Mri only .Blood tests ..which returned to nirmal a few weeks later.

Ultrasound showed polilobulated liver heterogeneous enlarged left lobe. That nov of diagnosis..signs of cirrhosis stated on mri

[Spiff in reply to Spiff]

I was never offered a fibroscan until now thats why I went private..I live in Spain 🇪🇸

[Dolly1001]

Welcome, welcome, welcome! More and more of us are proving that it can be done and we CAN do it! It CAN happen! Congratulations!

I too have gone from F3. To F0! But only after going completely teetotal! Paying strict attention to general health etc., but it can be done!

Now is the hard task! Staying healthy. This might at this stage seem easy, but after such wonderful results comes the suspicion that going out and celebrating your good fortune is in order? Maybe? It’s not! I personally don’t believe there will be a. ‘Third chance’. Or another slice of the cake 🍰😍

Please keep on going, don’t look back! Everyday is a day more you have but others don’t. So don’t waste it.

Congratulations again ♥️🌹

[Hope1011 in reply to Dolly1001]

Excellent new! Even though it must be really hard but I sometimes feel that having liver disease due to drinking can be in a person's hand than having liver disease due to autoimmune conditions. Correct me if I'm wrong. As my condition is due to autoimmune which is a vague diagnosis in my opinion. I would love to do something other then taking the medication to help it.

[Dolly1001 in reply to Hope1011]

Hello there! You are correct. As your condition is autoimmune caused, you would have to, along with consulting your professionals, work out your best possible scenario for your continuing good health. We are all different and one size does not fit all. Which is sad!

I also suffer from an autoimmune disorder, have done for many many years, so you have my sympathy there, however, in my case, it had no bearing on what I did to myself. There was more than drink involved, I had also munched my way into type 2 Diabetes and a raft of other things.

But the reality was, I had to be scrupulously HONEST with myself! At the end of the day, there was only the person looking back at me in the mirror to either blame or depend on! I chose the ‘depend’ route.

If I have to be stuck in this body, & it kinda looks like the good lord has no use for my company yet, then I wish to live as well as possible! No way do I want to spend lord alone knows how long as a broken crock who ‘could’ have done things better, but didn’t.

It’s hard! I can’t tell you how hard! I do not have close ties and no close family - most have passed away now, others fell by the wayside down through the years. It is a true thing, many feel sad or a certain sympathy for a man with a problem, a woman however? Heck no! As an example - one attempt at AA saw me receiving some pretty obscene texts from another member. The police were no help at all ‘oh AA, they have their own personnel to deal with that’ there were no other accessible meetings for me, but because no one wanted a man to feel he couldn’t go to AA (he could have accessed other meetings, something I couldn’t do at that time). I was asked to put up and shut up! That was the end of that little effort. It was easy to fall into ‘poor me’ mode. AA is soooo helpful for some, just not for me.

This is not a sole event, others can tell similar for a raft of things. Got to keep going!

So if I made my health turn around look easy, it wasn’t, maintaining it isn’t, So again, my suggestion is to get to your health professionals, work out what you feel you can do in the here and now, ONE STEP AT A TIME! Be it diet, exercise 2 things I also have to get to grips with, how can you make your medication most effective? Quality! It comes in tins, called “Cans” never seen a canned can’t 😃

I do hope this blurb is permitted

[Hope1011]

thank you! And I hope you for you the very best. Keep going you seem to be doing the right thing. Will power is a must. We all have it just don't know it.