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Transplants | Last Active: May 21, 2023 | Replies (197)
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Replies to "@gaylea1 You had some very severe ones. I do remember one where I was basically catatonic...."
@contentandwell I was also on rifaxomin which complimented the lactulose pretransplant. Yes my HE episodes were debilitating. Total memory loss. I had no idea what month, what year or what day it was. I couldn't remember my address, my phone number or any important dates. It took me almost a full year to start remembering anything day to day. Post transplant my memory has dramatically changed but limited to only 4 months after surgery. I know that I spent Christmas 2018 on the transplant ward in hospital. and went home sometime in the new year. I then was re-admitted 2 weeks later to have surgery on an artery between my heart and liver and was reopened along my surgical scar and had all my staples administered for a 2nd time. Then I had a blocked bile duct that took 4 ERCPs to implant a stent. I contracted pancreatitis 3 times and if you look it up it is the most painful thing to endure. I was on morphine, tramadol, and other painkillers which I cant remember. It's been a trial to say the least. Today I had a cancerous skin lesion removed from my arm (which developed post transplant) by the plastic surgeon. Pathology results pending. Yes I'm grateful still. I'm alive and soon I will be close to recovery. My one year anniversary is Nov 28th.