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Liver transplant - Let's support each other
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I need some guidance. My husband had a liver transplant in December. He was finally moved to a Rehabilitation hospital last week. He still has a feeding tube, but doesn’t eat, he will take a couple bites of his meal and he is done. He is 6 ft 2”. His lowest weight got to 149 lbs, he was weighed a couple of weeks later he was 170 lbs, last week when he was admitted to the Rehabilitation hospital he weighed 151 lbs. I think part of his problem is that his hands shake & he can’t feed himself. The hand shaking started after he was diagnosed with advanced cirrhosis of the liver in the Spring of 2022. (In 2020 he was diagnosed with NASH, the liver disease advanced in 2021 after a hip surgery & while doing outpatient physical therapy.)
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@jlvr - Welcome! I'm happy that you are joining the conversation. You have mentioned that your husband's hands shake and that you question whether that is affecting his ability to eat. I am not a medical person, just a patient like he is. At only 2 months post transplant surgery he is going to be on high doses of medications which are necessary for his new organs, but they are strong and can have some advsere effects on some people.(like trembling hands)
Since he has been moved to a rehabilitation hospital I do hope thet he is getting the nutrition via the feeding tube. I was 'threatened' with a feeding tube if I didn't eat. It was only sheer willpower and the access to nutritional shakes that I avoided it. Perhaps that might be a possibility when he is released.
It has been a couple of days since you posted. Has there been any improvement?