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@rose999, Good Morning. I want to welcome yo to Mayo Connect. I am a volunteer mentor....
share the following link to Mayo's Liver ... www.mayoclinic.org/departments-centers/liver-transplant ... that your doctor "believes that your cirrhosis ... there is a way to take care of your liver ... currently being seen/monitored by a GI/or liver
Support Group: Transplants
Posted: Jan 27, 2018
@techi this is such a difficult dilemma. My first thought was to contact your hepatologist but...
say he thought I might be having a liver ... that was what finally pointed to my cirrhosis ... and she was great, felt that I had cirrhosis
Discussion: Portal vein
Support Group: Digestive Health
Posted: Jan 11, 2018
@leehearn It sounds as if you are doing all the right things. Is the fatty liver...
Is the fatty liver then still at a point ... I wonder because my cirrhosis was caused ... by fatty liver but I apparently had ... cirrhosis for about 10 years before ... that took so long I wonder how fatty liver
Posted: Jan 6, 2018
What you said sounds so much like I am going through but they say mine is...
going through but they say mine is non-cirrhosis ... and showed me the extra vein in my liver ... get back to me so I did think I had cirrhosis ... biopsy so that's when he said it wasn't cirrhosis ... did I had something wrong with my liver
Discussion: Portal vein
Support Group: Digestive Health
Posted: Dec 4, 2017
@techi Lisa, have they definitely ruled out liver, and if so why? I went almost a...
Lisa, have they definitely ruled out liver ... They never considered liver because ... and said he thought it could be a liver ... sent me for a CT and that confirmed cirrhosis ... the problems that had been caused by cirrhosis
Discussion: Portal vein
Support Group: Digestive Health
Posted: Dec 3, 2017
@colleenyoung it’s taken me some tome to think how to respond to this, and even after...
My neurologist suggested liver problems ... there felt that I had probably had cirrhosis ... have alcohol ever again, despite my cirrhosis ... being from fatty liver, not alcohol
Support Group: Transplants
Posted: Nov 6, 2017
@techi Lisa, have they eliminated the possibility of fatty liver? I had cirrhosis fromn fatty liver...
eliminated the possibility of fatty liver ... I had cirrhosis fromn fatty liver which
Discussion: Portal vein
Support Group: Digestive Health
Posted: Oct 5, 2017
Hi @techi, I've been remiss in answering your post, and wanted to assure you that you...
particularly ammonia, bypass a failing liver ... Normally, the liver clears most of the ... But patients with liver failure or cirrhosis ... symptoms and conditions related to the liver
Discussion: Portal vein
Support Group: Digestive Health
Posted: Oct 3, 2017
@jacinta Hi Jacinta, you must feel a huge amount of relief to have an appointment approaching...
Mass General was due to non-alcoholic cirrhosis ... attitude, I wanted to get back to living
Support Group: Transplants
Posted: Sep 7, 2017
@contentandwell, I'm sure that this was quite frightening for you and your family to go thru....
In my case, my PCP noticed that my liver ... referred me on to GI who consulted with a liver ... specialist to get my diagnosis for liver ... monitored for any signs of progression to cirrhosis ... levels were monitored because of the liver
Support Group: Transplants
Posted: Jun 28, 2017
@rosemarya, Rosemary, I asked my surgeon today what percentage of liver recipients development kidney problems and...
my surgeon today what percentage of liver ... department along with being a top liver ... essential tremor but of course it was the cirrhosis
Support Group: Transplants
Posted: Jun 7, 2017
@gailb It was a long road to finding out I had cirrhosis. The first obvious symptom...
was a long road to finding out I had cirrhosis ... our son and daughter were here (both live ... problems the liver does not filter ... high which led to a CT that confirmed cirrhosis ... looked over my info he said I had cirrhosis
Support Group: Chronic Pain
Posted: May 21, 2017
Hi @mollyb1968, thanks for this post! I was thinking about you last week, and I never...
is all so interconnected with the liver ... the hypertension which is related to liver ... and cirrhosis.
Support Group: Liver Diseases
Posted: Jan 16, 2017
Hello mariah1203. I have had diabetes for almost 20 years which led to NASH which led...
years which led to NASH which led to cirrhosis ... of the liver. ... I am 68 They found the liver disease ... due to liver enzymes being high for ... May of 2016 at which time they did a liver
Support Group: Liver Diseases
Posted: Jan 15, 2017
Hi Rosemary, I haven't talked with you for a while and I am not sure how...
said I was stage 4 fibrosis, which is cirrhosis ... told me last month that I was stage 4 cirrhosis ... but my liver was compensated. ... so what makes it change to stage 4 cirrhosis ... instead of, maybe, stage 1 cirrhosis
Support Group: Liver Diseases
Posted: Jan 15, 2017
Hi Rosemary. I am so glad you felt up to hiking and I hope you had...
The ultrasound showed enlarged liver ... anything else, so do I really have cirrhosis
Support Group: Liver Diseases
Posted: Oct 19, 2016
@mollyb1968, I think that you are putting the 'cart before the horse' . Yes, it is...
Cirrhosis is a general term for inflammation ... in the liver. ... Many things can cause inflammation (cirrhosis ... prescription drugs, alcohol, injury, liver ... And inflammation (cirrhosis) can even
Support Group: Liver Diseases
Posted: Sep 7, 2016
Hello coastalgirl, my new transplant friend! As transplant recipients, I feel that we share a powerful...
that we share a powerful bond thru living ... I received both a liver and a kidney ... I lived with a liver disease for around ... 8 years before it progressed to cirrhosis ... and need for a liver transplant.