First time posting w/ stage 4 alcoholic cirrhosis
This is my first time posting here. I am a late 40s male with stage 4 alcoholic cirrhosis. I am now 7 months alcohol free. It's has been a pretty rough 18 months. After the cirrhosis diagnosis I had esophageal problems and was having an extremely difficult time swallowing. Therefore nutrition was an a problem. With my poor nutrition my potassium and sodium levels were frequently sending me to the ED. This also affected me taking diuretics. I am having my esophagus stretched and injected to increase diameter. Nutrition has been getting better the last few months. Throughout all of this I went from 210 to 138. Btw I'm 6ft. No I'm back up to 150lbs and trying to put weight on. My arms are full of broken blood vessels and I have ascite. At the most they were pulling off 8 or so liters a visit. At the most hey did 14 liters in one visit. I am down to 6 liters every 2 weeks now. I had another visit with my doctor at Anschutz today and he wants to see me in 6 months again to see if we need to move towards a transplant or not. Not giving up! I'm still trying to have as much quality of life as I can. Staying as positive as I can. 7 months with no alcohol. I still smoke a little cannabis.sorry for the lengthy post for those of you who read it. Confused, scared, sick, tired and weak.
Thanks for reading,
Joe