What are some lingering questions you have?
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Will they put you to sleep
Hi there! Would you mind clarifying your question? Are you asking about a specific procedure? Let me know and I can try to answer your question the best that I can! -Alexa (team member)
How high does the MELD score need to be before you get a liver
Great question. I know off my own personal experience only (I am no physician) with those contacting my foundation that it has been with variations. Depending on your hepatologist and your own personal health condition. There are a lot of variables that do go into this. It would be a great question for you to sit down with your medical team and ask this with Him/Her.
Kimberly Nash
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have stage 1 cirrhosis of the liver. been told meditteranian diet. but am on warfarin blood thinner and this does not allow greens. what to do?
here is some additional information on the Mediterranean diet https://nashdisease.net/diet. If necessary, you can adjust it to fit your specific needs to avoid medication interactions. I hope this is helpful. All my best, Julie (team member)
OMG we ALL went to the same doctor!I was told that I had a fatty liver too, about 30 years ago. The just lose weight was per usual, but not tied into the fatty liver. Nothing was said about things to do for it. Maybe they didn’t have the resources of information available now to discuss ways to reduce the problem. I’m still only a month in with the CT, Ultrasounds and MRI. Haven’t had any CT biopsy yet, just got the referral letter today. Not available at my hospital, so I have to go off-island to get it done. As usual in small town areas, the doctors are disappearing and the Nurse Practitioners are left to take the role. I just thought that I had gas making my stomach hurt. Then they started sending me for another diagnostic procedure every Friday for the past month. Then, I start seeing the words: suspicious, lesions, mass, carcinoma, malignancy… Happy Halloween! Scary stuff!
Try not to be scared. The imaging will confirm what you are dealing with. If you are still in the moderate stages of fatty liver disease, which is now called steatotic liver disease, there is a medication called Rezdiffra that you should ask your doctor about. It is not uncommon for people to feel like they aren't given direction about what to do.
I had liver cancer also and received radiation which shrunk my tumors. It was not a difficult process (the radiation). What is difficult is having a transplant which I had also. So, let's try to avoid that. 30 years ago, even 6 years ago when I was diagnosed, doctors were mostly uninformed about liver disease. That is changing quickly. And what they told me was to lose at least 10% of my body weight, exercise, and reduce my consumption of "added sugar" in my diet to as close to zero as I could get it. Also, they made medication adjustments to ensure that my blood sugar, cholesterol and lipid levels were normal. If you need help understanding how to do all this let us know. I hope that you have been able to connect with a treatment team that is helpful to you. -Sue (team member)
