Fortunately, alcohol addiction treatment is an available, effective option when for assistance with quitting drinking. Logically, the first thing to do when liver problems are suspected is to immediately quit drinking alcohol. However, this can be much easier said than done. Chronic alcohol use changes the chemistry in the brain, leading to alcohol cravings, dependence, and even addiction.
On the bright side, help is available. Alcohol addiction treatment can get you well on your way to liver health by helping you detox from alcohol in a safe environment while keeping you as comfortable as possible.
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Review Us. Call Admissions Contact us today to take your first step towards recovery. The Blackberry Center. Prev Next. The same process happens in the liver. As cells die, scar tissue develops. This is known as liver cirrhosis. If excessive alcohol use and scarring continues over time, eventually the liver can become too scarred to function properly. Some alcohol-related liver damage can be reversed if you stop drinking alcohol early enough in the disease process.
Healing can begin as early as a few days to weeks after you stop drinking, but if the damage is severe, healing can take several months. Dr Ghazanfar Ali is a leading gastroenterologist with many years of experience in treating liver disease. He specialises in liver diseases, irritable bowel syndrome, dyspepsia, reflux disorders and diarrhoea and constipation. He currently practices general gastroenterology with a special interest in hepatology.
Dr Ali qualified in in Pakistan, where he completed his initial training before arriving in the UK, where he was trained in both general internal medicine and gastroenterology By Dr Ghazanfar Ali Gastroenterology.
He specialises in liver diseases , irritable bowel syndrome , dyspepsia , reflux disorders and diarrhoea and constipation. Dr Ali qualified in in Pakistan, where he completed his initial training before arriving in the UK, where he was trained in both general internal medicine and gastroenterology.
During his education, he worked in many hospitals across the Northwest and went on to specialise in gastroenterology at Royal Albert Edward Infirmary, Wigan in Whilst being a consultant gastroenterologist, he also works as a tutor, teaching third-year medical students at the University of Manchester medical school and is also a qualified coach and mentor. This year, Dr Ali was proudly awarded the Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland - an international benchmark of professional excellence.
He has been the clinical governance lead for gastroenterology and has a strong interest in service improvements and enhancing patient care.
See all Gastroenterologists. For further information, read our Privacy Policy. Extremely heavy for 7 years, all day every day, up to over a 1. About 50 hospital visits later for detoxes and things of the such, in October of I was admitted for my last time with acute liver failure.
I was told a couple weeks prior to that, that my liver was failing after I had to go to the hospital because a little scab would not stop gushing blood.
I was in the hospital for 3 weeks. And then as soon as I started becoming a little better that a transplant was imminent. It took me about four full months before I finally started feeling a little better. Hospital trips countless of them that they had to drain about 5L of fluid from my abdomen.
I am feeling much better I love life right now and everything is going great. Nothing can bring me down really. I have an appointment on June 20th, which was supposed to be the 6 month mark are they run more tests and figure out how my liver is actually doing. Just really needed to get this out there.
Thank you so much for sharing your experiences! We wish you all the best and look forward to hearing the update from your appointment! I blend 3 apples? Liver bounces back ASAP. Great article. Some things I would add to the food section: Add fresh lemon squeeze to water. Turmeric works wonders especially fresh juiced. Fresh dandelion will flush your liver. For supplementation N Acetyl Cistine helps create glutathione and speeds up detoxification.
The first 3 days are brutal. Try to make this days have no work or responsibilities. Lastly- sweat it out. This speeds up the process. A sauna or just the sweat from exercise is really beneficial. To anyone reading this: I drank until I bled out internally. Blood replaced twice from bursting varices, parecentesis, life support 4 days.
Woke up with horrible HE. ALL of it. End stage liver disease meld score I kicked the vodka, put in the emotional and physical work, went to meetings, changed my diet. Life is so much better. My liver is damaged, I have cirrohsis amd I still have some symptoms but I can live with it. My meld is 9 now, no transplant.
Whomever is reading this and is worried, do whatever it takes, no matter what, and it will slowly get easier. I couldnt go 1 hr in any day without a drink. Yea for you too. Put in the work and you will be rewarded. God bless. Oh my goodness I am so glad to be reading this…. It gives me hope.. I dont even know my Meld score yet but the doc thinks Im in end stage liver disease and I have been scared to death now for a week….
I am making some drastic changes but I thought it was still too late…. So glad that this article resonated with you. Wishing you the best as you continue on your recovery journey! I am stage 4 liver fibrosis. The next stage is cirrhosis. All of the posts are giving me new hope! Thank you, Drew! You give me hope that my liver will heal itself. Today is day 1 for no alcohol. So far so good. I have a little nausea and a slight headache.
God Bless you all!. God Bless you, good luck on your path to being healthy. Thank you for posting, you are sure to inspire others. Drew Ty for posting this positive note. Im not a drinker but was somehow infected with the hep C virus. I mean none. God bless u for coming forward my Bro is currently in hospital drank all his life he was diagnosed with the deadly sclerosis.
I was just like your wife, my ammonia level was very high I have no memory of any of it. I had to be intubated for a week during the worst of it but eventually my ammonia level dropped far enough that I woke up and eventually got well enough to go to a rehab hospital which it took me 6 weeks to get back to being able to do everything for myself again.
It was a lot of hard work. I was diagnosed with NASH. Which is basically cirrhosis of the liver not caused from alcohol. You see I have never been a drinker. I come from a long line of alcoholics and never wanted to go down that road myself. Drew Thank you for you comments. Wondering if you can email me directly? I have a few questions about how you were able to get your MELD score down?
I had a tumor and now they are talking about transplant and I am searching for some advice. Long time drinker here , it us to be as soon as the clock reached I had to start drinking vodka then a couple years go by then I made a decision to after 5 then to were before bed to help me sleep and then I quit the vodka, rum and now to wine for a couple months now with the help with menatolen..
I was diagnosed with end stage liver disease may 24 I was told the amount of ammonia in my brain which was at I was a day away from expiring, so they flew me to another bigger hospital which I know now as a hospice last day alive hospital. I looked like I was pregnant with 5 babies and yellow as the sun. I was given 19 banana bags full of vitamins cuz I was dehydrated like a cactus in Arizona.
I stayed in the hospital for almost a month recovering. I stopped cold turkey with no addictions and no suffering. I feel good and glad that I got a second chance.
Thank you for sharing your personal story. Wishing you the best as you continue your sober journey! Therasa jack plz share your food and supplements after you diagnosed as end stage It will help my father. Had been dringking almost ten years. Hard drinks. Last night i had weird stomach pains.
I really hope i can stop drinking. I havent seen my doctor yet. My dad died of liver cancer two years ago. Thank you for sharing your story! You can stop if it something you want to do! Curious of your progress. My family drinks daily so i followed suit.
Weird allergies and now right abdo pain qith right shoulder ache. This gives hope to us who have the same disease. Thank you all for sharing your inspiring stories. Almost 6 months sober. It seems like an entire new life. I had some liver damage at the time I quit, now going back for follow up testing. I have high hopes, but am still a little worried. Today, I had bad cravings, which is rare for me. Your blog helped me with a little inspiration from the other posters.
Great job on resisting the temptation! Wishing you the best as you continue your sobriety! Feeling pain in my right lower rib area. Im sure it is liver problems. Ive cut back to 2 nights a week of drinking, but after reding this Im gonna stop. Might not be for ever, but I will make sure to put my health first. Thank you all for your above comments.
I really heard all of you, loud and clear. I started feeling sickly like just weird, I looked like hell, my legs and feet would swell and then go down so would my abdominal section I decided to go to the hosp where they pumped me full of IV fluids, but all that did was make me swell all over, they put me in a dounut shaped thing to take pics of my abdominal section which I was then told was full of ascities, they said I had internal bleeding too, they wanted to do a blood transfusion I said no to that, I went home and quit drinking right then havent touched a drop since.
I was swelled up for many months after that and had to keep getting drained which I did, I was put on iron pills and water pills, FINALLY I stopped swelling up because I started on a all protein diet and I bought Super Albumin tabs which I still take now, they work to stop your ascities.
I am now back to weight lifting an jogging again like I used to do before I became a heavy beer drinker and I feel great again!! So do your own research on liver probs because had I not done that I wouldnt be as well as I am now, thats how I found out that having low albumin levels will give you ascities, so you have to switch to a high protein diet to get your liver to start making albumin again and the super albumin supplement will also help with that, one you get that under control your ascities will go away and only then can your liver begin to heal itself.
The docs wont tell you all this stuff but I wil beause I lived it. And for Gods sake never drink again once you get back to normal,. Thanks so much for this insightful information. Best of luck as you continue on your sober journey! Thanks for the hope CJ, can i go job? Am habving mild to moderate asitice and dr told me to take high protein diet…. It is sad Glad some of you pulled through to have another chance. Drank daily for 25 years, towards the end of this decades long binge I was drinking from the minute I woke up til the minute I went to sleep.
I am very athletic and have a high pain tolerance so I never felt any pain but one day I stared having tremors, they got so bad I had to hold a drink with two hands. Finally the drinking ended when I collapsed in seizures. I bit my tongue so hard and also gave myself a concussion from falling so hard.
I was in intensive care for 5 days at 2 different hospitals. Woke up finally at the second hospital two all sorts of tubes and wires coming out of me. Never saw it coming. I was always very fit. Ran or walked 7 miles a day, lifted weights anything to stay fit so I thought I was safe.
The weirdest thing about sobering up is now my balance and coordination is worse, I have to re learn everything. That and now I have to face my own mortality rather than laugh at it.
I just found out I have liver disease. Also everytime I stand I have to a go to the bathroom. I will fight to get better.
I hope things are improving. Change your diet high protein increased vegetables and learn to love lemons and grapefruit. Not one doctor told me to change my diet or increase water intake. I learned this online on sites like this. I have drank daily for about 20 years or more, my father was an alcoholic, died of heart failure at I was diagnosed with stage 2 liver disease. I am on Ursodiol 2ce a day and vitamin E. My drinking is off and on. I can stop for weeks and then start up for weeks befor I stop again.
I worry a lot about it but not enough to stop completely. I have a cyst on my liver that is slowly growing.. I pray for the strength to stop completely. I love my family. I have no trouble at all quitting cold. This would be a good time to get a medical marijuana card if I were you.
I just found out my liver enzymes are elevated Im 47 I do not drink I am diabetic Im worried I go back for blood work in 4 weeks. I have the same thing going on. Been drinking heavily on and off for years, my liver enzymes were elevated at a I was told to stop drinking for 3 weeks and get an ultrasound of my liver and another blood test after the three weeks. Well I just found out today that my liver enzymes are elevated 64 and I drink a bottle of wine everyday for the last 3 years.
Plus I started drinking when I was I see my doctor tomorrow. I know I have to quit drinking and that scares me. I hope I can do it. The thought of being at a bad stage of liver disease is really scaring me. I hope it hits me like a brick, and I will have 2nd thoughts about drinking. I felt the same way you described. I read a book by Allen Carr the easy way to quit drinking and it really helped. I dowkoaded it on my iPad and have read it twice!!
Blood work said ast and alt Wishing you the best, Nell. We recommend communicating with your care giver to ensure there is nothing to worry about. I have been drinking at least a bottle of red wine every day. Been doing this for over 30 years! I just put some wine down the sink and have decided to get clean. I know I have liver disease and finally have decided to do something about it.
Wish me luck. I really cannot continue like this. Hi there I have been drinking for the last 30 years — initially just beer and an occasional vodka but drinking almost everyday Slowly my alcohol consumption kept increasing till for the last 5 years its pretty much been measures of vodka or pints of beer everyday. One day i woke up with a pain in my lower LEFT ribcage which I ignored as a bruise — but it did not go away. I started reading up and realised it was an enlarged spleen.
Further reading on causes of that made me realise that i might be at the early stages of liver disease — i had no swelling in my abdomen, no pain or swelling in the RIGHT lower ribcage, no bleeding, no blood in vomit or stool.
But I did realise that i could be suffering from liver damage as i was suffering from other symptoms like loss of appetite, weakness, a bit of muscle loss, itchiness and insomnia could not sleep when i stopped drinking. I was afraid to go to the doc lest my family find out — so i took charge of things in my own hand. I have stopped drinking completely based on will power alone and changed my food habits to include a protein rich diet.
I drink 4 liters of water a day and not a drop of alcohol for the last 10 days. I am going to join a gym but am waiting for a month so that at least some bits of the liver might be better and help can someone advise me that if i have stopped drinking completely and lead a healthy lifestyle for the next six months, do I still need to get a full diagnosis?
Now or wait till my liver improves a bit? I hope to get to full recovery in the next 6 months or so. Dean, we would definitely recommend contacting your care provider for advise regarding whether a checkup is necessary. Best of luck to you, thank you for sharing your experience, and thank you so much more for your work towards a healthier you!
Dean , checking on you…. We are similar in respect to consumption and illness…. Hi, I get a yrly physical every year and everything comes back normal except my cholesterol Always a little high but this time was my liver that came high, I get a call from dr office to stop drinking and taking Tylenol which I rarel take, and to go back in a month for more blood work, should I be worried?
As I use to be a heavy drinker 10 yrs ago. Dora, only your care adviser can tell you whether something is going on. We wish you the best with your blood work, and try not to worry! It has been inspiring reading all your comments. I am on day 3 being sober. I started as a casual drinker but have been a daily drinker rum and cokes about 5 every night for more than 15 years.
I have to say even on day three, there are no more shakes when I wake up, I can think clearer and am able to say good night to my son vs being passed out. Only issue so far is headache. Thanks for sharing your stories. This is correct, these supplements help support the liver, the only thing else I can suggest is water, 2 to 3 quarts a day, clean water in a BPA free container or water from a glass container, Avoid water thats been left in the sun on a pallet as some stores do here in the south where the temp soars in the summer they will put water on sale outside near the entrance, if you leave a bottle in your vehicle in the heat for hours , dispose of it.
Avoid city water due to the chemicals that are added to it, avoid city water for tea and coffee. Stop your water consumption hours before bedtime so you can reach REM sleep uninterrupted. Best of luck to all, Happy New year. Every year a bit more. Weekend binge, weekday evenings. Saw the doctor, liver function is normal but ultrasound showed mild fatty liver. Lee, thank you for adding to the discussion, and thank you more for your commitment to life, and a healthier you! Thank you for this article.
Just heat slowly. I strain it in my cup, otherwise you get a mouthful of spices! You can add a tsp of honey to sweeten it if you like. A bottle of wine a day was nothing, so I started adding vodka to my alcohol diet. It just kept taking more and more to not even get to where I was trying to go.
In addition to starting to drink earlier in the day, my tolerance level is what scared me. I am going to get my blood work done this month and will pray for a miracle. Because at the rate I had been going, it would surprise me if there is no damage done. Fate brought me to this site because I am going to a concert tomorrow night and I was already wrestling with the demon spirits in my head about exactly what I was going to drink, when I was going to start, and how much.
Thank you for the impetus for staying sober.. So glad that this article resonated with you! Congratulations on your commitment to a healthier you! So maybe on weekends? That part I really enjoy-. I have been drinking heavily my whole life since the age of I am currently I had an ultrasound and was diagnosed with fatty liver and was told I should quit drinking. I struggled for awhile and finally quit drinking 3 months ago. Zero alcohol. I feel completely better, although, I did notice that I started to crave eating junk foods.
I think maybe I need to give it more time and keep doing the right things not drink alcohol. Its heading in the right direction, but not as quickly as I would like it to. Maybe I need to make changes to my eating habits as well.
That is definitely significant improvement, Todd. We are glad you are working towards a healthier life one step at a time. I binge drink on the weekends generally. Some weekends I just have a few beers and are ok others not so good. Great to hear the power of the liver to regenerate. I started binge drinking regularly when I was 26 so looking to make some changes. We are excited to see this desire to make changes for the better, Dave! I drink hard liquor for about 15 years and it took a major toll.
About 8 months ago eye doctor said that going by the numbers that I only had 1 to 3 years left to live without a transplant. So I want to eat healthy and live longer if possible. We are grateful to know that you have been focusing on a healthier you, Rusty. We wish you and your family happy holidays. Hi ive got cirroses of liver had it for 16 year now my bloodtests come back normal now ive nevertouched a drink for 16 year some times at the right side of rib cage i feel like a small pain some times as though some 1 is poking me had scans said its just muscle docter said if i stay alcahole free i should live a normal life only thing people got to worry about with alchol cirhosis is that cancer doesnt set in you just keep your fingers crossed and hope.
We are glad to know that you are doing well, Mark! Thank you for your best wishes, and happy holidays. My problem is I am in a wheelchair and mostly bed ridden can not walk for 15 years now!
I have had 4 Myocarditis and Pericarditis in 4 years. I had a Pulmonary etubulation and went into a coma for 1 month went to the other side and they resuitated and brought me back but hospitalized for 3 months! I was on Immunoglobin for 10 years twice a week from am to pm and prednisone mg for 10 years and no calcium pills!
Plus mg of fentanyl and 2 Statex of 20mg every 4 hours on top of the 65 pills and Methertrexate every week!
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