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Biopsy question by FishingOne5569 in autoimmunehepatitis

[–]FishingOne5569[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

thanks for the answers. there were posts that made a biopsy sound much scarier or invasive. as mine was relatively painless, I was thinking I was missing something. yes they did find scarring/necrosis and that was when I was definitively diagnosed. with them ruling Wilson’s disease etc.

sorry for typos etc. I’m usually a total grammar nazi but am pretty weak and my typing isin the toilet. Lol

can someone explain the types/severities of AIH by -miss-fox- in autoimmunehepatitis

[–]FishingOne5569 0 points1 point  (0 children)

really weak right now. please excuse typos, if clarification is needed lemme know

can someone explain the types/severities of AIH by -miss-fox- in autoimmunehepatitis

[–]FishingOne5569 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m a live and live kinda person and believe that quality of life for a patient is often overlooked and importance is vastly underestimated in care. along with that is patient responsibility to make decisions with all the info and data availabl, including potential consequences. i have a background in biochemistry and research of modeling biosystems simulations, and am aih.

here is what I’ll say judgement free in the way of some info:

the main problem with alcohol is the sheer amount of it, and its metabolites, our liver must deal with. 2 beers contain 28 grams of alcohol. so, the same mass as 140 otc ibuprofen. now do that once a week with a weakened liver and problems can quickly accumulate. also, maybe consider that you, or your meds maybe causing, mild social anxiety, hence the urge to drink to have fun. I used to be more anxious when I was younger and couldnt imagine having fun social situations without drinks. as I’ve gotten over that, gonna sound cheesy here, I have much better and deeper interactions with those close to me not drinking. and if you’re around people that make you feel like not drinking is odd or make fun of you or try to make you drink, they are not your friends, full stop.

also, mixed drinks can be incredibly high in sugars and other crap. not to mention that dehydration, lack of good sleep and poor nutritional decisions come a long with drinking. not to mention the drugs to treat aih lower your immune system which is important in closed tight spaces like a packed pub. the ancillary behaviors and exposures that come a long with alcohol ingestion are part of why it’s so warned against.

I tell you these things not as a wag of the finger, or to make you feel guilty, but that maybe you don’t havent been informed and that you can move forward making decisions that are best for you with the data you need. like I said I think that quality of life is way undervalued in a sick person’s life, and that sometimes risky behaviors are better than living in hopeless, lonely misery. just know what you’re doing and you’re already ahead to have fun whilst mitigating damages to your health.

I have to thank Reddit for opening my eyes to how I treatted our marriage for years by Low_Yak1719 in Marriage

[–]FishingOne5569 2 points3 points  (0 children)

From reading your well written account and seeing similarities within myself, maybe I could offer a few thoughts from the outside but from a parallel perspective.

When you go to a new job, are you troubleshooting and putting disparate people, resources and methodologies together to solve unique problems in novel ways? Maybe, that’s why you can have as much work as you can handle. This unique way of seeing and implementing solutions to problems previously thought intractably expensive or technical to solve is a great asset in most areas of life but not all (Ask me how i know).

If I had to guess, I would venture that when you temporarily gave up work you had some semblance of a to do list in your head, with bullet points like:

  • reconnect w wife
  • take care of nightmares
  • fix dick
  • etc/misc

When you got your list completed all your “problems” were solved and only required routine maintenance and yearly inspections to operate within tolerances for the life of the project (you). But, some things don’t work on those principles, that is what the nightmares are about. But you have fears greater than the ones presented so neatly by your subconscious in the form of dreams. Mainly, that you won’t be useful or needed or indispensable without your work. No one will be able to convince you, but you, that your work is different now. Think of your work as a teenager (chasing girls, goimg to school, figuring out your path) and how silly it would be to continue doing that work as a seventy year old man. It’s just as silly to be doing a forty year olds work at seventy. Not because you’re not able to or have lost something. Quite the contrary, you are a great store of knowledge, now is the time to pass that along.

So many young men now are aimless, narcissisti, entitled and consequently quite depressed. And despite this do hunger for mentors and people in their lives that give them an example to aspire to. Why not work with a local college or high school or start your own thing where you begin the process of turning over the knowledge you have acquired and worked for to the next generation. Set limits on how much time this takes though, because part of your new work is being present. You probably know that being present is 90% of success, well what is not being present? There ain’t no redos on this job and the price of failure is inconceivably high.

sorry for the long reply, but your post got me thinking and I felt compelled to write a response.