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ScottFromWI I'd be grateful your liver is healthy despite your drinking. It's a pretty amazing organ but there are always limits as to what it can take. Don't find out the hard way, right?
Exactly.
The only way to keep your liver healthy- or get it there again, as I did- is to not drink. Ever.
I was on the brink of cirrhosis- truthfully, I am shocked that I hadn't crossed the line because drs told me I was infinitesimally close three years before I quit (!!)- in Feb. I got all of my stats retested around 90 days and was smack in the middle of normal on everything. Don't know where in that time period things "cleared" but I am never going back to the dark side.
Again, there is no insurance about what can happen to our livers, even in sobriety. I know of more than one person who had been sober quite awhile and then had liver cancer and/or a transplant. By that point, not alcohol related per se....but previous abuse certainly can't have "helped."
Stay sober.
Good luck.