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Old 10-24-2016, 05:44 AM
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August252015
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Originally Posted by ScottFromWI View Post
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.
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