So you’ve been scanned and all for lesions/cirrhosis? You might not have lesions, but your liver enzymes are probably out of whack..or where out of whack. Did they check those out?
The good news about the liver is that it can heal itself and return to normal as long as you don’t get to a certain point. If you get scarring, that shit won’t heal but you can stop more of your liver from scarring by laying off the booze. But once it gets to a certain point, you have a life and death issue on your hands.
One of my best friends died about 4 years ago. He was only like 37 or 38 and his liver was shot to hell. Booze killed him. It was an agonizing death and I wouldn’t wish it on anyone.
No scan. My dad had to quit. He's lucky to be alive. Liver repaired. I'm soon to be 35
I’f you haven’t been scanned, then how could you know if you have lesions or not? In any case, laying off (if you’re drinking more than 1-2/day on average) will only prolong your life.
Some people have to quit entirely because they aren’t able to only have one or two. For those folks, it’s all or nothing.
I was one of them. But after having layed off for so long, it was then easy to have reasonable limits when I do choose to drink.
But that was even risky. I could have been a person who can’t control my intake and so coming back off the wagon could have put me right back where I was. There was only one way to find out and I took the chance. I landed in the right side of the line, but risking it was stupid on my part.
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