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About Me
MarkE
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About Me
I was in the United States Air Force from the Feb 1973 to May 1978 and have a honorable discharge. I have Cirrhosis of the liver and all though I'm still alive today. It has effected my life and personal intrests but I'm living 1 day at a time and with a HP on my side I can do anything.
I was in the United States Air Force from the Feb 1973 to May 1978 and have a honorable discharge. I have Cirrhosis of the liver and all though I'm still alive today. It has effected my life and personal intrests but I'm living 1 day at a time and with a HP on my side I can do anything.
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My best intrest is me joining AA. I have learned a lot about myself.
My best intrest is me joining AA. I have learned a lot about myself.
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Hi Mark. Hoping things are going well for you. Haven't seen you on much but, wanted to say hello and send ya a hug!
Moment of Peace
Hey Mark, how is it today? I suffered with anxiety for maany years anger problems etc. after I quit drinking started smoking more pot to deal with stress & others. Finally asked for help had to quit smoking. Been taking Paxill for about a year and it has help a lot would not consider going backwards. You have a Grate day Peace Shannon
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Close Cirrhosis
I was told of my Cirrhosis 10 years ago and now it's to the point that it never going to get any better ever. So I've asked to be put on a transplant list. Everythings complete except for one more filling in dental then a lower GI.
Treatments
- Lactulose Working / Worked
- Without the stuff, I get crazy minded. If the doctors give it to anyone. TAKE IT. We must have 2 to 3 bowel movments a day. We also have to watch the protein intake per day. You can not over dose on Lactulose so if you need to take it more often like me then do it. It controls ammonia levels and that gets me a ambulance ride and a three day stay at the hospital. I can not run out of it.
- Liver Transplant Working / Worked
- Trying to get one~~~~
Close Alcoholism
I'm a recovering alcoholic who has a history of some 34 straight years of drinking daily and developed cirrhosis of the liver. I can never drink another drop for the rest of my life ever.
Treatments
- 12 Step Program Working / Worked
- With the progam I now have real friends, to many to count.
- AA Meetings Working / Worked
- Thank my lucky stars and my new HP because its been working for 2 1/2 years now.
Open Breakups & Divorce
I'm a 53 year old man that has been married and divorced only once and that has been some fourteen years now. It hurt me but really inside I was an alcoholic and didn't know it then. I had developed a resentment towards women in general wanting nothing to do with them what so ever for the fear of having to go though it again. I got myself talked into going to some AA meeting for coffee. After 5 meetings and talking to other members I decided that maybe I really was an alcoholic and didn't know.
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- Self-help Working / Worked
- I have been sober now for 2 years now and my sobrity date is July 14th 2006. I did it without rehab and now the resentments are gone. Im currently searching a serious relationship.
Open Life After Divorce
I was married 22 years and it turns out that right after the divorce was finalized, I found out about my liver disease.
Treatments
- Lactulose Working / Worked
- Its a day by day thing that I must accept one day at a time.
Open Panic Attacks
At times, my alcoholic mind tends to rather serious panic attacks. Having liver cirrhosis sorta gets me this way. Some good days and some bad ones. This concerns me a lot. I don't know what I can take with cirrhosis. Maybe meditation. I have positive feelings most of the time
Treatments
- Psychotherapy Working / Worked
- Only medicine I take is Trazodone daily but it does just wipe it out of my head. I have stinking thinking I guess you might call it. Hard to accept bad situations that get dropped in my lap. I'm lonely and beside myself all the time. Being the recovering alcoholic that I am, and now sober after drinking over 30 years I just can't remember things well, get side tracked all the time. Trazodone is not working and I have to think about my liver, I don't know what I can or can not take.
Open Anger Management
my problems started a long time ago. seen i was a kid growing up with parents that were alcoholics. i am an alcoholic and sometimes i can hate my self. situations seem to have to be the way i want them to go. if not, i get pissed off and take things out on others.
