I can understand your husbands frustration. Most people (even the so called professionals) just don't "get it". Only someone that is going/or has gone through this disease can truly understand. You do get tired of someone telling you that you "should or shouldn't be feeling this way". He can't let this set him back and needs to push forward. I personally would be looking for a different doctor. I can remember several times having to go to the emergency room for something and a doctor telling me there was nothing wrong and send me home. The first time it happened I was sent home "because nothing was wrong"....I was back in the ER in 12 hours with bleeding varicies. Doctors need to listen when a patient says there is something wrong....or something just does not feel right. I think for SOME professionals its easier to just discount us and send us out the door than to have to deal with a disease they actually have no idea how to treat. I live in a smaller town that does have a hospital....but my doctors/liver transplant clinic are 1.5 hours away. The local hospital will now listen to me and knows to call the transplant center for help/or they can transfer me there. I personally feel that it's time for the medical profession to get on board with "liver disease" and it's complications. They are going to start seeing more and more of "us" coming through their doors.
Shame on your husbands doctor for discounting how he has been feeling and to make him feel like it's all in his head. Your husband needs to realize this is the doctors problem.
This must be very difficult for you as well....My prayers are will you both. I hope he finds a good doctor that will listen to him and show some compassion.

God Bless

Many prayers for you and your husband. I agree that primary care physicians are not necessarily "up" on specifics of many diseases. They do miss a lot.....and it seems too easy to use the tired old cliche, "it's all in your head".......Sign of a doctor who doesn't know what he/she is doing and doesn't "know" he doesn't "know".....Please tell your husband that if he himself believes that he is sick/tired/and that something is just not right then he would be foolish to go back to drinking. That is slow suicide. So foolish. He needs to do some research into locating a primary care doctor who WILL listen to him. Have him ask the doctors who do his actual eval for transplant to recommend someone and tell them "why" you are looking. When a person has end stage cirrhosis, that doesn't automatically put you at the head of the transplant list. It is a matter of what your MELD score proves out to be. That determines who is and who is not ready to go on the waiting list. BUT, the good thing is that you get the qualifying part of the treatment out of the way and you are then seen regularly to update the qualifications and check to see where your MELD score is as time progresses. Explain to your husband that this whole liver transplant/treatment thing is not a quick thing......For instance, I am 9 years into it and I am still not ready to be moved to the urgent waiting list for transplant because my MELD score is so low. It may stay there and then again, I may become more and more decompensted and be ready for transplant in the very near future........either way, I want to be ready when the time comes that I need the transplant immediately or die. This may not be the ideal situation but it is the way it is for the time being. Just way too few livers to go to way too many in need to do it any other way. Hugs and prayers to you and your husband.
CarolLentz

I think that doctor is awful for what she said. However, your husband chose to do something even worse-drink. He is damaging his liver even further. He needs to stay the course and continue to see a liver specialist. Primary care doctors ARE NOT LIVER SPECIALISTS. They know very little about the ins and outs of cirrhosis and the complications.

You cannot judge a book by its cover. She cannot possibly know what his liver condition is without bloodwork, ultrasound, MRIs and Ct scans!!!

Today is a new day. Throw out the alcohol. Talk to your husband. My husband did not look sick either - until he went into liver failure...

My prayers are with you. Hep C DOES NOT go away or get better. He needs treatment.

He hopefully put the alcohol away for good this time. And you are right he made that the decision to drink. And possible was just looking for a reason to drink and that was it. We are in the process of looking for a new primary doctor.

Oh and i told him, well you showed her didn't you? She says your fine when you know that your not so you decide to hurt yourself?????? Yeah that'll teach her!

Yep, alcohol is the worst any of us can do to ourselves at this point. It is easy to throw the hands up and say F -IT! I'm gonna die anyway! The truth is that if you stop the alcohol and watch what is eaten then you can live with this disease for a lot of years. Good Luck to You both. Peace, feather