Liver damage stoppable but it isn't repairable

“I am a 26 year old male. Basically since I was fourteen I’ve been drinking sometimes heavy and sometimes not. Anyway for the last two years I knew something was wrong, I was always sick and I would drink to cover it up so I wouldn’t feel pain,” posted a man named Jose on Medicinenet.com’s website blog about liver disease.

“This went on up until April of this year. April 23 I was, of course, doing my regular drinking 40 ounces of malt liquor, I don’t remember but I guess I was losing consciousness. So I was taken to the emergency room. Long story short I got out nine days later and my abdomen was filled with fluid and I had a tube hanging out of my stomach for my gallbladder.

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