New Here....Question

Hey  guys,

Here is the thing.....have been feeling fatigue and dizziness for well over two months.  Went to the ER to get some bloodwork done and the doc came back and said that my haptocytes were very elevated and that he needs another blood sample that it is most likely hepatitis and he wants to see which one.

My background is I am 32 y.o. male and have been an alcoholic for the better part of ten years.  I just quit when the doc told me because I want to live.  Is it alky hep, b, c...... any input would help.

My terminology I knew was off....i just heard him say hepatitis and I panicked. The Dr. mentioned the word elevated so I was unlear of what he was making reference to. He went and checked to see of there was enough blood to make an accurate diagnoses of what kind of hepatitis it was. I guess they ran the normal blood screen and then caught it. he also mentioned that my urine was very dark. not dark like tea but dark none the less. He came back and said they needed to take another vial of blood. So I have a follow up next wednesday with my primary Dr.

 Hello DryHawkeye and welcome to HealingWell. 

Congrats on stopping your drinking.  Even if the results come back good like Connie said .......this is a wake up call.   Continue your sobriety anyway you can.   Read our educational thread in the resource folder at the top of our forum.   It can give you a lot of very good information.  

Hopefully you don't haven't developed cirrhosis yet and can avoid all the ugly stuff that goes with it.     This is one ugly disease .....one that I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy.  

If you have damaged your liver already,  at this point, there's a lot that you can do to change the course of the disease and how fast it will further damage your liver.   So continue to get educated on it as you are doing .  But you need to take heed and do everything within your power to change your life style.  

Keep us updated with the results......take care......thoughts and prayers.....