Cirrhosis of the liver

I'm starting to wonder if I've developed cirrhosis of the liver from the abx I've been taking. Yesterday I was really shakey at lunch. I could barely hold my fork. I thought I was going to pass out and had to excuse myself which was really embarressing.

What are the symptoms of cirrhossis of the liver? Has anyone here had this?

Do liver transplants have a good success rate?

The first thing to do is to get testing done, any time we suspect that something may be wonky or damaged. If their function is good and there are no other signs of damage, then the organs should be fine.

Check the symptoms: www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/cirrhosis/symptoms-causes/dxc-20187350

Because I've mainly seen alternative doctors for my needs, and here in the state where I live, they are not allowed to do blood tests and such, I've not had much testing - so when my eyes started turning yellow, it kind of freaked me out - but it was just my liver telling me I needed to really concentrate on helping it out - not that I had some sort of liver disease. With some targeted liver detoxing and extra care, my eyes returned to normal color and I now know when I have liver pain or pressure, it's time to target my liver yet again with good detoxing.

The shakes like you are describing actually sound more like insulin resistance, which is another problem that we can often face with Lyme.

I encourage you to get some testing done to see what might be going on, before worrying if liver transplants have a good success rate. You could be worrying yourself with the wrong things.

It's not the best tasting mix in the world, but for me it's very effective. This can be found at the bottom of page 2 in our "New to Lyme" thread, in Pirouette's Yeast/fungal post:

In the morning, 1/2 hour before any food, mix:
1 cup fresh squeezed citrus juice - can be orange or grapefruit .
A couple of good squeezes of lemon or lime juice.
1 - 2 cloves of fresh squeezed garlic
1 tablespoon of olive oil.
A few drops of fresh squeezed ginger juice
Do 2 cycles of 7 - 10 days each, with a 3 day break in between the 2 cycles - OR until you see plenty of bile (dark green color) in your stools.

Did you mean the apo-hepat? I know that some here have used it and have had good results.

You can also use dandelion root tincture, milk thistle (some who are allergic to rag weed can't use this, as they are in the same plant family) and others. It may take a combination of things to keep his liver healthy too.

I used to pick what I called a "yard salad" every few days when I knew my liver was sluggish. It was plants that I wild harvested from my own yard (no chemicals are used in my yard where I pick from) and I used chickweed, curly dock and purslane and used a vinegar and oil dressing on it to help my liver as well. There are lots of alternatives and things that can be used to 'boost' liver health.

I'm back on my dandelion root tincture too. =)

Don't overwhelme yourself with those thoughts. You already have lyme to worry about. You went from shaking at lunch to liver transplant success rate. Relax ...take a deep breath... and go get checked. I take 4 antibiotics plus iv my liver is still working...😉

What is the story with insulin resistance? Maybe that is what I had. Is that diabetes? Or problems with the kidney?

gfields said...
What is the story with insulin resistance? Maybe that is what I had. Is that diabetes? Or problems with the kidney?

Insulin resistance is a precursor to metabolic syndrome. It is not in and of itself diabetes but can lead to it. When you have an infection/trauma your body develops insulin resistance as a mechanism to preserve glucose and modulate whole body metabolism so that cells that need glucose to produce NADPH (immune cells, damaged cells) for rapid division and redox functions have priority access. Insulin encourages glucose uptake by cells with insulin receptors so this basically restricts access by making cells insensitive to it. The alternative is protein catabolism => muscle wasting => death and is used as a last resort when the body has depleted it's glucose stores. You can't make NADPH with stored fats which is why this system is in place. This is not the standard understanding you'll get. Most docs consider it deleterious to be reduced at all costs... But it serves a purpose. You'll often hear people say that cancer loves sugar or talk about warburg metabolism as some mysterious anomaly. So the corollary to insulin resistance is that rapidly dividing cells (like cancer/wounds/immune cells) produce their NADPH and then form lactic acid which can be recycled by the body to glucose (how altruistic of cancer... *cough* it's just a wound *cough* a parasite infested wound* ugh). It's all about saving glucose despite needing to use more of it and minimizing protein catabolism. Extending the bodies resources to fight infection and repair trauma when the organism is too injured/sick to acquire new calories. Anyways, how insulin resistance leads to diabetes is when the pancreatic cells can't secrete enough insulin to overcome it so glucose builds up in the blood and basically sticks to a bunch of proteins and ruins them. So there are a mix of things that go into that such as high sugar diets that didn't exist eons ago when this system formed as well as inflammatory damage to the pancreas that decreases its capacity to produce insulin. But to be honest I don't know all that much about the specifics of diabetes and my memory of this is slightly hazy.

Anyways you can check for diabetes/prediabetes, kidney and liver function on basic lab tests. If you're having unusual symptoms i would keep up with a doc for labs. I had a lot of similar things and they all came back normal