Hi there I think the medicine you might be trying to spell out is ethosuximide, generic for zurontin. My daughter was diagnosed this passed november, and has been doing quite well on medicines, with...
Hi Connie thanks for the reply. So I was wondering do you know if its possible for a person with advanced Liver disease to live a few years. I hear the words 90 days with a Meld score of 11 is scary...
Hi everyone I have not been on here in awhile, I just thought I would check in and give an update on my dad. So far he has been hanging in there staying out of the hospital, He has been having a hard...
Thanks for the tips everyone I will ask the Dr about seeing the Radiologist....
Thanks for the reply's I really appreciate them, My dad is currently on Zifaxin 550mg, also he started loosing the weight in the hospital before the Tips and he has gained 10lbs the first time within...
Hi this is Brad checking in again, I had a question regarding my dads accites when he went to the liver doc a week ago they said he was building up fluid again in the upper right part of his lung...
Hi everyone it has been alittle bit since I have been on here, my dad has been out of the hospital for roughly a month now doing relativly good, though within the past week or two he has developed a...
The Gastro doc has said at this time he should not even think about Liver transplant and his meld score was 11 about a month ago....
I just wanted to post an update on my dad, so far he has been staying stable for the most part, though lately he has been very tired, the DRS have had to take him off all sleeping meds since they...
Yes his medicare did pay for it, though he is about to reach this thing called the donut hole i think its called, so I have been checking with the VA clinic to try and get it for him. He is back to a...
yes he is taking Xifaxin, which actually is very expensive 1500 for a 30 day supply, the night before they actually increased the dosage of the lactulose to 3 times a day which obviously did not...
My dad is back in the hospital yet again, he was twitching really bad last night, so I called the gastro Dr and he just said to watch him and wake him up a couple of times during the night wich he...
Hi Mike my dads main problem has been the ascites when he was in the hospital the fluid kept building up around the right lung and his breathing was labored so they put in a chest tube and they were...
My dad is finally home now, though all he wants to do is sleep. I do know that this is one of the problems with liver failure. the weird thing is when he was in the hospital, and the rehab place he...
I just wanted to say thanks for everyone's words of wisdom, My dad finally made it into the Dr yesterday and they did a chest x ray and said the tips shunt is working normally, that they just need to...
Connie my dad did go through those hep c drugs and they didn't make enough of a difference to keep taking it, he was on them for a year in the very beginning. His Liver Dr was talking today that he...
Thanks for all of your thoughts, Connie my dad is 62 and he got Hep c from a former girlfriend and she got him using drugs, He was only diagnosed with hep c about 10-12 years ago. and the biopsy...
My dad is currently in the hospital for liver disease, and it sure has been an up and down roller coaster. This is his third week in there the first issue was fluid building up around his lungs,...