Looking for Folks with Liver Disease and/or Anesthesia Challenges

[SqueakyWheel&Ethyl 160]

Today is my Day 10 post-op. I went back to work yesterday, prematurely. I tolerated the surgery well and am adapting to living with a feeling of heartburn in my sternum with each swallow. AND, for now, I'm okay with all that. I'm having a hard time getting the anesthesia out of my system. Historically, it's taken months after general anesthesia for me to feel 'normal' again. Thanks to my liver disease (PBC and NASH), my liver drags on processing toxins. I rarely drank before I knew I was sick, because one drink would make me really buzzed. Dental numbing would last hours longer than they would tell me to expect. Pain pills were always knocking me out. With some out-patient procedures, there were several times they were about to admit me because they couldn't get me to wake up.

This forum is great for offering support to us. I hope I can meet others with liver disease (especially PBC or NASH) and those with problems with anesthesia to compare notes with and share helpful hints with.

[SqueakyWheel&Ethyl 160]

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Wow. Really?

[kalai 0]

Today is my Day 10 post-op. I went back to work yesterday, prematurely. I tolerated the surgery well and am adapting to living with a feeling of heartburn in my sternum with each swallow. AND, for now, I'm okay with all that. I'm having a hard time getting the anesthesia out of my system. Historically, it's taken months after general anesthesia for me to feel 'normal' again. Thanks to my liver disease (PBC and NASH), my liver drags on processing toxins. I rarely drank before I knew I was sick, because one drink would make me really buzzed. Dental numbing would last hours longer than they would tell me to expect. Pain pills were always knocking me out. With some out-patient procedures, there were several times they were about to admit me because they couldn't get me to wake up. This forum is great for offering support to us. I hope I can meet others with liver disease (especially PBC or NASH) and those with problems with anesthesia to compare notes with and share helpful hints with.

I have Pbc and did the operation