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Category Archives: Primary Biliary Cirrhosis (PBC)
Third Time Around: PBC, Portal Hypertension, and a Routine Bleed
This one’s for that small audience of folks with primary biliary cirrhosis or other conditions that lead to portal hypertension, which can lead to burst varices usually in the esophagus or stomach, which result in a disgusting and alarming expulsion … Continue reading
PBC, Portal Hypertension, and a Bloody Inconvenient Route
My last post before my world changed on August 28 was “Another Bloody August. Mysteries and Muddles. And Hospitalists” about my second sudden gastric bleed in two years and my second misdiagnosis by Huntsville Hospitalists and GIs who insist I simply … Continue reading
Another Bloody August. Mysteries and Muddles. And Hospitalists.
Silly me. I look back on my post from earlier this month, An Uneventful Day, Unlike Last August 2, and wonder. There I wrote about how on August 2, 2010, I had an arterial lesion burst where the esophagus meets the … Continue reading
At Risk for Esophageal Varices and I Nearly Bleed Out from a Gastric Ulcer: How Weird Is That?
If you’ve read any of my posts on primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC), you were probably surprised by yesterday’s post that there wasn’t some sort of medical muddle involved. Wonder no longer: there was. It’s just that my emphasis was different … Continue reading
Two Novels and Two Liver Transplants: Peter James’ Dead Tomorrow and Abraham Verghese’s Cutting for Stone
I’ve posted several times about primary biliary cirrhosis, a condition for which the only certain cure is a liver transplant, and recently by chance listened to two audio novels in which liver transplants function as plot devices. How weird is … Continue reading
PBC Re-cap by Comment
I like most things about the WordPress template I use for this blog, but if you read posts on the home page and don’t click through to the page for the individual post, you’ll miss the comments. And I had … Continue reading
PBC: No Varices for Me. Well, Just a Trace.
As I noted in my first post on primary biliary cirrhosis, during my annual routine appointment I was advised to have an endoscopy procedure to determine whether I had varices in my esophagus as a result of portal hypertension as a result … Continue reading
Posted in Primary Biliary Cirrhosis (PBC)
Tagged PBC, primary biliary cirrhosis, varices in esophagus
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You Give Your Blood, You Pay the Bill, So Get the Results!
Do you know why I could report my lab scores in my last post? Simple: I tell my doctors I want a print out of my bloodwork results. For years I never considered doing this, but at some point I … Continue reading
Posted in Primary Biliary Cirrhosis (PBC)
Tagged alk phos, alkaline phosphatase, ALP, PBC, primary biliary cirrhosis
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High ALP + High GGT + High IgM + AMA = PBC
So how did I end up getting diagnosed with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) three years ago? It wasn’t easy, believe me. Stop 1: Family doctor, July 2006 My complaint was that I was more tired than usual. The previous year … Continue reading
Primary Biliary Cirrhosis, Basics 3
I’m pausing today before getting into how I was diagnosed with PBC, aka my year of living dreadfully. If you saw the kind comment for my next-to-last post, you probably want to know more about pbcers.org, and I’m happy to … Continue reading
