Where do I start. For those of you who remember, I was diagnosed with multiple hepatic adenomas few years back.
I did not come off any significant amount off time to see much of a difference in terms of them regressing or anything.
No, instead I did the most absolute idiotic thing possible and kept using.
Down the road I added 4iu of serostim/genotropin pens and 10iu humalog pre and post.
Please read what end up happening,
August 2018 -
I was on my way home from the gym, and suddenly felt this feeling like I pulled a rib or something. I played it off but it wasn’t getting any better.
I get home and tell my wife I’m gonna go lay down for a bit I wasn’t feeling too great and that I’m feeling this discomfort near my liver region.
Knowing that I had these adenomas that’s exactly where my mind went.
Well I wasn’t getting any better and now was getting fever/chills.
I tell my wife let’s go to the ER we can’t risk this.
We called an Uber and on the way there I just kept felling worse but not much pain yet.
I get checked in and the nurse came with an ultrasound machine to scan the liver. She said she couldn’t spot any bleeding so then they took me in for a ct scan.
Out of nowhere I get one of the most painful sharp pain like someone was stabbing my liver, my wife is about to faint from seeing me like that and I’m yelling to the nurse somethings happening right now inside my liver and to do something.
Then this Doctor came to tell me that the ct scan shows one of the adenomas bleeding but we should wait it out hoping it will stop by itself.
Anyhow I was pretty much out of it from either the sedation or the blood loss don’t remember much.
This was 11pm mind you.
Now it’s 9am and two blood transfusions after, they decided to take me in for surgery to embolize the bleeding tumor through an artery in my groin. That was a success, but they took way to long to take action in fact I over heard one of the main Doctors say “this guy should’ve been embolized yesterday!”
Unfortunately though I had 4-5 liters of blood pooling in my abdomen from all the bleeding. We tried to wait it out hoping the body would take care of it but no.
Was getting worse, the had to insert an NG tube up my nose down to my stomach so it could drain my stomach content.
That was one of the most uncomfortable feeling a human being can experience.
My bowels where pretty much obstructed. Two weeks past and I haven’t ate or drank anything. In fact I started vomiting my own feces from my mouth, things started to get even worse so we decided it was best to go in for surgery.
I had a laparotomy done, they made an incision in my abdomen to drain and suction all the blood.
Surgery was a success.
3 weeks of no food/liquids, a ton of pain killers, a ton of antibiotics and heparin shots, here I was. From my biggest/strongest 255lbs to 200lbs. So weak I struggled doing something as basic as washing my hands.
6 months post op I’m doing relatively ok. Still have multiple adenomas, some of them are regressing but it looks I’ll be needing more surgery down the road.
Plan is resecting the few bigger ones and ablating the rest with Radiofrequency Ablation. Have a great team of Doctors next to me. Doing our next absolute best to avoid a liver transplant.
Hormonally I’ve been off everything since then with my test levels extremely low at 62. I’m actually starting Doctor prescribed trt next week.
Thanks to everyone who took the time to read, I’m truly grateful.
I did not come off any significant amount off time to see much of a difference in terms of them regressing or anything.
No, instead I did the most absolute idiotic thing possible and kept using.
Down the road I added 4iu of serostim/genotropin pens and 10iu humalog pre and post.
Please read what end up happening,
August 2018 -
I was on my way home from the gym, and suddenly felt this feeling like I pulled a rib or something. I played it off but it wasn’t getting any better.
I get home and tell my wife I’m gonna go lay down for a bit I wasn’t feeling too great and that I’m feeling this discomfort near my liver region.
Knowing that I had these adenomas that’s exactly where my mind went.
Well I wasn’t getting any better and now was getting fever/chills.
I tell my wife let’s go to the ER we can’t risk this.
We called an Uber and on the way there I just kept felling worse but not much pain yet.
I get checked in and the nurse came with an ultrasound machine to scan the liver. She said she couldn’t spot any bleeding so then they took me in for a ct scan.
Out of nowhere I get one of the most painful sharp pain like someone was stabbing my liver, my wife is about to faint from seeing me like that and I’m yelling to the nurse somethings happening right now inside my liver and to do something.
Then this Doctor came to tell me that the ct scan shows one of the adenomas bleeding but we should wait it out hoping it will stop by itself.
Anyhow I was pretty much out of it from either the sedation or the blood loss don’t remember much.
This was 11pm mind you.
Now it’s 9am and two blood transfusions after, they decided to take me in for surgery to embolize the bleeding tumor through an artery in my groin. That was a success, but they took way to long to take action in fact I over heard one of the main Doctors say “this guy should’ve been embolized yesterday!”
Unfortunately though I had 4-5 liters of blood pooling in my abdomen from all the bleeding. We tried to wait it out hoping the body would take care of it but no.
Was getting worse, the had to insert an NG tube up my nose down to my stomach so it could drain my stomach content.
That was one of the most uncomfortable feeling a human being can experience.
My bowels where pretty much obstructed. Two weeks past and I haven’t ate or drank anything. In fact I started vomiting my own feces from my mouth, things started to get even worse so we decided it was best to go in for surgery.
I had a laparotomy done, they made an incision in my abdomen to drain and suction all the blood.
Surgery was a success.
3 weeks of no food/liquids, a ton of pain killers, a ton of antibiotics and heparin shots, here I was. From my biggest/strongest 255lbs to 200lbs. So weak I struggled doing something as basic as washing my hands.
6 months post op I’m doing relatively ok. Still have multiple adenomas, some of them are regressing but it looks I’ll be needing more surgery down the road.
Plan is resecting the few bigger ones and ablating the rest with Radiofrequency Ablation. Have a great team of Doctors next to me. Doing our next absolute best to avoid a liver transplant.
Hormonally I’ve been off everything since then with my test levels extremely low at 62. I’m actually starting Doctor prescribed trt next week.
Thanks to everyone who took the time to read, I’m truly grateful.
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