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Dr. Stoll,
your post about cholestrol deposits under the eyes made me think about something that happened to my mother. She had those same little bumps, and was told she had primary billiary cirrohsis. She was told to stop eating all fats, and given medication that she was to float on water and drink at every meal. Her skin became dry and dark, and her belly destended. She iched furriously until she died.
I read recently that they are now giving people like my mom liver transplants.
I have so many questions. I wonder if the medication made her sicker, it certainly seemed to. To be honest, I wonder if the therapy they gave her didn't make her terminally ill. She wasn't sick prior to the diagnosis, she only had little bumps under her eyes. I wonder if she had been on omega 3's if she would have gotten sick at all. Are there alternative treatments for primary billiary cirrhosis? It seems so horrible to tell someone that their only chance at life is another person's liver.
In Reply to: Primary Billiary Cirrhosis posted by Jan on May 07, 2003 at 00:21:49:
Hi, Jan.
Not a nice way to go!
The only thing I know of that might have helped is serious wellness to help the body work at it's best potential.
How long ago was this? Knowledge of liver function and physiology has been woefully missing until about 10 years ago and now is advancing in leaps and bounds. An example of the resistance of the "professionals", in accepting this information, is how conventional physicians still order the liver death tests (reflecting our level of understanding 50 years ago) rather than even order the true liver function tests that are based upon this new knowledge.
Just as bleeding a sick person has finally been discredited as a therapeutic modality, so many "treatments", based upon outdated knowledge about the liver might have been doing more harm than good.
Without knowing exactly what her "medication" was, I would have no idea how it might go against current knowledge.
Hope this helps.
Walt
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