Possible cirrhosis

[Smafraid]

Thank you so much to everyone that answered. I keep picturing how much I drank, googling the red palms, focusing on the itching, and then bam I’m reading about the rise of women my age with cirrhosis. I was able to give up my daily wine instantly once I realized the red palms and freaked about my liver. Went to bed after finishing some wine and woke up dumped whatever was left in the glass out and never looked back. Honestly within a few hours I felt so much better! Health anxiety has been strong BUT minus the alcohol zero panic attacks.

[Smafraid]

So I’ve been in a bad bad spiral of ha this month. Terrified of cirrhosis. Just recently posted about this issue. Itching, red palms, some veins. Just as a finally calm myself down I look at my calves to see three dots on one and one on the other. I’ve been scratching them all day long and without looking assuming from the feel they were mosquito bites. So now all night long I get to play the game “irritated mosquito bites? Allergy to Lyme medicine? Or spider angioma/blood issue/ related to cirrhosis” It’s entirely possible I just really have never paid attention to mosquito bites before or that I’ve never been so hyper focused on itching that I’ve scratched so much but talking myself down is easier said than done. Thanks for letting me vent and type out how I’m feeling.

[Careful1]

Spider angioma look nothing like a mosquito bite. I have 7 of them and they are distinct looking. It looks like a purple/ish cherry angioma with a bunch of tiny broken blood vessels spreading out from the center. The center looks like spider body and the veins look like the legs.
Also, I responded on your other post and you responded about the Palmer erythema saying your palms sometimes look red and molted but it goes away. Palmer erythema doesn’t work like that. It doesn’t come and go or change in intensity. I have had it for years now and it’s never went away and it’s never changed and having molted skin on other parts of your body have nothing to do with Palmer. I have livedo reticulars on my arms and legs some on my abdomen, I have had it since I was a teenager, It gets worse when I’m cold but it has nothing to do with Palmer erythema.

[nomorepanic]

Hi

This is just a courtesy reply to let you know that your thread was merged with another of your threads.

Please when posting on similar topics add it onto your previous post rather than starting a new one.

It is nothing personal it is just to make it easier for people to follow your story and to give you advice as a whole.

[Smafraid]

I went to the breast clinic for the marks on my breasts which I thought were ibc. If these marks had been liver related do you think they would have put the two together there. I can’t think of a doctor with training in every single field so I feel like one doctor catching one thing could be missed by another.

[Smafraid]

Ok so I’ve been writing on here a lot apologies! This post combines my two so I didn’t know where to write it. Went to derm for what I described as edema, red palms, and boob veins which were purple patches which I figured was cirrhosis. She did a liver panel. One thing was high alt. I was a heavy wine drinker so gave that up. Now I’m worried that I went to the breast clinic for an ibc fear. Regular doctor the 5th thank God for a full checkup but I’m worried that neither doctor put together the pieces of the purple veins on my breasts as cirrhosis. Would a breast clinic know that those spots could be liver related or related to something wrong inside my body? Could I be seeing the wrong specialists? It’s so scary because I should have left the breast clinic feeling relief that she said it’s not ibc so I had my Lyme rash at the time so I’m like oh man she probably didn’t notice the purple patches. She didn’t ask about my drinking. What’s the point of paying for specialists when I’m going to inspect my body every five seconds almost seeking to prove them wrong. Somehow I’ve ever turned the callus on Hand to my cirrhosis. Mosquito bites the other night! The fifth can’t come soon enough.

[Fishmanpa]

I went to the breast clinic for the marks on my breasts which I thought were ibc. If these marks had been liver related do you think they would have put the two together there. I can’t think of a doctor with training in every single field so I feel like one doctor catching one thing could be missed by another.

Time for a 2nd, 3rd and 4th opinion and then doubt that

FMP

[Smafraid]

You’re right. I left feeling ok and now I’m like wait this dr was a liver specialist so she wouldn’t know. I need to breathe

[Fishmanpa]

You’re right. I left feeling ok and now I’m like wait this dr was a liver specialist so she wouldn’t know. I need to breathe

And yet you posted another thread

FMP

[Smafraid]

It feels hopeless like ok got cleared by the breast dr so all this stuff must be my liver. I keep trying to remind myself that I did the right thing giving up alcohol. Living in Lyme limbo isn’t helping me and my constant focus on my health either. Bullseye rash. Blood work for Lyme that wasn’t positive but had some positives which makes zero sense to me but being on medicine for something they won’t officially say you have for someone with ha makes me think oh crap do they know what they are doing