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Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I truly feel as though my family and I are useless and that my brother is all alone. Why didn't he see the hepatologist the first go around? Why doesn't anyone care enough to want to treat him? What can I do? I'm so scared and feel completely helpless. Now, the last communication I received is that this hospital is taking him back to the first hospital so that he can see the hepatologist. Today, he's had 2 plasma injections to get him ready to drain fluid. The doctors said he may need his body cavity drained, so they gave him vitamin k in preparation, which didn't do the trick. Since then, he's been so tired he can barely speak. He was in a great deal of abdominal pain yesterday, so they gave him some morphine.

I just don't know who to talk to, and where I can get a straight answer. Based on my online research, he his gravely ill. My Mom tracked his MELD score, using an online calculator, and it has varied from 31 to 32. He's been at the second hospital for 5 days. The new doctors determined that his sodium levels were too low. We decided to take him to a different emergency room because he didn't seem to be getting the care/treatment he needed at the first hospital. 3 days later, he again collapsed from low blood pressure. During his time at home, we ensure he was on a very low sodium diet (under 2,000 mg). He was again released the following day and was told to move slowly from a laying, to a sitting and/or standing position. An ambulance took him to the emergency room, where he stayed overnight for further tests. His blood pressure had dropped dangerously low. The day after he was released, he collapsed in the bathroom and hit his head. The doctor told us that he would need to come back in 6 months for further tests, and in the interim, attend alcoholics anonymous classes, and continue to see his primary care physician. He never did see hepatologist during his stay, nor have we had conclusive information relayed to us about his liver biopsy. It's breaking our heart to see him in this condition. My brother is a very quick-witted man, so it's a far contrast from the brother we're use to being around. He took lactulose 2X a day, which seemed to help moderately, although he remained very sleepy, and occasionally confused depending on the time of the day. Rather, he has alcoholic cirrhosis (although he was never a heavy drinker). He was in the hospital for 7 days, and during his visit, we were informed that he did not have autoimmune hepatitis as they had originally thought.

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That evening, he couldn't tell time, flush a toilet or operate a tv remote. A few days later, he became very confused, was slurring his words and looked terrible, so my Mom took him to the emergency room. We were told the hepatologist's office average 7-10 days to review the files to determine whether they would see him. It was recommended that he schedule an appointment with a hepatologist immediately. At that point, a doctor recommended he have a liver biopsy, and he was originally diagnosed with autoimmune hepatitis which caused liver disease.

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A month ago, he became very lethargic, had zero energy, and his skin turned yellow. He's 6'5', and was a bit overweight, so when he began losing weight it didn't seem completely alarming. In total, he has lost around 70 lbs in 9 months. He started losing weight in December of 2008, and his doctor attributed it to stress. My brother is 36 and was, up until the last month, a healthy, vivacious, happy man. I'm new to using forums, so I apologize in advance if I'm doing this incorrectly.