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Ah.... not familiar with that one. Is it new?

It was interesting, when Chris was on Methotrexate they adamantly told him not to have any alcohol for the week he had the shot. (he didn't have them weekly, but like bi-weekly or monthly as needed) They said it made his liver too weak to handle the alcohol and that it could be damaging. When my mom was on it for liver Cancer, at much higher doses, I mentioned this to her, and she said they had said nothing to her about drinking or not drinking. I wondered if maybe they just view someone with liver Cancer as being too far gone to care about possible side effects to the liver, or what. Seemed to me they would want her to be as easy on her liver as possible, though she did like Margaritas at El Sarape on Fridays.

Unfortunately, I would imagine that is the case...liver cancer is terminal and usually pretty swift...margaritas at El Sarapes wouldn't change that.

In a healthy person though, the liver is able to regenerate to a certain extent if allowed to.

Alcoholics just never give the liver the chance to heal up. The liver becomes scarred, scar tissue shrinks, the major arteries in the body that run through the liver become squeezed and you end up with hemmoroids in the rectum and in the throat (called varices) from the pressure in the vessels building up because it can't get through the liver. Varices are ticking bombs. They can easily rupture and that's all folks.

Had a friend who's mother died from them. Horrible.

Liver values start showing abnormalities when damage has occured. I once worked for a doctor and he had me call this guy and tell him his lab values showed early cirrosis...had to tell him to quit drinking. The guy was just silent for a while then said "Whattaya mean, quit drinking?" I said "Your lab values show that your alcohol intake is beginning to destroy your liver and you can't live without your liver, you need to quit drinking."

He just verbally bawled me out...who the h*** was I to tell him to quit drinking!!!??? I told him "Sir, I'm not telling you to quit drinking, your liver is."

He hung up on me...never heard what happened to the fella.