Slick_Ricky

Thanks for the question! I feel as though lifestyle had something to do with it. I was overweight, but I also wasn’t a heavy drinker. The best possible guess is an autoimmune disease called lupus anticoagulant. It has around a 35% false/positive test rate, but it’s come back positive 3 times. It causes an increase in clotting in places you don’t want them to happen.

Cameron, Foreman, and Chase would finally be correct! (Kind of) lol

Give me as many questions as you’d like! It doesn’t slosh because my skin stretches as the fluid builds. The 3-4 days before a drain are where it hurts the most. Endless back and hip pain. Nausea and hunger at the same time constantly. Heartburn, trouble breathing, skin hurts. It gets pretty taxing, but my skin has been resilient so far!

I remember bits and pieces before the surgery and after. They maxed me out on morphine before they thought to do surgery and I remember morphine did absolutely nothing. Then they started giving me dilaudid, but that barely started to take the edge off. I remember counting down the minutes till I could have another shot of something to take this pain away. At first the surgery was exploratory to see what it looked like. After 10 minutes she pulled the camera out and cut into me because she was watching my bowels die in real time. Afterwards I cried when I learned what happened. First 2 days in ICU I barely remember anything. Thank you very much.

Your body can develop collaterals(kind of like little pathways) to compensate and to divert the extra fluid. I’ve recently started to develop some but not enough. On Friday I have a consult with a radiological team that wants to put a shunt around my liver to bypass it and(hopefully) eliminate all future ascites! It does come with risks.