We had this FibroScan done in January, but it took me a long time to finish this video, largely beacause I was using a computer that is about 7 years old, and video editing software that uses so much memory on my computer, my whole computer kept freezing up on me. I literally had to buy a new computer to get this finished!
Anyway, this is real footage from the Fibroscan. I did not inform the Elastographer that I was making this video, because I didn't want her to say no, you can't film this. As far as I was concerned, I had every right to film these results since they were my husband's results and I wanted to have some kind of concrete proof that all this stuff we've been doing actually worked!
I got tears in my eyes as I saw the numbers on the screen. I knew that the marker for Cirrhosis was 12.5, so I was very happy to see the numbers flashing on the screen were often below that. Sometimes, they went higher, but the ones the Elastographer actually registered came out to a median score of 9.37. I had to calculate this myself, by the way. My husband's doctor did not give the numbers to us, and in fact, he seemed pretty incredulous that we were able to get the results we did. It was as if he didn't want to acknowledge it. I actually do like this doctor so I'm not trying to say anything bad about him, but his reaction was a little bit of a disappointment.
I called someone who was a representative for Fibroscan and asked him how to get the overall score (since Jake's doctor didn't give it to him), and he confirmed what I figured... you just take the scores you are given, and come up with the average of all the numbers. My husband's score of 9.37 means he is technically in the "fibrosis" stage (not CIRRHosis). Needless to say, we were very happy about this. I am hopeful that his numbers will continue to improve. We plan to get another FibroScan in January 2017, and hopefully it will show even more improvement in his liver fibrosis. Will let you know the results.
If you haven't already seen my post about how to read a Fibroscan, you can see it HERE.
Thanks to alternative treatments, my husband was off all of his prescription medications a year after being diagnosed with Stage 4 Liver Disease. He was able to run a mile in under nine minutes with no training. A year later, A FibroScan confirmed he no longer has cirrhosis.* His MELD score is a 6, and he's down to Stage 2. He just went on a 12 mile hike. If a doctor tries to tell you cirrhosis can't be reversed, please consider alternative treatments. Some of them really do work!
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