ZonSun
Rising Star
Hello everyone.
I'll give you all some background information, so you can understand why this happened.
(sorry if this is not the right place)
My sister was diagnosed with acute l. leukemia 5 years ago, she was treated for some time with chemotherapy but on November of lasts year leukemia reappeared. On the 23 december I donated my stem cells or bone marrow (dont know which) for her and everything went okay, she started to get better. Five months later her bilirubin levels started to increase, first signs that something was wrong, was that she had uncontrolable itch, then she started to get pale and then everything was unstoppable, she experienced liver failure. They tried for several months to prevent liver transplant with plasmapheresis and photopheresis but with no success.
So the surest way for her to be saved was for me to donate my liver to her. She couldn't wait any longer because her kidneys started to show signs of damage too. The cause of her liver damage is Graft versus host desease and all the radiation and chemotherapy.
So now 10 days ago we had the operation, everything went good for her and the post operative test are showing signs that she is getting better.
Sorry for the long introduction and back story but you should now in what situation I was in.
When I showed up for the pre-operative tests I did not tell them that I am an addict,I was willing to sacrifice my wellbeing for her and I knew that they would not allow me to donate if I told them.
For 6 days I experienced withdrawals because I was in intensive care unit and could not get my maintenance dose.
Then after six days I took my dose, which luckily isnt much because I tapered down to only 20 miligrams.
My concern is, could methadone and other drugs do me harm to my still not developed liver?
Because I am feeling aches that I did not feel before I took methadone. The side of my liver is aching, people are telling that it is normal but still. I am really concerned because if something happens to me, my sister can not live without me, I don't mind if I die, it is a sacrifice I was willing to take, but if I die, my sister would commit suicide the first moment she would get the chance.
I did some blood tests 4 days ago and everything was normal, for me results of some tests were High but they said it is normal.
The other problem about this whole situation is that the treatment was not being undergone in our home country, she is being treated in Turkey, and we don't know any Turkish, so communication was a xtra huge barrier. I can not ask specific question, or get details, we have a translator but she isn't all the time with us and it is hard to ask anything other than basics through a translator.
Tomorrow I will have some general tests and check up so I hope things will turn out okay, the only thing I am worried that is out of normal is that, 4 nights ago I had chills and fever, the next morning, I told my doctor and he said that you should come to the emergency and measure your temperature.
The other thing is that yesterday, I traveled back home, to Kosovo, and if anything happens during the time I am home it will be very very difficult to do anything, cuz medicine in our country isn't very advanced.
Also, I am in need to do a seance with psychedelics, I can't get acid, I know that lsd is the safer alternative for my situation. I am thinking of taking psilocybe shrooms? but can't find anything other than it saying that shrooms are metabolised by the liver! What hepatic effect do shrooms have?
And while I am on this, what about other drugs? Hypothetically what would be the risk of taking other drugs after donating your liver? If someone would've been a benzo addict? or amphetamine addict? ( I am asking these questions because I know how hard it was for me to get information before the procedure, and maybe it can happen somewhere that somebody might find himself in the situation that I was in).
I thank you prior, for any help and insight all of you will give.
Peace and love.
I'll give you all some background information, so you can understand why this happened.
(sorry if this is not the right place)
My sister was diagnosed with acute l. leukemia 5 years ago, she was treated for some time with chemotherapy but on November of lasts year leukemia reappeared. On the 23 december I donated my stem cells or bone marrow (dont know which) for her and everything went okay, she started to get better. Five months later her bilirubin levels started to increase, first signs that something was wrong, was that she had uncontrolable itch, then she started to get pale and then everything was unstoppable, she experienced liver failure. They tried for several months to prevent liver transplant with plasmapheresis and photopheresis but with no success.
So the surest way for her to be saved was for me to donate my liver to her. She couldn't wait any longer because her kidneys started to show signs of damage too. The cause of her liver damage is Graft versus host desease and all the radiation and chemotherapy.
So now 10 days ago we had the operation, everything went good for her and the post operative test are showing signs that she is getting better.
Sorry for the long introduction and back story but you should now in what situation I was in.
When I showed up for the pre-operative tests I did not tell them that I am an addict,I was willing to sacrifice my wellbeing for her and I knew that they would not allow me to donate if I told them.
For 6 days I experienced withdrawals because I was in intensive care unit and could not get my maintenance dose.
Then after six days I took my dose, which luckily isnt much because I tapered down to only 20 miligrams.
My concern is, could methadone and other drugs do me harm to my still not developed liver?
Because I am feeling aches that I did not feel before I took methadone. The side of my liver is aching, people are telling that it is normal but still. I am really concerned because if something happens to me, my sister can not live without me, I don't mind if I die, it is a sacrifice I was willing to take, but if I die, my sister would commit suicide the first moment she would get the chance.
I did some blood tests 4 days ago and everything was normal, for me results of some tests were High but they said it is normal.
The other problem about this whole situation is that the treatment was not being undergone in our home country, she is being treated in Turkey, and we don't know any Turkish, so communication was a xtra huge barrier. I can not ask specific question, or get details, we have a translator but she isn't all the time with us and it is hard to ask anything other than basics through a translator.
Tomorrow I will have some general tests and check up so I hope things will turn out okay, the only thing I am worried that is out of normal is that, 4 nights ago I had chills and fever, the next morning, I told my doctor and he said that you should come to the emergency and measure your temperature.
The other thing is that yesterday, I traveled back home, to Kosovo, and if anything happens during the time I am home it will be very very difficult to do anything, cuz medicine in our country isn't very advanced.
Also, I am in need to do a seance with psychedelics, I can't get acid, I know that lsd is the safer alternative for my situation. I am thinking of taking psilocybe shrooms? but can't find anything other than it saying that shrooms are metabolised by the liver! What hepatic effect do shrooms have?
And while I am on this, what about other drugs? Hypothetically what would be the risk of taking other drugs after donating your liver? If someone would've been a benzo addict? or amphetamine addict? ( I am asking these questions because I know how hard it was for me to get information before the procedure, and maybe it can happen somewhere that somebody might find himself in the situation that I was in).
I thank you prior, for any help and insight all of you will give.
Peace and love.