Question: Hi. I have been a heavy drinker since I turned 21. In the recent 3-4 years I started to notice or "touch" my right side of the rib cage for worrying I have hurt my liver. I have read about swelling of the liver and the yellowing of the skin and eyes IF there was that much damage. I am not yellow, I don't have liquid stools, I don't have nausea, or any other symptoms BUT when I touch my ribs on the right size and compare them to my left side, I feel significant difference. I feel like each rib is twice the size on my right side! I have been poking them with my fingers for the last 3 or so years. I went to a clinic and the nurse had me lay down on my back and felt under my rib cafe, she said she did NOT feel my liver, but, I didn't feel she had much experience as she had to open up a medical book and seemed unsure when speaking. I don't have insurance to get blood work done, I just don't have the money and I'm also scared, but I quit drinking November 1st because....the last few months every time I drink, the morning after I had a little vaginal bleeding, just some pink, last week I had a lot more, almost looked like the start of my period, long bloody tissue looking, guessing just blood and pink. This last time the discharge with clear and bloody parts lasted a whole day, it made me go sober. I am scared out of my mind, because I researched it and it says alcohol does soemthing to the uterus and makes that happen but it's a sign of liver failure when it happens. Please give me some words, and yell at me if you have to so that I can sleep. I know I drank a lot, I have a problem, but when I touch on the BACK of my back ribs I feel a hard organ like feeling poking out underneath my ribs and I am convinced its my liver. Please help me. Doctor, also, I like to worry and over think everything. I guess I just want to know, if the discharge is there with blood EVERY time I drink the morning after, do I need a transplant or can I snever drink again and I will be okay because the liver fixes itself when it can. I know that depends on how bad the damage is, sometimes the tissue is dead forever.

Doctor. The vaginal bloody discharge was ONLY after the night I had six beers. It lasted all day. I read about it and found some articles online that said in fact that alcohol does something to blood vessels and sometimes can cause vaginal bloody discharge. To test the theory what I did is drank again one night that week and it happened again the next morning! You're syaing that it might be because of the alcohol but NOT because my liver is damaged? I also feel like ts swollen when I sit, is that the muscles maybe because I keep touching there? Thank you doctor.