[CannonSlugs]

As a long time lurker here I created an account just to reply to this. I'm in the same boat! Diagnosed five years ago.

It has taught me one thing about how hard finding causations is. While my liver is not fully healthy, ever since diagnosis it's been unchanged (according to scans) and my liver values have been good (for five years!). The reason? Chance, as far as I can tell. I am on the most conservative bog-standard treatment available (only UDCA), and it has been working really well.

Reading online there are a lot of people doing antibiotics etc. I'm not being negative about these attempts (I'm sure it has some efficiency, studies seem promising), my point is just that if I took _anything_, I would contribute my mild progression to it and praise it like a panacea. Causation seems almost impossible to find with n=1. To me pure chance seems to dictate a lot.

I am expecting a day when it all goes downhill though. With that said there does seems to be people who can go all their life without needing a transplant (the doctors seem more confident of this than the statistics, which is another strange oddity, but the statistics have always seemed overly harsh to me. I wonder if late diagnoses contribute to this).