Love Your Liver

Public screening session, Wed 18 Nov, 10am - 4pm, Wigan Life Centre South, College Ave (link)

There is no need to book.

The quick test checks your liver health & helps to reveal factors in your weekly life which could be changed to help reduce the risk of serious conditions.

A limited number of fibroscans - non-invasive liver scans - will also be available on the day.




It's Alcohol Awareness Week (Mon 16 - Sun 22 Nov) & The British Liver Trust's campaign urges people to think about the impact of drinking alcohol along with other health issues can have on the vital organ.

More info - loveyourliver.org.uk

The fibroscan - a limited number available tomorrow, Wed 18th Nov.

Health Trainers are community-based & can provide 1-2-1 support. They offer advice, support & signposting on a wide range of issues including reducing or stopping drinking alcohol.

Links: healthyrouteswigan.co.uk / @wiganborough

For anyone who would like help with an alcohol problem - www.addaction.org.uk:



Wigan & Leigh Recovery Partnership are an adult service that provides info, advice, support and treatment for those with a drug or alcohol problem.

Coops Building, Silk St Recovery Centre, and Kennedy House - Link

That's great information, Joanne.
I'll be researching this further

The screening tomorrow is a great opportunity for anyone who can pop into Wigan, Granada.

I intend to be there at some point .

where is the life centre south,?????

Life Centre South is the building where the baths used to be.

Thank you dodger thats the bottom of Millgate . I've never heard of Collage Ave.

I think the entrance is in College avenue, which is the street between Library St and Millgate.

a friend of mine who has liver probs was told by a specialist at LEEDS INFIRM that drinking coffee was good for the liver??

This is what it says on the British Liver Trust's website, Billy - link:

Some studies have suggested that coffee has a beneficial effect on the liver and may help to reduce the risk of liver cancer in those with cirrhosis. For those with liver damage who enjoy coffee, there is no need to stop drinking it. The way in which coffee may affect the liver is still being investigated.

I went down there today.
It was well very attended. And, a very much appreciated service as I spoke to quite a few "patients" in there.

The staff were superb, very helpful, and discreet.
It taught me a lot about how much work your liver does for you!

I had the scan. The results could have been better Hardly surprising to me.
But, they have sorted me out with an appointment in two days time with the appropriate people

How quick is that
Don't worry, My life is not under threat

I just need to alter my lifestyle and habits.
Thanks, Joanne for posting the information on here
Without it I would not have known anything about it.
And, I suspect a lot more people also.

Cheers.

I reckon I am a fatalist, whatever is in my karma, so be it....ive had an interesting life, ive had a long life judging from quite a few absent friends.so bring it on I say, cant wait for the next phase of this eternal journey we are all on. yeahhh.

billy as britboy posted the other day

Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!
Hunter S. Thompson, The Proud Highway: Saga of a Desperate Southern Gentleman, 1955-1967

That's the second time I've recycled it, thanks britboy

jo anne, what a star you are finding all the information you do about what's happening in Wigan.

Good luck Granada, hope you are sorted soon.

well jazzy its certainly another way of looking at this present trip we are on, butttt, for one who has been priviledged to have sat in quite a few circles, I stay with the version ive heard so often from those already entered into the next phase.ps Jennifer/britboy...stand by fer the circus of clowns, I sense them hovering this post as I type....psychic or what????????
catch yis tomorrow jaz take care now x night all x memo to self...more soda with the liquor.

Granada, glad you were able to go, & good luck with your follow up appointment.

There's to be a Love Your Liver event in Leigh too - date & venue to be confirmed. (Map)