I’m Angie, from @diagnosis_cirrhosis on TikTok! For the most part I’ve led a fairly unremarkable life. I used to work in corporate strategy—building models, pressure testing outcomes, and convincing myself that if you ran enough scenarios, you could control what happened next.

…Then I got cirrhosis.

Correction, I got acute chronic liver failure. Turns out I’d had secret cirrhosis for awhile - undiagnosed autoimmune hepatitis. Here’s the stats from my rookie year: MELD: 30, bilirubin: 12, 14.5L of ascites, grade 2 varices

For someone wired like me, the loss of control wasn’t just uncomfortable… It was catastrophic.
And then, somewhere along the way, it became cathartic.

I learned a lot about perspective, and about not always being prospective. About what it means to be scared, and what it feels like to wake up every day despite it. I spent more time crying in my car than actually driving it

But in early 2026, I found what I had no idea I was even looking for: community.

Diagnosis Cirrhosis started as a way to make sense of that shift. A place to test the waters of being unabashedly myself for the first time in my life. To put my heart out there and see if there were any bites. To share all the liver health knowledge my loved ones were too polite to admit they were tired of hearing

The tone is honest. Sometimes dark. Occasionally a little unhinged. Always vulnerable.

If you’re here, you’re probably trying to figure something out, for yourself or for someone you love. I can’t fix that part.

But I can make it less confusing, less isolating, and a little more human.

And if nothing else, I can probably at least explain what the hell your doctor just said.