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[misanthrope]

65. I have only met one other Alpha-1 in person

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I have spoken with a few others via Alpha Net.

Like you I show no liver damage thus far, which is amazing considering I drank like a fish for a few years in my youth. We are lucky in that regard.

My lung damage became evident in my 30s. Considering I grew up in a house with a smoker and American society was saturated with cigarette smoke throughout my youth, it is surprising I didn't notice before then. I was diagnosed with emphysema before age 40. I have been on weekly infusion therapy for 19 years now.

There are obviously carriers in my family line (hence its presence in me) but no others I know of who manifested the disease. The disease itself was only discovered about the time I was born in 1964. I have heard that testing for its presence is far more common now.