My daughter is on a variety of medications, and we'll soon go to have level checked for liver enzymes. In the meantime, if there was a problem with the liver enzyme levels, are they symptoms we should look for?
Dorothy
Posted by skbland (Member # 8644) on :
Hi,
A couple of years ago my liver levels went really high. I had been put on a medication for high blood pressure (I was in the 1st trimester of pregnancy). It was a new medication (Aldamet) for me. Well my stomach kept getting bigger (I ended up having a miscarriage at 12 weeks). I thought my stomach was getting bigger because of the pregnancy, but after the miscarriage it was still distended. I though that I had just gained weight from being pregnant and I tried to lose it by working out but it did not work. Eventually if I was sitting down, I could not bend over to tie my shoes. I went to the doctor and he checked my liver levels. He called me a couple of days later and told me how high they were and that I had to stop taking the Aldamet.
If your daughter starts gaining weight in the stomach, can't bend over to tie her shoes while she's sitting down or feels really, really full after eating just a couple of bites of food I would be concerned about it. If they monitor her blood levels on a regular basis, every few months, then she should be fine.
My liver levels went back to normal fairly quickly after stopping the medication I was on and there was no lasting damage (thankfully). The doctor who put me on the Aldomet never checked my liver levels and I was on it for almost five months.
Hope this helps.
Posted by liz28 (Member # 4946) on :
Piercing lower back pain, steadily increasing exhaustion and fogginess, loud growling sounds emanating from the liverish area, lowgrade fever, weight loss, lack of appetite.
There's a million supplements you can take for this. For me, the super big gun is Dr. Zhang's Hepa Formula 2, and N-acetyl cysteine (NAC) is second best. Some others I arbitrarily like are CoQ10, milk thistle, and phosphatidylcholine (great for Lyme fogginess). Others often mention alpha lipoic acid.
Just don't wait until the liver enzyme levels go up before you start taking a preventative--and it's always smart to take a few. Doctors will immediately take you off antibiotics, setting back weeks or months of treatment.
Posted by bettyg (Member # 6147) on :
Hi Sland, could you hit enter more often after 6-8 lines of text? thanks from us neuro lymies. Betty
quote:Originally posted by skbland: Hi,
A couple of years ago my liver levels went really high. I had been put on a medication for high blood pressure (I was in the 1st trimester of pregnancy).
It was a new medication (Aldamet) for me. Well my stomach kept getting bigger (I ended up having a miscarriage at 12 weeks).
I thought my stomach was getting bigger because of the pregnancy, but after the miscarriage it was still distended.
I though that I had just gained weight from being pregnant and I tried to lose it by working out but it did not work. Eventually if I was sitting down, I could not bend over to tie my shoes.
I went to the doctor and he checked my liver levels. He called me a couple of days later and told me how high they were and that I had to stop taking the Aldamet.
If your daughter starts gaining weight in the stomach, can't bend over to tie her shoes while she's sitting down or feels really, really full after eating just a couple of bites of food; I would be concerned about it.
If they monitor her blood levels on a regular basis, every few months, then she should be fine.
My liver levels went back to normal fairly quickly after stopping the medication I was on and there was no lasting damage (thankfully).
The doctor who put me on the Aldomet never checked my liver levels and I was on it for almost five months. Hope this helps.