Liver problems after I quit drinking
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Yes, I desperately want to lose weight but it's proven challenging. Like I think I mentioned before I lost 30 pounds in three months a year ago giving up gluten and dairy so I know I can do it. I'm trying to get off of one of my psych meds that causes weight gain so that should help as well.
I will try to avoid binges, but yes - don't want to be too restrictive right now.
I will try to avoid binges, but yes - don't want to be too restrictive right now.
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Originally Posted by leanabeana 
Yes, I desperately want to lose weight but it's proven challenging. Like I think I mentioned before I lost 30 pounds in three months a year ago giving up gluten and dairy so I know I can do it. I'm trying to get off of one of my psych meds that causes weight gain so that should help as well.
I will try to avoid binges, but yes - don't want to be too restrictive right now.
I will try to avoid binges, but yes - don't want to be too restrictive right now.
Your liver scan is good news so time to relax for a couple weeks.
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I'm happy to report that I feel much better. It's a Christmas miracle! The only downer is that my RA pain is back but I think it's no coincidence that I feel better now that the RA medication (Enbrel) is out of my system. I really think it was the culprit. The pain is much easier to deal with than the other symptoms I was having. It felt like I had a severe hangover all the time but even worse than that.
I get lab tests done tomorrow so hopefully the news will be better.
I get lab tests done tomorrow so hopefully the news will be better.
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Having same concerns here; How are things with you now?
Originally Posted by leanabeana
I'm 135 days sober and my liver enzymes have been rising since September. Docs can't figure out why but they suspect it might be one of my medications that has triggered hepatitis. I stopped taking it two weeks ago.
Did anyone else have this happen to them after they got sober? The irony of getting liver disease after I got sober is not lost on me.
Did anyone else have this happen to them after they got sober? The irony of getting liver disease after I got sober is not lost on me.
Saw your post was not too long ago; I just wanted to check up on your current status: How are you doing lately?
Fingers crossed, here. Hopefully, you’re okay.
And hopefully, you’ll get this. Any suggestions for me?
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update?
Originally Posted by WaterOx
My enzymes and numbers have all checked out ok but over the past year I have drank less and less and less while doing more and more and more of the right things (eating right, exercising daily, a ton of water)
Yet it seems the more I do the right things, the more my liver tends to hurt.
As some have suggested, it seems there’s a complexity to the liver involving both damage and healing.
That’s my hope, anyhow. I don’t know.
Are you able to get an ultrasound and/or CT scan to cover all angles?
Yet it seems the more I do the right things, the more my liver tends to hurt.
As some have suggested, it seems there’s a complexity to the liver involving both damage and healing.
That’s my hope, anyhow. I don’t know.
Are you able to get an ultrasound and/or CT scan to cover all angles?
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Jipiteca, how much sober time do you have? After a lot of hard drinking, the liver can be inflamed for awhile. In sobriety it is felt, because you have lost your "anaesthetic" and because you are sore as you heal.
As months pass, so should the liver pain and elevated enzymes.
As months pass, so should the liver pain and elevated enzymes.
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Hi jipiteca. Happy to report my liver is back to normal. However, my situation was complicated by a medication that was toxic to my liver. It took about two months after stopping the medication for my enzymes to go back down to normal. It was just a strange coincidence that this happened after getting sober.
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Take care of yourself. There could be several causes for higher liver enzymes. One thing for sure is that stopping drinking is not one of them. As for "going on a diet", I find that moderate exercise and "changing" my diet has the best effect. Something we go "on" is easy to go "off". Changes in behavior seem to stick. Take care of yourself and keep looking at what you might be doing to contribute, but sounds like you are covering the bases.
As for "going on a diet", I find that moderate exercise and "changing" my diet has the best effect. Something we go "on" is easy to go "off". Changes in behavior seem to stick. Take care of yourself and keep looking at what you might be doing to contribute, but sounds like you are covering the bases.
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