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liver screening what is involved please?

Minirex

Minirex

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cornwall. uk
Type of diabetes
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Tablets (oral)
Due to recently being diagnosed and other health problems it has been advised I have a liver screen. what does this entail?
I also have raised ALT and raised triglycerides. I think due to weight gain because of the steroids it has caused problems. I am now coming off the steroids slowly which should help.
My CRP's are 39

any advice would be great
 
Hi! I assume they are doing a scan-either ultrasound or CT-both are painless although will involve fasting and if it's a CT with contrast-it will involve a small canula in your arm(Didn't hurt at all) so at a certain point during the scan they can inject dye into your system to get a clearer view but either way it's nothing scary.;)
 
Minirex said:
Due to recently being diagnosed and other health problems it has been advised I have a liver screen. what does this entail?
I also have raised ALT and raised triglycerides. I think due to weight gain because of the steroids it has caused problems. I am now coming off the steroids slowly which should help.
My CRP's are 39

any advice would be great
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If liver screening is the same as a liver function test, it's a blood test which the Biochemistry Dept. do. There's a stack of things they look for to see which are within or outside of the normal range.

Most GPs that I know would regard raised Trigs and raised ALTs as typical of someone drinking too much alcohol. I had raised trigs for years and they always asked me and never believed me whan I said I didn't drink much at all. As soon as I cut down on sugar after diabetes, my trigs plumetted. Suagr is a cause of raised trigs, but the GPs didn't appear to be aware of that.

A liver scan however is different, but you'll have to wait ages for one of those. Mine took so long that they forgot about it and when my trigs came down, they said I didn't need it anymore.
 
Yorksman said:
If liver screening is the same as a liver function test, it's a blood test which the Biochemistry Dept. do. There's a stack of things they look for to see which are within or outside of the normal range.

Most GPs that I know would regard raised Trigs and raised ALTs as typical of someone drinking too much alcohol. I had raised trigs for years and they always asked me and never believed me whan I said I didn't drink much at all. As soon as I cut down on sugar after diabetes, my trigs plumetted. Suagr is a cause of raised trigs, but the GPs didn't appear to be aware of that.

A liver scan however is different, but you'll have to wait ages for one of those. Mine took so long that they forgot about it and when my trigs came down, they said I didn't need it anymore.
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I only have a small drink at Christmas so it cant be that. perhaps if like you I have cut down on sugar maybe this will help with it. thank you
 
paul-1976 said:
Hi! I assume they are doing a scan-either ultrasound or CT-both are painless although will involve fasting and if it's a CT with contrast-it will involve a small canula in your arm(Didn't hurt at all) so at a certain point during the scan they can inject dye into your system to get a clearer view but either way it's nothing scary.;)
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ok thank you, I have had many a CT scan so that's ok and ultrasound so should be fine with that. :)
 
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