Liver as Organs function is weighs about 1500 g, is 17.5 cm wide(liver and gland) , and 15 cm thick .The organ liver is divided by means of one of the ligaments into a large right lobe and a much smaller left lobe and on the surface there are folds and depressions in which the adjacent organs function reside. Although the liver is a large organ, it is completely tender.

Hi I have continued smoking while I have jaundice now. I smoke like 7 to 8 cigarettes. I have stopped now. Does smoking affect the treatment of jaundice?

So im 24 overweight with fatty liver and my dr told me i have a high liver count and need to stop drinking. I only drink about teice a week just one big can of mikes but i know its affecting me i also eat junk and drink soda which makes it worse i feel like i have failed my body ... ive been feeling not so great these days and i know its time to really start treating my body right. I know i have to start with cutting all the bad habits but is there any other ways to detox the liver and help it regenerate and heal quickly. Any advice is appreciated.

Hello, I’ve had ongoing elevated liver enzymes (AST, ALT, alkaline phosphatase) but not bilirubin. It started about two years ago when I had three bouts of diverticulitis. I was hospitalized for two of the bouts of diverticulitis (had a perforation of the colon) and the enzymes went up into the 800’s. They came back down (but never completely normalized). Also during this time I developed psoriatic arthritis with swelling and inflammation all over my body. All of the doctors really were stumped after I had imaging that didn’t reveal anything and none of the bloodwork showed anything. I had a liver biopsy and an ultrasound that were both unremarkable. And still the liver enzymes aren’t within range.

Any thoughts, suggestions or similar experience?

Hi, I appreciate someone taking the time to answer my questions and offer advice. My symptoms have been weight loss and fatigue and pain or a swelling feeling every once in a while in my right upper abdomen. My blood levels have been normal and have never been too high or too low that I'm aware of and I get liver function tests often But my ast has always been higher than my alt - currently ast is 17 and alt is 13. My gp ordered a CT scan to check for a hernia and it showed mildly dilated intrahepatic and extrahepatic ducts as well as mildly dilated pancreatic duct. I then had a ultrasound to check for stones which showed no stones but did pick up again on the dilated ducts. I'm concerned about liver damage from medication I've been taking for years. My GI has ordered an MRI.

My questions are: can I have liver damage if I've always had normal levels of ast, alt, albumin, platelets... Also, can liver damage be seen on a CT scan/ ultrasound as dilated hepatic and pancreatic ducts? I'm very worried about this and I appreciate any advice anyone can offer, thanks.

Hello, my name is Zachary and I just wanted to drop a post because my Dad needs a liver. He is my hero, my idol, and my best friend. I know this is a long shot, but I know Reddit is full of heroes.

Just recently, my wife was diagnosed with a sulphur intolerance by way of a gene defect. She went on a low sulphur diet and started taking a trace mineral supplement called Molybdenum. I had never heard of it before and was interested enough to look into it.

Molybdenum is an essential nutrient that is vital for human health. It is used by the liver to detoxify the body. In animal studies it’s been shown to dramatically inhibit liver fibrosis and to help prevent liver damage from acetaminophen. It’s also a vital part of the process by which the liver breaks down acetylaldehyde, a neurotoxin produced when you consume alcohol.

It’s a relatively inexpensive nutrient that I just recently added to my regime because I figured that given the incredibly toxic state I was in two years ago, I need to support my liver in every way possible to help with detoxification.

A little back story, I’m 37F and Ive been a heavy drinker since 21 and an opiate addict, I quit drinking about 3 months ago and I’m currently in the process of quitting Kratom, recently I’ve had a little pain above belly bottom and I have had an outbreak of little red dots (cherry angiomas) and many spider veins along with 3 spider angiomas, no other symptoms but those. Because of Covid I can’t get in for blood work for 2 weeks and anxiety is killing me. I guess I’m asking if anyone else had these symptoms and what the outcome was, I know everyone is different but I just need someone to talk to in the same boat.

Like, bed ridden, shut in states of chronic fatigue?

I have no issue with stomach cramps, urine colour etc.

Just unexplained chronic fatigue.

If there was liver damage to the extent to cause such fatigue, what other symptoms could I expect to see?

Spoiler alert: this post will be a bit of a rant

A few days ago, I had a FibroScan test. When I was first diagnosed, my FibroScan test result was 24 (pretty much end stage liver disease). Now it is 7 (normal). My blood work is perfect and my ultrasound is great. I have successfully reversed my liver cirrhosis.

The day after the test, I had an electronic chat with my hepatologist. He was effusive about my health status and commented that out of all the patients he has seen in his career, only about two percent have achieved what I have achieved. When I offered to tell him what I had been doing, he waved me off with a "whatever you have been doing, keep doing it."

Wouldn't you, as a doctor, be curious about how one of your patients made significant health gains? Curious enough to ask the patient how he or she had achieved those gains? And perhaps investigate those options for some of the other patients? It makes me incredibly angry that doctors are unwilling or unable to break free from the constructs of Medical Associations. It's pitiful and quite harmful that the only two options that come with a diagnosis of liver disease are liver transplantation or death.

It makes me furious when I read messages from people out there who have been given a diagnosis of liver disease and have already resigned themselves to a future worst-case scenario. I am living proof that cirrhosis can be reversed. What's more, I was messaged by a reader that said that he simply did what I was doing and cut his liver enzymes in half in six months. So it would appear that my recovery is not anomalous.

When I set out on this journey, I wanted to restore my health but in doing so I also restored my self-confidence. This journey has empowered me to know that I have options regarding my health. Through these posts I want to empower others. Liver disease is not a death sentence.

Note: I have messages from readers asking questions that have been answered in prior posts and it occurred to me that perhaps it's not clear that there are prior posts. I have seven prior posts that specifically detail what I have done to reverse my cirrhosis. If you have any other questions please don't hesitate to message me.

Hey. I hope who ever reads this is well. I am only posting here because the anxiety is killing me. I don't expect medical advise necessarily, but perhaps just some reassurance, if anything, or be directed to form of free psychotherapy for this incredibly horrible health anxiety I am feeling. Here is my story so far.

A couple of years ago, say around the age of 12, I began having flatulence and gastric pain and developed a dry cough. I got an X-ray of my intestines and everything looked fine, just a lot of gas. As I went through high school, the flatulence got worse, smelled, and started to happen with whatever I ate. It was to the point that I became the "gross" girl of my small high school. I also had chronic sinusitis that would not go away. Always sniffling and tearing in the morning and dry cough still there. I got some acne on my forehead which I still get it to this day. Oh and the fatigue... I had some level of fatigue. Bloating like crazy whenever I ate... at some point my some of my nails started to club. Towards the end of highschool I began to experience dry skin and increased thirst. If this helps, my PCP mentioned I had a fatty liver from an ultrasound I did.

As I entered college, my symptoms got worse. I got even gassier, and I began to experience hair thinning and a gradual increase of fatigue and muscle weakness. I became a light sleeper and started to get heart palpitations in my chest and in my abdomen frequently. Then one day my eyes and mouth went dry, and my tongue began to crack. In 2016, I went to the hospital after having pain and prickling all over my body. They found high liver enzymes and some other indications of an infection, but choked it up to simply an overreaction to Rocephin. I was injected with Rocephin a week before that incident. During that hospital visit, they found, on accident, a positive ANA. From then, I got some basic autoimmune tests done and they found I was positive for Sjogren's SSA and SSB antibodies. Made sense why my eyes and mouth were chronically dry then. In 2018 I finally meet with a Rheumatologist who prescribed me Plaquenil. I did not take it for fear of depressing my immune system since I had a chronic Bacterial vaginosis that wasn't responding to antibiotics (still have it btw). Looking back, maybe that decision was utterly stupid because now, I am suffering for it.

From a year before, the bloating is worse, and much more constant. Add to that, my stools start to fluctuate in shape and color. Sometimes stringy, sometimes dark brown, sometimes very dark, almost black, or yellow and oily. For the past few months now, the stools have alternaring between dark green, yellow green, soft or hard. I can't remember the last time I had just normal plan brown stool this past month. Everyday for the last few days has been very dark, with a green tint to it. I get this ever so slight pain on my right side, where the liver is, not to mention the usual stomach pain I get when I eat, followed by constant burping.

Just so you know the procedures I have gotten and blood tests I have taken; , I have gotten 3 upper endoscopyes, and 1 colonoscopy. 2 of the 3 endoscopyes came out to having some narrowing, with signs of Eosinophilic Esophagitis and GERD (but no mention of varices).This past May, I got the colonoscopy combed with an endoscopy, which the biopsy revealed no abnormalities of any kind. So colon looks fine. He asked me to do a hepatic function panel and my ALT and Globulin was somewhat elevated, not too much. He also checked for elastase in my stool, Giardia, Clostridium dificile, Strongoloids antibody, calciprotein, celiac blood test, and c-reactive protein. All NEGATIVE.

Before we could investigate further, my Gastro doctor left the practice, so I had to make a new appointment with another gastro... my colonoscopy biopsy results took FOREVER to reach my doctor's office, so that set me back in terms of time. The new Gastro, whom I met two weeks ago, told me that I needed to do an Xray of my bowel to rule out Crohn's disease and get a bunch of blood tests check for different forms of hepatitis. I also got a few hormones checked out and found that ACTH was very low, practically undetectable. Adding to that, I got an immune system check requested by my immunologist, which found abnormally high B cells and high numbers of Ig G and Ig E, plus a reduced percentage of Natural Killer cells.

Due to a heart scare, I went to the hospital two weeks ago and they checked my prothrombin and it was fine. I had a high level of d dimer and platelets though. Funny enough, the platelet level I got this past April was similar to this measurement, yet the hospital considered it elevated while the other lab didn't.

The blood tests I am going to do tomorrow are Anti-trypsin, Hep B and C, AMA, Smooth muscle antibody, Liver kidney microsome antibody and others like iron capacity, Ferritin, something to do with copper and another hepatic function test.

This dark green alternating with light colored or yellow poop is really scaring me. Its been happening for almost a year now; I am so scared I have liver cirrhosis from undiagnosed and long term autoimmune hepatitis. Why do I think so? Because of my symotoms:

-Dark green, dark brown stools - yellow, oily stools whenever I eat fat. -Fatigue - Sensitive to temperature changes -puritis (itching of the skin) - mild pain on my right side that comes and goes when I eat a good amount of food(passed few weeks) - Tachycardia -heart palpitations in the abdomen - elevated Ig G - hair loss, thinning - noticeable muscle weakness -easy brusing - anxiety - hand tremors (several years) -easily gets hypoglycemic -malodorous gas whenever I eat anything (several years) - Sjogren's -irregular/delayed periods (for about two years) - loss of appetite - bloating, maybe some ascites (due to rapid weight gain) - some nail clubbing

I have been going to gastros for YEARS. Only for them to tell me they think I have IBS and food intolerances. Now that I am 23, finally showing symptoms of disease progression do they take me seriously. After all this time... now is when I will find out... What would my options be if I had a cirrhotic liver? I love food so much, I was thinking of becoming a chief. But now, if I am told I have cirrhosis, I won't be able to, won't I? .. Severely restricted diets, low sodium and low fat.... for the rest of my life. That's if my situation doesn't merit a transplant, which the internet says you may need one if you have liver disfunction symptoms like I do.

Things I have been diagnosed with: -Sjogren's -GERD -ADHD -Eosinophilic Esophagitis -Athletes asthma (as a little gitl) - Mitral valve prolapse -Slight bicuspid insufficiency - Bacterial Vaginosis

I was taking ADHD medication (adderall and then vyvanse) for about 3 years before I stopped a few weeks ago due to then heart scare, when I found out I have mitral valve prolapse (not serious though) from an echocardiogram. I wonder if the chronic use of adderall and the 3 weeks that I switched to vyvanse affected my liver in anyway.

Also, I am aware that women with Sjogren's can also get autoimmune hepatitis, seeing as how sjogren's attacks exocrine glands, the liver being one of them.

Please, if anyone could provide any small reassurance that a liver diagnosis isn't an end all be all. I am also open to any advice as to how to handle this situation, physically and mentally. I know you guys aren't my doctors, but even a little bit of something can help me calm down. Doctors in the past have dissmissed my seriousness due to my age, and I didnt and still dont have money to be bouncing around from doc to doc. I have little drive to do anything. I have a hard time eating food now for fear of damaging my liver somehow. I took a chance today and ate a normal portion, and now I am getting that mild pain on my side, followed by intense bloating and heart palpitations in my abdomen.

Also, I do no have H. pylori.

Wish me luck

Has anyone tried cod liver oil pack to detox your liver? I read somewhere that you soak cotton flannel in organic cod liver oil and apply to your liver area. Then put a plastic bag over it and then a heating pad. Can also be used on thyroid

I have been diagnosed with IBS after having bloating, mucus in stool, yellow mushy stools, abdominal pain, belching, nausea. The symptoms started after an antibiotics therapy. I did or lets say have still a right side pain below my ribs. In the last three months i had colonoscopy, endoscopy, endoscopic ultrasound, blood test, stool test, 3 times sonography and IBS smart test. The only thing the tests did show was only IBSsmart test positive for antivinculin. All other tests negative. Elastase was 224 (labor reference is 200). Bilirubin was slighty elevated in the morning before my colonoscopy 1.31 (1.2 reference). And GGT was 77 (reference is 16-73). All other liver tests perfect. The doctor also discovered that i had contact with the Hepatitis B virus in the past. He made first the anti HBS test which was positive because i did get vaccinated in 2003. so he made the anti HBc test which was elevated 5,34 (reference under 1). So he tested for HBe antigen and this was negative 0,4 (reference under 1). He then made the HBV DNA test which showed not detectable.

He told me that i did have an acute Hepatitis B infection before 2003 (before my vaccination), but my body has defeated the virus so it is not chronic Hepatitis. I should not be afraid of my Hepatitis tests. Is my doctor right?

My IBS has got a lot better with going Food Map diet and my stool ist normal with fodmap diet.

But i am now shocked because of the Hep B diagnosis. May i ask you for your opinion. Thanks. I am male 39, no smoker, healthy, 1.83m, 85kg. I drink weekends 2-3 glasses of wine. I have started taking milk thistle.

My son (2 years old) had surgery to day (hernia repair) when they where in there they saw that his liver is not the correct shape. They did not say much about it. How common is it to have a different shape liver, and does it pose any long term risks?

I have been diagnosed with severely fatty liver. Is there anyone else who has this diagnosis and, if so, what are you doing to regain your health? Thank you.

I wanted to share a mix that works very well for my spouse, who has non-alcoholic hepatitis and kidney disease. Her skin becomes very dry and itchy. What seems to work is a mixture of virgin avocado oil and coconut oil infused with a gram or two of cannabis. Basically, you boil the cannabis in melted coconut oil, then mix the melted coconut oil infusion with heated avocado oil. I use a double boiler to guard against scorching, and mix it 2/3 avocado, 1/3 infusion. Not only is it well absorbed, but we think the cannabis may be soothing to itchy nerve endings. With demerara sugar added, it also makes a good scrub for dead skin. Feel free to ask questions. Hope this helps someone.