PCOS Messages for August, 2003: Re: fatty liver disease

Re: fatty liver disease

From: james (anonymous@obgyn.net)
Fri, 29 Aug 2003 15:46:57 -0500 (CDT)

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At Thu, 21 Jun 2001, cathy wrote: >
>Hi Amy, a good site about liver dysfunction that mentions fatty liver is
>http://www.liverdoctor.com.
>Cathy
>
>At Wed, 20 Jun 2001, Amy wrote:
>>
>>Okay, I haven't been here at all in prolly a yr, but o well. Anyway I
>>was told today that I had fatty liver disease and I was going to have a
>>liver biopsy so they could see how bad it was. Well I couldn't find
>>hardly anything about it on any site, since I don't drink. I just
>>remember reading a while back about it and it said that endocrine
>>disorders can maybe cause it, however, that was only one place I found
>>it. I am having so much trouble finding anything about this, even my
>>mom (who is a nurse) couldn't find anything about it in any of her
>>medical books. Well I know I read some of you had fatty liver, but does
>>anyone have fatty liver disease? (wishing there was a forum somewhere
>>for that, but so far I havent' found one).
>>Well, my history here is that I did have hepatitis A and mono about a yr
>>and a half ago, but I've been diagnosed with PCOS for about 2-2 1/2 yrs.
>>I just lucked out that I found out I had PCOS I guess, since I am not
>>sexually active so therefore me being infertile never came up, only that
>>I have a diligent dr who takes me seriously did I find out I had this in
>>the first place, and now that I have something wrong with my liver.
>>Anyways, (I tend to go off on tangents, sorries) I went to the dr last
>>august cause I was sick to my stomach for a while and they did bloodwork
>>and my liver enzymes came out way high. So they did a sonogram of my
>>liver and my spleen and then they did the SAME things this past jaunuary
>>and the liver enzymes came out high, and so did an elevated liver
>>function test and I had fat in my liver and both it and my spleen are
>>enlarged. I am still waiting to actually have the biopsy done, but the
>>dr is fairly confident that's what I have because he did all my other
>>bloodwork to check for other things and those came out normal. Anyways,
>>I just remember getting the most help from this site no matter what the
>>heck was wrong with me, whether or not it had to do with PCOS. You are
>>more supportive than any other site I've seen so far.
>>If you can help then please reply, information or good sites or if you
>>have it yourself, any of those would help me A LOT. Thanks!!! :)
>>
>>PS wow this is long, heh

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