@skn69 posted:Just to clarify, my liver enzymes have been elevated for over a year, the pain has been going on progressively for more years...my generalist (very kind but new in my life, being that we moved recently) did not find the numbers alarming...I had to insist on the abdominal plate due to the sudden and severe pain...there they found what they thought was an enlarged shadow of an impacted colon! My surgeon then ordered the MRI that confirmed that it was my liver...but with covid we are not rushing to see any doctors unless it is absolutely necessary.
I did have an undetermined, as a teen, IBS diagnosis...hospitalized over a dozen times... they called it spastic colon with repeat unresolved 'gastro' symptoms...with the usual bleeding, uncontrollable diarrhea etc...I.V. and antibiotics were the go-to treatment...but I did not have a diagnosis of U.C. or Crohns (it would have been a deal-breaker for the K pouch at the time).
None of the patients from that time (the 70's-80's) that had k pouches done were ever suggested to have annual scopes...it was thought that once the colon was gone, the disease left with it...unless there was cancer.
New information and the fact that they now do J pouches and K pouches/BCIR for people with both U.C. and Crohns as well as cancer and other diseases (yes, other reasons can lead to pouches such as anal atresia, accident, incontinence...) have led us to the fact that the disease can come back in the small bowel...not my case.
I am doing a simple liver cleanse right now (all-natural with artichokes cooking water, lots of vegetables and very little of much else just to lighten the load on my liver). It will not cure anything but at least I am not making things worse...it seems to help with some of the pain and bloating...
I have had a lot of medical issues and treatments and take NSAIDs daily which can cause liver toxicity...the pain is unbearable without them and I refuse narcotics (the French having no problem prescribing them by the truckload without any restrictions)...the accumulation of all of that may be at the bottom of this.
Yes, I will need to proceed with my exams or tests and see a gastro or hepatologist but until this covid thing is over, I will deal with the pain and discomfort, avoid anything that can make matters worse and keep my fingers crossed.
I wish you all a very happy, healthy, safe and joyous New Year...
Sharon
THanks!!! Same to you! Happy New Year Dear! 