I am trying to recover from a fatty liver. The ultrasound revealed the fatty liver in July and it's been two months. I have been on a very low fat diet and haven't touched alcohol or pain reliever; I've also been excercising every day. My enzymes dropped the first month from AST 139/ALT 94 to AST 75/ALT 60 but now they have hovered around that for a month. How long does it take for the enzymes to go to normal and symptoms to go away?
What did your liver ultrasound show? Thanks, Oleander
The first ultrasound showed "increased echogenicity" and "fibrofatty infiltration". Apparently my enzymes have gone down again, not normal but both AST and ALT are in the 40s now. But I'm getting another ultrasound in 2 weeks because I've been having chest and abdominal pain-weird crampy muscle type pain in the middle of my chest, some general tenderness and soreness around the rib cage. My new doctor is thinking it could be some small gallstones the first ultrasound didn't pick up, maybe some inflammation of the rib cage and/or the recovery from fatty liver. They are not sure, but they still haven't ruled out autoimmune hepatitis because I am ANA and SMA positive (slightly).
The first ultrasound showed "increased echogenicity" and "fibrofatty infiltration". Apparently my enzymes have gone down again, not normal but both AST and ALT are in the 40s now. But I'm getting another ultrasound in 2 weeks because I've been having chest and abdominal pain-weird crampy muscle type pain in the middle of my chest, some general tenderness and soreness around the rib cage. My new doctor is thinking it could be some small gallstones the first ultrasound didn't pick up, maybe some inflammation of the rib cage and/or the recovery from fatty liver. They are not sure, but they still haven't ruled out autoimmune hepatitis because I am ANA and SMA positive (slightly).
I have a similar situation - up and down enzymes for years they bump up and then normalize, Ultrasound shows fatty liver, MRI seemed to support that, but they say you don't know until they do a biopsy, so I'm thinking about this. Live in Chicago too. I also had once tested slightly high on two different autoimmunce markers but the docs didn't seem to think it was autoimmune hep since they are not that high (the enzymes). This has been going on for 25 years - so I took all the tests to a major hospital in Chicago, but that is anxiety producing do to all the TIME they take to call you back, etc. (unlike family doctors). Hoping for the best results and for all on this board.
