A pleasant surprise

[briccolone]

HI all-hope you're doing as well as expected.

About 10 mins ago my GP phoned me (he's working late like me) to tell me the results of my blood tests taken about 8 days ago.

Liver panel normal except for GGT which is low 90s.

Frankly-I'm gobsmacked.....my GGT a year or so ago was in the low 400s plus ALT slightly elevated.

So what's changed? Well-after a somewhat stressful year last year (family bereavement) etc. I was feeling a bit jaded so decided to do a dry-ish January-followed by February and March. Have only lost a couple of kilos and after a couple of painful dental visits with excessive toxic doses of painkillers and antibiotics I was fearing the worst.

My liver still feels "inflamed" but not showing up in the tests-however-I'm mighty encouraged with the digestive system normalising. There's plenty of work to do on diet and cholesterol which is high at at 6.7 but BP normal and no diabetes.

Message is I guess-despite years of excessive wine consumption-you can still reverse things...I'm 62 now-when I first found this forum-5 years ago or so my GGT levels were double what they are now.

All the best

[grace111]

Thats really great news I hope this is a much better year for you. wishing you well. love grace xoxo

[briccolone in reply to grace111]

thanks Grace

[4pjx__]

Great news and very encouraging! I have run into several of your posts and found them interesting. I was diagnosed with stage 3 fibrosis last May. I have PBC but I did enjoy a few glasses of wine in the evening up until a year ago Jan when they said my numbers were not good. Haha, when I stopped drinking the wine my lft's really shot up! I tea total but I did tell them I would like the wine back.😂

[briccolone in reply to 4pjx__]

I wish you all the best 4pjx -tbh I was pretty convinced that I was going to be stuck with raised GGT-I was more cocerned with the cardiovascular risk combined with High cholesterol-was considering statins....

[Millie09]

Hi broccolone ;

That's fantastic news 😊. Such an improvement , i have liver disease. 10 yrs now .ALD; but now fatty too . Really does go to show that things can turn around . Keep going. Thank you for your encouraging post. Linda xx

[briccolone in reply to Millie09]

thanks Linda best to you....

[Millie09 in reply to briccolone]

Thank you.

[Hidden]

This is excellent news and hopefully gives hope to those who are now in the same situation you once were. Thanks for sharing a good news post

[briccolone in reply to Hidden]

you're very welcome-not out of the woods yet but yes that's why I shared.......not sure why It had taken me so long to wake up and smell the coffee......best to you

[G1nny in reply to briccolone]

I’m in Texas; y’all talk a lot different than we do! I read yalls post every morning, your is pretty much my favorite one so far!

[briccolone in reply to G1nny]

good to have you on board G1nny!

[G1nny]

Wow, I love to hear this. Thanks for sharing, very encouraging.

[Hidden]

Hi

So pleased for you. Thanks for sharing

[briccolone in reply to Hidden]

Hi Lynne -sorry it sounds a bit trite-plenty of people on this forum struggling with conditions that aren't self-inflicted. But think you do need the occasional good news story....

[Hidden]

Yes, definitely. It was so good of you to share, cheered me up

[Damasc]

That's great news for you & your liver!