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