Understanding blood results

[Chris-harris]

Hi All,

I was diagnosed with Cirrhosis child Pugh C decompensated in dec 2017, not been rated since but am no longer yellow, no ascites, sleeping ok, eating ok and noticed compensated written on last bloods request (back in February this year), I would assume around compensated B but that’s my guess.

I am not trying to score myself but admit to having little idea what the blood results mean.

For example my last bilirubin level was 40 in February, now this was 400+ at worse so 40 is great and is hopefully lower now, thing is I don’t know what 40 really means on the test results, when I google it, it mentions 1.9mg etc is good, how does this translate to 40, is that 40mg i.e not so good?

Anyway what I could do with, if anyone has anything handy, is a list of what the “normal” range is for the liver bloods, just so I have something to refer to that I understand when I have my bloods done.

Maybe just the important ones as I know when my DR and consultant go through my bloods they tend to skip over a couple and concentrate on others more.

Any help much appreciated

Take care,

Chris x

[Hidden]

Hi Chris,

Unfortunately, reference ranges for bloods can vary between laboratories so it is hard to comment on a generic 'normal' level. If you have your results to hand, there is usually a range reported that the results should ideally fall between and then if it is outside of that then it would be highlighted and your doctors would usually investigate.

You may find our publication 'liver disease tests explained' useful to look at;

britishlivertrust.org.uk/wp...

Could you maybe have a chat with your specialist nurse or consultant about this?

Warm wishes

Trust1

[Chris-harris in reply to Hidden]

Thanks

[Lea224]

Hi Chris.

While looking at my dad's latest bilirubin results I came across the same difficulty. I can't remember what it is... But if you divide by 17.1 it will give you the equivalent to what you are looking at. It's converting it to those levels.

But similarly by dad's is currently 470 so I was searching the same thing and found it on a doctors forum.

Hope that helps x

[davianne]

Hi Chris, If you have a set of your blood results, as I do, mine always have the normal ranges for the various constituents in brackets eg (10/25), and any out of normal range is in bold type with an asterix. You can ask your surgery to put you on the online "Patient Access" app, and you can see all results on there. hope this helps.

David

[Kristian]

Hi Chris, if you want to find your own labs reference ranges most hospital labs nowpost theirs on line somewhere. Just do a search for your local hospital lab reference ranges and see what comes up.

[Cat-B]

Ask for a print out of your bloods, the normal range for your lab is next to the number and to further help a*next to a result means it high or low ie out of range (drs think they’re so clever reading blood results when actually the lab takes any confusion out of the equation lol). Come back to me if you need more help, sounds like you’re doing really well, keep at it. X

[Chris-harris]

thanks all for the help

[Ally1966]

Hi Chris I ask for a print out of my blood results and the normal number is in brackets with yours results beside in darker bolder writing or in my case in red writing. Always have an asterix beside. I'm the same and we really should ask more about our results. Take care and God bless xoxox