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ALT & ALK exceptionally HIGH. Feeling very very anxious.

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Hi,

New here - this is my first post - hope all is OK.

My ALT & Alk. Phos blood test have, ‘gone thru the roof’!

I have been having monthly blood checks on the liver since April last year – numbers slowly reducing. My last monthly LFT was end of October, 2021 results being at the high end of normal - 44. GP thought a two-month gap would be OK.

LFT last Friday showed VERY high abnormal levels of ALT: 511 & Alk. Phos: 159 – really ABNORMAL!

GP has referred me to a hospital Consultant Gastroenterologist with the wording of, ‘urgent’.

This has got me seriously, VERY seriously worried.

Two months & the LFT’s go haywire…

I guess I’m looking for some re-assurance that I’m not going to, ‘kick the bucket’ any time soon. I have four grandchildren that I desperately want to see grow up.

Am I panicking … you bet I am!

I have no symptoms and consider myself reasonably fit for my age.

Take care.

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AyrshireK

Can I ask why you were getting monthly liver blood tests in the first place? Obviously GP has been keeping an eye on something.

The fact you have no symptoms is a good thing and hopefully a referral to hospital will identify why your bloods have sudden shot up - this could be something as simple as gall bladder issues or something.

You arn't going to 'kick the bucket' any time soon with just one set of wonky bloods but no symptoms.

Hospital will get to grips with whatever is going on.

Katie

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blaisepascal in reply to AyrshireK

Hi Katie,

Many thanks for your reply – really re-assuring!

I have NSIP and the hospital doc’ was doing his yearly assessment with me. As I was leaving, he shouted out, ‘… oh we might as well have some blood tests’. This is when the ALT went to just over 100. Since then, it was thought a monthly LFT would be the way forward. And the figures have been coming down. That is until last Friday.

Something is not quite right – yet I feel OK. I don’t drink alcohol nor do I smoke.

Really appreciate your help.

Take care

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AyrshireK in reply to blaisepascal

Sorry not familiar with NSIP - is that Non-specific interstitial pneumonia? There seems to be an auto immune element to that which a gastro might investigate as to whether you have some sort of AI thing going on with your liver too. When you have one auto immune condition it is quite common that the immune system starts on other body systems and certainly would tie in with an elevation of liver inflammation markers.

Katie

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blaisepascal in reply to AyrshireK

Yes, you are quite correct NSIP is ‘Non-specific interstitial pneumonia’. This was diagnosed nearly 20 years ago. And it is associated with the auto immune disorder. Could easily be a connection. Having said that for the ALT to go from 44 to 511 is more than a little worrying and in only 2 months.

From what you have said already, I think I might just sleep a little better tonight…

Thank you Katie.

Take care

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