hi everyone, I have cirrhosis but since quitting alcolohol 19 month ago my alt levels have been around 40 I have not had bloods taken for few month until last week and now my alt is 90, nurse said normally due to painkillers which I never take, got to get bloods repeated 6 weeks, any idea why they are raised? Could my liver be getting worse?
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statins are bad for ALT, and some other prescription meds. even some vitamins and herbs u got to be careful with. if u started on some new med or vitamin then stop it and see if it resolved. I have had raised ALT from statins and from some blood pressure meds.
ALT levels can fluctuate during the course of a day by a great amount. A 60 in the morning could be a 90 at night. (It kinda makes me wonder why ALT and AST are even looked at). Surely they took other readings as well. Since you didn't mention them as worrisome, I would rest easy and consider this a one-off.
They took alsorts of reading but was so much all I remember was my alt was 90 and my calcium and iron slightly low, am not worried just have never been raised since I took bad
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