Goodmorning everyone.
My partner has cirrhosis of liver he has had it a while now, recently he has got really tired and has quiet bad lower back pain. Doctors and specialist are no help. Could this be a bug he has picked up and can't shake off or is it something to do with the cirrhosis?
Is the pain in the kidney area? Have they run some recent kidney tests. Liver damage can often impact the kidneys too.
Hi its the lower back area he had bloods done a few months back and would be due some more soon
The tiredness could definitely be liver related. I couldn't say the same for the back pain though. It wasn't something that particularly troubled me. I couldn't rule it out either though, but it wouldn't be my first thoughts.
If the tiredness and back pain started around similar time then it may well be something else, possibly an injury or an infection somewhere. A back injury can come from just sitting in the wrong position or with poor posture for too long (i do speak from experience there, lol). With cirrhosis, you are more susceptible to both and of course muscle weakness and some musculoskeletal issues can also occur as a result of cirrhosis too. Hence me getting splinters from sitting on the fence in my first paragraph, lol.
So in a roundabout way, the issues you refer to, could be linked to the cirrhosis, but could also be caused by quite a few other things. It's therefore likely to be a bit of a process of elimation required to rule out the more common causes of both before settling on whether it is just a complication of cirrhosis or not.
Sorry for answering, and not answering, your question at the same time. I shall go and get my tweezers to remove more splinters (or possibly replace my fence).
Brilliant! And nicely put - I agree
Hi, if you’re worried I’d ring his liver nurse to get advice. They might talk to his consultant and order more tests, or they might advise him to see his GP. Better to get it checked out than to leave it and worry
Thankyou readlotsHe doesn't have a liver nurse? Only a specialist and GP?
In that case I’d contact the GP and/ or the consultants secretary. You can usually get their number off a letter or from the hospitals main switchboard.
I try to speak to his GP but they are not interested in helping I'm in the process of making a complaint about the GP and the specialist rings us once every 3-4 months to ask if anything is changed, I have asked questions and the reply I get is speak to the GP. We really have been batted from pillar to post, I just don't understand why nobody is I terested in helping us. We were told he should have a dietitian but that has not been provided, the pains are getting alot worse and he is getting very tired all the time, legs are a huge problem, always swelling up and he is in pain when walking, his back has started hurting even when sitting and now has pain in an arch shape over his tummy, I'm just at such a loss as to what to do for him now.
Sorry to rant on 😔
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