Were you surprised by how advanced your liver disease was at diagnosis?

[nash2]

Would it surprise you to learn it is the standard practice to wait until you are ill to worry about liver disease?

EXCERPTS FROM THE AASLD PRACTICE GUIDELINES 2017

It can be argued that there should be systematic screening for NAFLD, at least among higher-risk individuals attending diabetes and obesity clinics

Screening for NAFLD in adults attending primary care clinics or high-risk groups attending diabetes or obesity clinics is not advised at this time due to uncertainties surrounding diagnostic tests and treatment options, along with lack of knowledge related to the long-term benefits and cost-effectiveness of screening.

What do you think of that?

[Careful1]

Agree

[RainydaySuperstar]

I think high rish individuals such as those with antitryspin deficiency, anyone who has ever been on IV Solumedrol, HCV patients, anyone who has ever had drug induced hepatitis or taken INH etc should be screened. It angers me that I had all sorts of things that could have been slowed or maybe prevented if I had only known. But I didn't know u til it was too late.

[nash2 Partner in reply to RainydaySuperstar]

That was the thing that shocked me so when I found out. The fact that we don't screen now that we have the technical ability to do so really is immoral to me. I realize that we don't have much in the way of pills but we aren't helpless. There are decisions we can make that matter before we get sick. It makes me angry every time I think about it which is why I started the foundation. In case you haven't been there yet this is a link to what we want to do to help fix it.

Wayne

fattyliverfoundation.org/sc...