Fibroscan is not scary. It is like a sonogram machine. It bounces sound off your liver area to create a sense of how stiff the liver is. There is a scale & chart that interprets the results. Your doctor will explain your results in context of those charts.
Sorry to be so late answering. Just got home from work. My GI prefers fibroscan vs biopsy. He says he gets a better overall liver condition as far as fibrosis. He does it once yearly. Much like an ultrasound, but different in its own way. My first showed mild fibrosis.
I did! I have PBC PSC overlap. My spleen in enlarged and by the MRI my liver is "morphologically cirrhotic" but my fibroscan was well in the normal range. 🤔. Like perfectly normal.... Go figure that one out...
They diagnosed me as "early cirrhosis" in April. I'm due for another round of imaging in 2 weeks. Very anxious to see how I'm looking now.
I was misdaignosed as PBC/ AIH overlap less than a year ago "pre-clinical" about 11 months now. I started Urso and Prednisone then. I do not have the AIH part of the diagnosis so I was started on Prednisone for no reason. 😡
I have not been tapered off the Prednisone yet so I still take it and Urso. My labs have improved, my alkaline phosphate was over 1200 last year this time & it's just under 300 now.
About 2 weeks until I go back. I'm hoping for good news. 🤞🏻
Why are you still taking Prednisone you should be weaning off it what does your consultant say re this. I too was mid diagnosed with the overlap and my new consultant go me to wean off the steroid straight away.
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