Advice on liver and kidney results on latest blood test

[Anne241262]

Diagnosed end of April, 2 days of intravenous pred @ 500, 1 day at intravenous @ 1mg and then onto 60, 50, 40, 35 - just started on 30 today. Bloods from 3rd June came back with liver and kidney markers out of range ....... steroids 🤷‍♀️

Have a slot to discuss the results with the surgery pharmacy - she wanted to speak to me - no way I want take any more pharmaceuticals - any thoughts?

[piglette]

Will you have to go on to kidney dialysis in that case?

[PMRpro Ambassador]

Honestly can't remember anyone with those markers being out of range on pred alone. Are you on anything else?

However, high dose methylprednisolone is associated with liver effects. In this case report the liver values returned to normal over a period of a few weeks without any medication. I assume it depends how bad it is.

ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articl...

I can't find anything about kidney problems though,

However - if you need medication to help sort it out, it would be silly to refuse them out of hand. Doctors are unlikely to offer you anything not necessary.

Please can you complete your profile page bio with some details like history. diagnosis, dose of pred and how you have tapered so far. Otherwise we are commenting in a complete vacuum and may be telling you absolute rubbish!

[AtopicGuy]

Congratulations! Prompt, emergency intervention with powerful "pharmaceuticals" may have stopped you going permanently blind! Hopefully, your GCA can now be controlled with much lower doses, causing ever-weaker side effects, and will eventually go into remission. That would seem the lesser of two evils. Not everyone (including some members of this forum) is so lucky.