So was all happy my liver showed up fine on the echo, but apparently my liver enzymes were twice as high as they should be, by itself not really alarming if it weren't that, it has been for some time.
5Worse of it all is no doctor ever bothered to tell me, it's always been my bloodsugar is okay etc etc, but not this.
So i was like wth, and what does it mean for me etc? But since time was apparently up as it came last second, she kinda cut me off and said the important thing is you stopped drinking and it could recover, funny thing is how she compared it to a car and the outside might look nice, but the inside could still have it's issues, as i did it myself to a friend when she said don't worry your echo proved fine, but i was like yeah the outside atleast. Q

sBut i am googling and you will find alot of worrying things when it comes to higher liver enzymes, and i am even thinking what if it's hepatitis etc etc? Though i don't have any symptoms except for fatigue.

Melisand recommended milk thistle in a previous thread, and at that time i thought i wouldn't need it, but i am going to try this, there are even some medical studies that showed it could help your liver in some extend.
So trying that a few weeks, and again getting blood tests done and hoping for the best :). j

LSo cars, livers, whatever always check under hood.

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Also this stupid spelling which i can't seem to turn off Always seems to spell it with a capital A. :/

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Using Chrome? Settings > Advanced > Languages > Spell Check > Custom Words - Delete "Always" if it's there - or any other bad words.
Firefox and other browsers should have similar custom dictionaries.

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Edge.

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You can try this maybe:
Use the Windows key + R keyboard shortcut to open the Run command.
Type the following path and click OK.
%APPDATA%\Microsoft\Spelling
Inside the Spelling folder, you'll see one or more folders depending on the languages you have installed on Windows 10. Double-click the folder that corresponds to your language (e.g., en-US for English).
Double-click the default.dic file to open with Notepad.
The default.dic file contains all the saved words that you manually added. The only thing left to do is to remove the incorrect words and save the file as you would normally do with any Notepad file.

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Thanks will try that.

Never knew about that.

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It's possible you added "Always" to the dictionary - if so, that will appear in the .dic file - so you can just delete it - or - you could add custom words that Win10 (Including Edge) don't recognise, thereby accepting that spelling in the future.

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It's a brand new windows installation.

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I don't know what your story is but yeah I would ask about getting tested for Hepatitis A,B,C just to sure. People can have it for years and not necessarily exhibit any outward symptoms.

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I been tested for it (blood atleast) year(s)? ago, i do so many i don't keep track on what happened when.
But i need happy thoughts (and this is actually what i fear atm). ;)

https://www.steamgifts.com/discussion/g0pV1/congratulations-updated-on-what-my-drinking-habits-were-if-anyone-is-interested

In very short though it's just don't drink.

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Hope everything gets better, good luck :)

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Thanks. :) and is it Christmas for you every day? :p

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Thank you for making me chuckle :d
Well I love christmas :p

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I once saw on tv a couple that kept their whole house filled with Christmas ornaments the whole year through.
So maybe something for you too? :p

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Maybe :d

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I had someone buy me some milk thistle but I found out through a youtube video that it can affect how your other medications can be released in your body. I asked my doctor about it and she said I should avoid taking it for now. Anyway I hope you will be ok, and I think you should ask your doctor if it is ok to take milk thistle if you are on other meds.

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Thanks i haven't heard about that, but i only have to take 1 pill for diabetes type 2, but apparently that thistle also lowers the blood sugars (it's like effective for 7 things, though increased breast milk would not count for me). :p

I will only try it 2-3 weeks, then get my blood tested, if it messes up the blood sugar i can Always just quit it again, but i could also test those levels at home.

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I've had a heart attack once.

It was right before I turned 27.

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That's young sometimes youngsters (especially sporters) die from unknown heart problems, it would be alot better if it was covered by our government/health care every kid could get their heart checked out once turn they turn 18 or something.

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I really hope everything turns out all right, Lugum.

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Thank you.

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don't overreact. If you start searching medical issues online, you'll find the worst possible outcome, no matter how remote. It's probably not a big deal, just another thing to be aware of, and adjust your diet accordingly. (again be careful with the disinformation available online. half the articles are written by people who have no idea what they're talking about)

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I second this, the internet is great for many things but for medical advice its often more paranoia-inducing than useful

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I think it's better to overreact than being impervious to a potentially life threatening disease. Just do a check up instead of doing your own research.... If the doctor seems unconvincing you should get a second opinion.

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Yeah but it's doable i think as long as you are able not to dwell into believing just the worse, when i would do the echo i also searched like could a liver recover? And i thought the worse, but there were enough sites that would say it can all recover.
I can not find 1 site saying oh higher liver enzymes you will recover, it's nothing bad, no they all point to bad things, that's here the difference

And yes might be very unlikely i have something life threatening but i really do (once life gets better) to become atleast 100, with the amount of games i have and the backlog, i have to be. :p

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I think WebMD is sponsored by Colon Cancer. You put in almost anything... Colon Cancer at the top

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I'm glad that your liver is okay! It's a good idea to keep an eye on those enzymes, but be very wary of Google. Google gives information; not knowledge. Even barring that a lot of what you find online isn't accurate, there's a difference between having information and knowing what that information really means. It sounds like you've finally gotten a good doctor, so stick to that; they're very difficult to find, at least here in the United States. I've been in the medical industry almost 20 years (will be July 1st), and I've seen doctors say some pretty shocking things in the "Where did you get your degree: the University of DUH!?" category.

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Well the outside is okay, those enzymes wouldn't it say it's not? (and yes the reasons could be plenty, even diabetes 2 (which i all did have to find myself, same as how even asiprin can make it elevated,or try milk thistle, nothing the doctor told me, she was only like get your blood tested again) and yes alot online might not be correct, but sometimes you just have to use some judgement.
She was more knowdledgeable but her manners left alot to be desired (there were other things too i won't mention here), it's a building with several doctors and sometimes you get a new one, not knowing you, doesn't have the right knowledge etc etc.

Seriously thinking about changing doctor, maybe just where just 1 person works.

Well there also doctors that will simply hate you (here) when you try to come with your own knowledge, and go like who studied here for a bunch of years you or me.."Funny thing" though i even saw (younger) doctors just google stuff themselves.

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You do have to use your own judgment, yes, but a good (and I emphasize good) doctor's judgment is better, because they have the years of experience and training to know what they're actually looking at when they look things up online. For example, anyone could look up Zegerid and find out that it's used for treating acid reflux. If I look it up, I go in already knowing that it can be for that, but also that it's just Omeprazole (Prilosec) compounded with Sodium Bicarbonate, the latter of which is an outdated antacid they used to use in the 1940s, so you're paying $20-40 more for your prescription than you really need to. A pharmacist could look up that same information and be able to tell you that it can, in certain situations, help out with acute heart disease, because it can help with an ion imbalance, and can explain the connection between a heart attack and why one of the symptoms can be indigestion. So while it does concern me when i hear that a doctor just looked something up on Google, it's not usually as dangerous as it is for someone else to do it and self-diagnose, because they're plugging that information into their own knowledge.

If you're in a place where you don't get the same doctor every time, and you're having a chronic issue, I'd definitely find somewhere that you can always see the same one, if you can. If you're just going in for a sinus infection or something like that, it's okay to be seeing different doctors, but with something like this, getting one who knows you, or is getting to know you is very important. It's even more important if you're going to be trying Milk Thistle; herbals like that can work, even where traditional medicine fails, but it hasn't been tested as rigorously, and isn't as regulated, so while the amount of it in each capsule is more-or-less the same, each plant can be more or less potent than the next, so dosage isn't always consistent, either.

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I wish you a good health and many years to live πŸ‘πŸ»

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Thanks. πŸ‘πŸ» Actually was just replying to someone else i want to become atleast 100 (in good health), have to be with my backlog.

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πŸ™πŸ™Many wishes to you.

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Thank you.

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Same here.

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Also higher liver enzymes? Did you drink alcohol, you changing diet stuff?

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Yes, higher liver enzymes. And nobody able to tell me why. And no medicine I take ever helps. And no, I don't drink alcohol.
Right now it even got worse, but that's probably because of medications I take because of other issues.

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That sucks to hear, i don't know if you exercize, but that could also help, is free, and doubt hurts anything if you would try.

I am going to try this Milk Thistle thing, but someone else here said a doctor wouldn't recommend it with other meds (might depend on the meds you are taking) maybe you could discuss it, up to yourself if you want to try it out, look up some information about it to see if you believe it might work, it's not expensive, also beetjuice which is even cheaper and you could find in a supermarket (normal beets would be better).

I think often mother nature has plenty of stuff that could help us with issues we are having (i hate alot of vegetables though so why i'm only eating selected few) i couldn't eat beets, beetjuice i'd probably try with my nose pinched. :p

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I took Milk Thistle - based medicine for some time, with no results. Hopefully it will help you better.
Also I can't do excercizes now, because of heart issues.

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Thanks, seems you are in a bit of a bind then :x except maybe change of diet.

Hope you can find something eventually that can help you too.

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Hi Lugum. I wouldn't recommend checking on google your symptoms, instead I keep track of my values from my yearly blood analysis. If any value has a not-so-ok trend, then I will check with a doctor, just to be sure. They also mention the recommended values and the 'safe' limits on the results.
Stay healthy man !

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Thanks.

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Hope it gets better :/

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Thanks.

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this reminds me to take that health check for people aged 35+. i don't even know how and when that happend. Β―_(ツ)_/Β―
at least i feel and look great (again).
yet at the same time it's always the things you don't see coming that get you.

best of luck to you!
and don't forget to stay angry.

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You don't know how you turned 35+? :p

Anything can Always happen to anyone, like those youngsters playing soccer or some sport and die right there because of their heart.
But then again most of us just put so much garbage in our body, it's cliche but we should treat it with respect and maybe a bit as a temple.

Thanks.

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what can i say? time flies when you're having fun. and even more so if you don't have any fun at all.

basically everything in life is a matter of finding a good balance. you can have too little or too much of everything there is.
if i recall correctly there were some cases of sudden death among pro cyclists. turns out they were trained so well that their hearts slowed down so much during rest they basically died of cardiac arrest.

and there are always the things that may happen to you without you being able to do anything about it. like dying in a train accident while you're on your way home on friday afternoon. better not to worry about these things...

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I kind of wasted* almost 10 years at the university trying to become a programmer, because nobody made me see a doctor earlier for some mental issues. I was simply trying so hard to compensate stuff like ADS and function despite social and other phobias - without meds or truely understanding the issue, that it almost broke me.
Now that I got some help, I finished best of my class and got a job in IT-Support (2nd level), I even encountered a more extreme example of how dagerous ignoring the syntoms can be: After mentioning my Autism, one of the customers that I was helping with a lengthly cpomputer problem opened up to me and told me that when he finally went to a see a specialist about his gale stones, he was told that he would most likely have died within 2 months otherwise. He had developed a rare case of Autoimmune Response, meaning that his immune system was attacking his organs.

*Well that is a bit harsh to say, since I have learned a lot that I am still interested in or can use in my job

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But sometimes symptoms can just be really vague, the only thing i got is fatigue (but that could have a million reasons also recovering from the alcohol) and sometimes my side troubling me (no pain but just i dunno how to describe it, nagging) usually that only happened after i drank alcohol, but now it comes sometimes especially when i had little sleep.
Sometimes they are so vague for people a doctor would also dismiss them, but if you ever have pain or swelling that sort of stuff offcourse you should never ignore that.

Good you found some help and could get an education and a job yourself,

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Hope you keep healthy Lugum, good that you're maintaining the inner bits of the car! It's definitely easy to neglect and push it off til "later."

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Thank you, and yeah when you got a bruised knee you put a bandaid on, if you really hurt your arm we all go have it checked out, but usually the insides, the organs we don't see so why we tend to neglect it more or the problems usually coming later.
Bit of a design flaw our liver can regenerate but not everything. :p

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My best wishes Lugum, hope you don't keep finding seious problems. Take care for yourself the best you can.

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Thank you.

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