Hi All,
I've not been on the board in SO long! things have been going well for me. I have been incredibly busy with my family, and work has been super busy. We were already busy last fall when Tropical Storm Irene hit Vermont hard. My town was largely spared from the destruction by a flood control dam, but many of the communities around us were devestated. I was on response teams evaluating infrastruction for VTrans as well as responding to a community where one of my co-workers lives where the logged 80 some odd individual projects with FEMA for damaged and destroyed bridges, culverts, and road washouts. The damage around the state was unfathomable!
Through all this, I had a routine physical and my blood work showed elevated liver enzymes. My GP sent me to a specialist, who ran more blood work, which all came back normal, except for the elevated enzymes, and maybe some elevated iron although she said since the 2 tests I've had with her weren't fasting so that could be in inacurate read. I also had an ultrasound. So right now the diagnosis - fatty liver disease. It was recommended that I lose weight....I need to lose at least 5% of my body weight. Well, I have been losing and gaining the same 2 pounds ever since. When I cut back on my food intake (to between 1800 and 2300 calories a day) I'm super hungry. And the increased exercise has made me stronger, but not resulted in any weight loss.
So, I had a follow up with the specialist Monday, and she thinks I should do a gluten trial so I can be re-tested for celiac. She thinks it's posible that because I'm not completely gluten free (I don't have a super strong reaction to small amounts of gluten so from time to time I do eat chinese food that i'm sure isn't gf (maybe once or twice a month), and one weekend morning DH and I go out for breakfast and the home fries I get are not gf) that it could be causing inflamation in my liver. UGH. I don't know what to do...is it the weight, is it the lack of discretion in the gluten front, is it my other interolerances which I'm even less strict on (soy and poultry)....
I've had more than my share of medical issues (In my opinion) and I'm tired of trying to figure it all out.
Hope you all are well.
Katy
Anyone with fatty liver here? Been away along time!
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kate_ce1995
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Hi Katy,
Welcome back. Yep, hypertransaminasemia is commonly associated with celiac disease, and research shows that the markers are usually resolved by a gluten-free diet, if gluten is the cause. If you want to resolve the problem regardless of the cause, the paleo diet will both regulate your weight, and resolve the gluten issue.
Untreated, it can lead to autoimmune hepatitis. We have one member, slightly younger than you, who recently received that diagnosis.
Tex
Welcome back. Yep, hypertransaminasemia is commonly associated with celiac disease, and research shows that the markers are usually resolved by a gluten-free diet, if gluten is the cause. If you want to resolve the problem regardless of the cause, the paleo diet will both regulate your weight, and resolve the gluten issue.
Untreated, it can lead to autoimmune hepatitis. We have one member, slightly younger than you, who recently received that diagnosis.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7657290We conclude that in adult celiac patients elevated serum transaminases are a frequent finding and normalize in most cases after GFD.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10201490We present the cases of four patients sent to a liver unit for evaluation of persistent hypertransaminasemia in whom celiac disease was finally discovered.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.