Fatty liver

Anybody here been diagnosed with a fatty liver? I have. You can get one if you have diabetes and high cholesterol, but I no longer have those. I understand from Googling it that you can also get it if you've lost a lot of weight relatively quickly (like developing gallstones, the only difference being that I NEED my liver). This is one result of WLS my Bariatric Center didn't tell me about, but according to the Google sources it has been associated with WLS. I have an e-mail in to my Bariatric Center asking them questions about it, but I was curious. I also want to know what your doctor had you do to fix it, and how dangerous it might be. I've lost over 90 pounds and my mother has started calling me Bony (a Wow moment for sure), and I don't have that much belly fat anymore I don't think, but I have a fatty liver. Geez. Ya can't win, it seems sometimes. Thanks. Marcia

Marcia, sorry to hear about this. It makes sense though. As we lost weight, we forced our livers to do some heavy duty processing of everything. I know when my blood tests came back at my one year appt that my liver enzymes were elevated. Not enough to freak out but not normal either. MY Dr just plans on waiting to see how things work out since he felt that alot was related to flushing so much fat thru my system in a relatively short amount of time. Best of luck!

Marcia my son has a fatty liver and his liver enzymes were threw the roof and they send us to ucla to have him evaluated and they said being he is morbid obese it will take time to reverese the effects of the fatty liver and they said eating a low fat diet and weight loss will reduce the fatty liver but for them they were worried about the liver panal not the fack his liver was fat. his numbers have improved over time but they are still very eleveted. they did say no drinking alcohol or coffee and watch tylenol consumption and drink lots of water will help but just losing weight will help the liver to function better, they said they only worry about liver enzymes if it triples they told me . His only went 2 1/2 times Lisa

I had a fatty liver before surgery. I probably have a super morbidly obese one now! Shar

I had a fatty liver before surgery. I probably have a super morbidly obese one now! Shar

I had a fatty liver before surgery. I probably have a super morbidly obese one now! Shar

Thanks, all. I appreciate your replies. They all help. I am going in for an ultrasound Monday afternoon; I guess we'll see then the extent of it. From what you tell me it sounds as if it will take awhile for the fat to clear out of the liver; obviously it became that way while I was still fat, and, to your point, my poor liver had to endure all that fat flushing out of my system. I'm hoping he'll decide just to watch it and see what happens as my diet now is much better (and far less fatty - fried? What does that mean?) than it used to be. But if he puts me on medicine, so be it. The point is to be healthy, whatever that takes. I appreciate you all so much. Marcia