Question:
I am 7 months post op

Today I got my blood work from my PCP to take to the surgeon and my liver enzymes are WAY Up , They are normally 44 which is still elevated but now they are 104 .. Why is this happening? The doctor before said it was fat around my liver but IM loosing the fat so why is it going higher .. ACK im worried ..    — Catherine B (posted on October 14, 2003)

October 14, 2003
Ask your doctor. Tell him of your concerns and ask him for an explanation.
   — Patty_Butler

October 15, 2003
This also happened to me at about 4 months out. Mine had been fine and than it went to 200. My PCP re-tested and it came back the same. We did a bunch of other blood work, and then re-tested again in 6 weeks. It came down to 46 which is still a fatty liver. My doctor was puzzled why this happened, but relieved it came back down. Maybe our systems are going through so much change that things get messed up. Good luck.
   — Sue F.

October 15, 2003
Check the Library on this. My liver enzymes also shot up after being normal until I was about 8 months post-op. They've stayed elevated since then (I'm 16 months out now), but they're slowly dropping to normal. Neither my bariatric surgeon nor my endocronologist had any idea why, but having checked the Library, I see that one theory is that the enzymes may be affected by all the fat processed by our livers as we lose weight. I don't know if it's true, but I do know mine are dropping steadily and I expect them to be back to normal before too much longer. I do know I have no other signs of liver disease, however, so I'm not sweating it anymore (unless they don't drop back to normal). I've read that taking milk thistle may help bring them back into the normal range, too.
   — Suzy C.

October 16, 2003
Since I am still pre-surgery I can't directly answer the question about liver enzymes post-surgery. I was on some anti-fungal medications earlier in the year (Diflucan and Sporanox) because I had a nasty systemic yeast infection that gave me spots all over my body and major vaginal distress. I had blood work done in March that showed my liver enzymes slightly out of range, I went off the meds and a month later redid the blood work to find my ALT was 527 (now that is darned high and scared the crapola out of me). My doctor had me begin taking Milk Thistle and alpha lipoic acid supreme 125 mg (both 3 times a day) and I retested a month later to find that I was down over half of the 527 number and a follow up test another month later had me totally back in the normal range. I am finishing up my milk thistle since I bought it and just to make sure to kill the beast - haha. The reason why I am posting is because they helped me go back to normal numbers.
   — Arizona_Sun