I have been feeling Nausea, fatigue, loss of appetite and have been gettin anxious and depressed since last week when i found out i had liver damage
There are many causes of liver cell damage:
alcohol consumption, medication toxification,
chemical exposure, mushroom poisoning,
biliary obstruction/malformation/infection,
viral infection, parasite infections,
hereditary disease, auto immune disease,
fatty liver disease and others.
It depends on the cause of the liver damage and
how serious the liver damage is.
Tiredness usually stays all the time in liver disease.
When the liver cells become damage, the immune
system of the body responds to this damage and
causes inflammation to develop inside the liver
(this can cause the liver to enlarge in size).
These symptoms can start to go away, that you
mentioned, if the cause is found and can be stopped
so the liver cells will heal. if not, then the they may
continue. It sounds like the doctor is believing that
it hasn't reached the stage where it cannot be reversed…
which is very good.
Any inflammation of the liver by any cell-damage cause is known as
Hepatitis. Cirrhosis of the liver is advance stage of liver cell damage;
it means that the liver cells have started to die off and formed scar
tissue inside the liver. This is then not reversible. It becomes
a progressive disease where the liver cells continue to die off
slowly or fast (depending on the cause, or if the cause can be
stopped).
To find out you have a disease, is like someone saying your life
will end very soon. you also go through alot of unknowns. What
the doctors will do to you, whether your dreams for your life
will disappear, what is really important in your life and the way
you look at it. It is terrible hard to swallow for anyone. especially,
when you are so young with your whole life ahead of you.
I would not take any medications unless it is absolutely necessary
as most all medications go through the liver, to be broken down,
before going to the rest of the body. Liver patient are told to only
take medications that are approved of or prescribed by their doctors.
It depends on the amount of damage done to the liver cells if a
medication should be discontinues, changed, or have a lower dose
that the liver still is able to convert.
Another thing: It would be best to try and stay as healthy as you can.
Try not to be around others who are sick or they have been around
others who are sick. Wash all fresh fruits and vegetable that people
finger over in the stores, avoid open salad bars where people can
accidentally sneeze or cough into them, use disinfectant wipes on
shopping cart handles, door knobs, Tv controllers, phones,
bathroom fixtures, etc. Becoming sick with something else right
now will weaken your body more and force you to take additional
medications.
I hope this information has been of some help to you. Best wishes.
Hope you soon start to feel much better.
Although the liver is the only organ that will repair itself, it doesn't happen over night.
Depending on what caused the damage and the extent of the damage, it could take a long time to heal.
Your doctor should be able to help you with the nausea, and fatigue. He might also prescribe an anti-depressant if you find you can't cope on your own.
3 months or so. Did he tell you what you have. Is it fibrosis, cirrhosis, or fatty liver. some are reversible some aren't. never drink or do drugs again. Alot of it is tainted.You'll be glad.