Shut Up, Liver, You're Fine.
Apr. 16th, 2024 07:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pshaw_ravenI finally got all my imaging results and blood panels back, and the doctor's office has set a follow up appointment.
Nothing. Aside from that ceruloplasmin being a little low, there's a lot of use of the words "normal," and "unremarkable." I don't even have deep-tissue liver scarring or stiffening, no signs of cirrhosis, NAFLD, no kidney problems, no pancreatic problems, no bile duct weirdness.
So why in the world do my liver enzymes get "elevated" every six months or so? In the absence of an internal problem, I have to assume something I'm doing is causing my liver to get angry every so often, but looking back over my testing history, I can't figure it out. I only drink alcohol when we're on a Disney trip. I don't eat huge amounts of processed foods. The only thing I wonder about is perhaps it's the ramping up of marathon training, where I'm doing 50 or 60 mile weeks, but I doubt anyone's going to tell me to stop.
Obviously running a marathon, itself, isn't healthy. It's hell on your body. Training to run a marathon is a different thing, and could be looked at as being pretty good for you. The first time I started marathon training, I found I naturally wanted to improve my diet and sleep so I'd feel better running, and a whole cascade of lifestyle changes came from it.
But anyway, I'm not even meeting with the doctor himself, "just" a nurse practitioner. LOL. I also my an appointment with my GP the same week, but I'm getting all this out of the way before our trip at the end of the month and I can just enjoy myself without it hanging over me. We're going for a little trip to Disney, mostly to visit the Epcot Flower & Garden Festival, which we both really like. So next week I'll also be pulling the camper out and getting all that ready to go. No races that weekend, either. But we'll be there for the change from April to May, so we'll get to have two different Gideon's cookies, and probably a new set of ice cream flavors at Salt & Straw.
I don't know if now they're going to test more and do something like the biopsy, or just shrug and say, "If you feel all right then keep doing whatever you're doing."
Nothing. Aside from that ceruloplasmin being a little low, there's a lot of use of the words "normal," and "unremarkable." I don't even have deep-tissue liver scarring or stiffening, no signs of cirrhosis, NAFLD, no kidney problems, no pancreatic problems, no bile duct weirdness.
So why in the world do my liver enzymes get "elevated" every six months or so? In the absence of an internal problem, I have to assume something I'm doing is causing my liver to get angry every so often, but looking back over my testing history, I can't figure it out. I only drink alcohol when we're on a Disney trip. I don't eat huge amounts of processed foods. The only thing I wonder about is perhaps it's the ramping up of marathon training, where I'm doing 50 or 60 mile weeks, but I doubt anyone's going to tell me to stop.
Obviously running a marathon, itself, isn't healthy. It's hell on your body. Training to run a marathon is a different thing, and could be looked at as being pretty good for you. The first time I started marathon training, I found I naturally wanted to improve my diet and sleep so I'd feel better running, and a whole cascade of lifestyle changes came from it.
But anyway, I'm not even meeting with the doctor himself, "just" a nurse practitioner. LOL. I also my an appointment with my GP the same week, but I'm getting all this out of the way before our trip at the end of the month and I can just enjoy myself without it hanging over me. We're going for a little trip to Disney, mostly to visit the Epcot Flower & Garden Festival, which we both really like. So next week I'll also be pulling the camper out and getting all that ready to go. No races that weekend, either. But we'll be there for the change from April to May, so we'll get to have two different Gideon's cookies, and probably a new set of ice cream flavors at Salt & Straw.
I don't know if now they're going to test more and do something like the biopsy, or just shrug and say, "If you feel all right then keep doing whatever you're doing."
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