Re: Just when life was going fairly?? good....along comes the truck..

[Guest guest]

Louise,

Will keep you in my prayers and send a tow truck to get that other

truck away from you!

Judi

[Guest guest]

Louise, I'm very sorry that you're worried.

1) Ascites doesn't necessarily indicate cancer.

2) Didn't you have abdominal ascites a few months ago? What did your

doctors decide the cause was then?

I'll tell you where to go!

Mayo Clinic in Rochester

http://www.mayoclinic.org/rochester

s Hopkins Medicine

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org

[ ] Just when life was going fairly?? good....along

comes the truck..

>

> Dear ; Have been reading every post as usual...Going to my

rheumy

> as usual...then this. I had Hepatitis B in the 1970's way before the

Hep B

> Vaccine was in existence. Got stuck by a needle when I was in the

military

> during a code on a Gastroenterology floor... Everyone had some type of

> Hepatitis there. got Hep B ,and have been a carrier since then. My

rheumy

> has been very careful of my liver function tests. Have them done once

> monthly because of the methotrexate. Went into my family Doc.. had

nausea,

> and abdominal pain, thought I had gall bladder symptoms.. Had the

abdominal

> ultrasound this am. Now I have abdominal ascites.. Cause yet unknown.

At

> this point Family Doc and Rheumy putting heads together. No tests

ordered as

> of yet. .I knew I had a greater chance of getting Liver Cancer,but my

liver

> function tests have always been normal.

> Any case of methotrexate induced ascites?...And could the

ascites be

> cancer with the liver as a primary site. Also... How could all this

happen

> with normal liver function tests..I am very confused....Hellos to

> all...Louise