Enlarged Liver!!

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Hello everyone:

I have been offline for a few weeks, dealing with kidney stones. When at the

hospital they did a scan of my abdomen and found that my liver is enlarged.

Anyone know what this means? I googled it and I got many reasons and that

it's a symptom of another problem.

????

--

Zurama

Mickie 13yrs

Round #47

25mg DMSA 25mg ALA

Autistic by Injection <http://mickiesprogress.blogspot.com>

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When I was eighteen I bought some food at a fast food restaurant on my way

home from work. Then I became terribly ill. It took a while -- a long

while to get a right diagnosis, but I had salmonella. By the time I was

diagnosed my liver was enlarged and I had albumin in my urine. the doc said

that was a sign of liver damage. Check albumin in your urine. thank god

the liver can heal/regenerate.

It took me a long time to recover, and I wound up having some kidney

problems too with stones on three occasions, but I got through it.

The kidney stones and problems disappeared when I gave up Dr. Pepper. Now I

rarely ever drink anything carbonated. My urologist years ago told me Dr.

Pepper was very high in oxalates. I don't know if that is true or not, but

once I gave it up, I have had no more stones in thirty years. (Okay, I have

a sip once in a while but just a sip on rare occasions.)

My brother too adored Dr. Pepper and had kidney problems. He stopped

drinking it and his kidneys are now fine.

In my case, the enlarged liver resulted in having salmonella poisoning for a

while before I got the right diagnosis. It took me ten years before I could

go near that restaurant again!

Have you had any nausea, vomiting, or pain in the upper right quadrant?

When Mine was enlarged this area would ache so badly!

Hope you feel better soon. When i was sick, for some reason the only thing

I was able to keep down was apple juice. I drank a lot of apple juice and

got a lot of rest.

Haven

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Thank you for responding......

I don't know about the albumin level now-I'll have to look into that. My

urologist took a sample on Monday. I had nausea and vomiting, the day after

the worse pain, with shivers and high fever. Then about a week later after

being in antibiotics for days y still had a low grade fever and that went on

for about a week. Now I feel five. Will have another scan next Tuesday, then

the doctor will tell me the best way to get rid of the 15 centimeters of

stone or cluster that is still mid way in my kidney. At the hospital two

weeks ago, when I was feeling terrible, the Albumin was 3.6- I don't where

it should be.

I have noticed over the years, since about 2000 I get a sharp pain behind my

right ribs, but it hasn't happened lately. I don't drink doctor pepper,

never liked it. I do drink pepsi once in a while. I've have had a problem

with kidney stones since about the same time as that pain. I didn't know at

the time, but there is scaring in my left kidney, so I had been passing

stones since then.

I thought it had to do with drinking to much tap water, which I had done for

years-not anymore! I read at the Urologist office that drinking 100% Orange

juice helped prevent kidney stones.

I wounder if taking Milk Thistle is a good idea at this point??

Z

On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 12:37 AM, Haven DeLay <hdelay@...> wrote:

>

>

> When I was eighteen I bought some food at a fast food restaurant on my way

> home from work. Then I became terribly ill. It took a while -- a long

> while to get a right diagnosis, but I had salmonella. By the time I was

> diagnosed my liver was enlarged and I had albumin in my urine. the doc said

> that was a sign of liver damage. Check albumin in your urine. thank god

> the liver can heal/regenerate.

>

> It took me a long time to recover, and I wound up having some kidney

> problems too with stones on three occasions, but I got through it.

>

> The kidney stones and problems disappeared when I gave up Dr. Pepper. Now I

> rarely ever drink anything carbonated. My urologist years ago told me Dr.

> Pepper was very high in oxalates. I don't know if that is true or not, but

> once I gave it up, I have had no more stones in thirty years. (Okay, I have

> a sip once in a while but just a sip on rare occasions.)

>

> My brother too adored Dr. Pepper and had kidney problems. He stopped

> drinking it and his kidneys are now fine.

>

> In my case, the enlarged liver resulted in having salmonella poisoning for

> a

> while before I got the right diagnosis. It took me ten years before I could

> go near that restaurant again!

>

> Have you had any nausea, vomiting, or pain in the upper right quadrant?

> When Mine was enlarged this area would ache so badly!

>

> Hope you feel better soon. When i was sick, for some reason the only thing

> I was able to keep down was apple juice. I drank a lot of apple juice and

> got a lot of rest.

>

> Haven

>

>