Abnormal liver results and rib pain

Silje

Abnormal liver results and rib pain

Silje

Hi,

 I just signed up on this site. I've been looking all over the internet for an answer to why my mother's liver results came back too high. That's all I know - too high, and that she says it's not a consequence of her pain meds. She has had four ops; they first removed a chunk of her left breast, then another one, then they removed it, and then they had to go in and fix a bleed. She's gone through 4 weeks of radiation (out of 5), and has rib pain (despite all the meds she's on) and, as mentioned earlier, elevated liver results. She seems worried about it, but refuses to tell me anything more. Not knowing what this might be is robbing me off my sleep and frankly driving me crazy.

Does anyone here have an inkling as to what high liver results might mean? She's a stage II, and it's a hormonal (estrogen) type of cancer. That's all I know!

 Silje

sheila888

Hi Silje...my liver enzymes were all messed up during Chemo.

Im also on Cholesterol medicine where they check it every 3 months.

After the chemo it went back to normal.

Do you know how high it is?

I read somewhere on these boards Tamoxifen, Femara can mess up the numbers.Why don't you ask the Doctor?

I take Femara but it has no effect on my enzymes.

Sheila

Silje

My mother said something about normal values being around 25, and hers were in the 300s! Naturally I got a bit worried, think it sounds awfully high.

New tests were taken yesterday, so we're mostly just waiting for the results... but as it is with everything at the cancer ward here, things take tiiiime.

 Thank you for your answer!

Kayne

Silje-- my liver results are high as well.  My onoclogist repeated it and they came down a slight bit.  She thinks it is from the anesthesia.  Some people's body react differently.  She is going to wait 2 weeks and repeat the test.  My numbers were normal before the operation. I had  bilateral masectomy on Feb. 12-  blood work on March 4 and 6.    One of my numbers initially was 30, the second time 121.  I had 3 numbers that were off--- one was 130 initially and 400 the second time.  Hope this helps.

SoCalLisa

I had liver problems after chemo and gallbladder trouble..they took out my gallbladder and it

was  nasty according to the surgeon...I felt so much better

cabmom

SoCalLisa, did you have pains in your ribs from this?  I'm having pains in my ribs on the affected side and also abdominal swelling still.  The onc nurses have told me that the swelling will reduce in time but is also a side effect of chemo......did you have any of these issues?

goldilocks

I don't have any answers, but sure am happy to have found you guys. I have been looking and could not find anything that was similar to this.

 I had my gallbladder out after the first time w/BC. My liver numbers are high in the mid 200's and they only say I have a "Fatty Liver".  I understand the pain under the rib and upper abdominal area. Just had a sonogram and found nothing. Still no answers. I finished chemo over a year ago, and they say side effects will remain for quite some time.  I figure that can only be the answer. I don't want to read more into it. 

My sister whom I just located (I was given up for adoption) is younger than me and has pretty much all forms of cancer at this time. It started out being BC and then just kept on moving. I do have the fear of ending up in her situation. It's been just a year since the first diagnosis and she is in a wheelchair doing Research studies. She won't say it, but isn't that when they are working on a cure for the Next generation?

 Thanks for listening. Stay strong my sisters!