Ugh - liver hypodensity

Anonymous

After getting good brain MRI results this week, I had a CT that showed areas of hypodensity. I found out from my patient portal. The worrying thing is they haven't been noted on previous scans, although I've had a different radiologist read each scan.

I had liver enzymes the high end of normal two months ago. One month ago they were lower. Wouldn't mets make them increase instead of going down?

I'm trying not to panic because I had some funky (and new) lung stuff on CTs months prior that eventually resolved itself. The language is not real alarming, although they do recommend follow up. No one has contracted me yet, even though the scan was two days ago.

On top of that, my mom (Stage l and 2.5 years out) has been having rising enzymes although only slightly outside normal range.

I'm going to contact my onc but can anyone give me some stories of hope???

Anonymous

I emailed my onc telling him to call me and he did me at the very end of the day yesterday. I had finally decided that no one was getting back to me and left my phone and missed his call! He left a VM saying we could go over it on Monday and it was not "super urgent." Any stories of liver hypodensities showing up that turned out not to be mets???

stephincanada

hi there. Before I started chemo, I had three hypodensities show up on a CT scan. (Scans were ordered because I had lymphovascular invasion.) An ultrasound (sonogram) was ordered as a follow up to the CT scan. The radiologist who looked at the ultrasound results said that two of the lesions were 99% benign. The third was too small to see on ultrasound. (It is now five months later and I am going to request a repeat ultrasound.) As I understand it, benign liver lesions are quite common. Going through this testing was extraordinarily stressful for me. I hope you are faring as well as you can under these difficult circumstances. Wishing you well..

Anonymous

Thanks Steph! I gather what is worrisome is that it's a new finding. I had a CT four months ago that mentioned nothing. But then again, months ago I had lung crap that showed up suddenly (also new finding) and eventually went away...