:help: Has anyone had a fatty liver? Before and/or after surgery? My doctor called me this morning to give me the results on my liver panel which came up irregular. He said I have a fatty liver and I need to go to the specialist. He told me this is because of drinking (I dont really) or being over weight which I am 5'2 220lbs. Has anyone had this problem? Can this be a tool to help me get my insurance to pay for my surgery? (Healthnet) Can this go away if I loss weight? Thanks for reading this!

KITTY:help:

I had a fatty liver but didn't know it until surgery. I was put on Optifast for 2 weeks which was supposed to prevent the fatty liver. When I had the surgery, the surgeon asked my husband if I'd really followed the Optifast. Evidently obesity can cause the same sorts of liver problems that heavy drinking can cause. My liver was not only large and fatty, there were hard spots on it too. If I understood him right it can correct itself after losing weight.

Thank you so much for sharing that!

Kitty

I had a fatty liver but didn't know it until surgery. I was put on Optifast for 2 weeks which was supposed to prevent the fatty liver. When I had the surgery, the surgeon asked my husband if I'd really followed the Optifast. Evidently obesity can cause the same sorts of liver problems that heavy drinking can cause. My liver was not only large and fatty, there were hard spots on it too. If I understood him right it can correct itself after losing weight.

Same thing for me. Since lossing some of my weight my liver levels are back to a "normal" range. I started at 327lbs on a 5ft 2in frame. I am around the 250 mark now and trying to lose more. Best of luck to you.

Yup, I too had a fatty liver and my liver enzymes were above normal. This horrified me before surgery and really helped me to stick to my self inflicted pre-op diet. I was so afraid when they went in for surgery that I would have a giant liver that would get in their way. The liver is an amazing organ that is good at cleansing itself if we stop eating the crap that made it fatty in the first place. I am not sure what my levels are now but my first words upon awakening from surgery were "how was my liver?" and the surgeon said it was beautiful. He also told me about one patient whose liver was so bad they had to do biopsy and it had cirrhosis-despite the fact that she doesn't drink. I was floored to know you could get cirrhosis from a poor diet. There is an incentive to eat better!

Thanks for sharing that with me!

Kitty

My friend has N.A.S.H. it has somthing to do with sorisis (sp) of the liver, from either drinking or being overweight. In her cause it was overweight, and had got to the point to where it couldn't be corrected, but by losing weight it wouldn't get worse. She had gastric bypass last year and is doing great.

thanks for sharing that with me

Kitty

I had a fatty liver, I didn't find out about it until after my surgery, My Dr. had to use a bigger band because of my liver being so large and my surgery took 3 hrs. instead of the normal 1 to 1.5 hrs. My Dr. said that losing weight would help it and he didn't seem to worried. My family Dr. told me to put lemon in my water because it is a natural detox for your liver, so I've been trying this, don't know if it's helping or not because I haven't had any test done since my surgery.

My Husband has a fatty liver or fatty liver syndrome. He was accused of being an alcoholic because his enzymes were off the chart. After changing Dr.s his liver panel came back off the chart still. The new Dr. knows my DH personally and knows that he never drinks. He then put my DH on a no sugar, no carb diet at first and began to treat him for a candida overload. Aparently, candida takes the sugars in you digestive track and may manufacture as much as a quart of alcohol a day, causing sleepiness, headaches, and a craving for more sugar and refined carbs, as this is the food they need. It is a large and strong bacteria in our gut and is usually kept in check by proper levels of acdidophilus and bifidus ands bulgaricus and other heathy bacteria. If we have a long haul of antibiotic, these friendly bacteria are the first to go and the candida usually survives, and takes over so to speak in the gut. BTW, good bacteria in our gut takes things like complex protiens,(beef) breaks it down and produces b complex and enzymes that cause candida to be surpressed. Another thing that happens with good bacteria is that the enzymes they produce makes an unfriendly environment to virus, thats why they are sometime referred to as a probiotic.

Ok back to the liver. The candida was producing alcohol inside his body, the liver was getting damaged, producing the fatty liver syndrome.

He had his gut cleansed, and liver detoxed, and his gut rebuilt with healthy bacteria, It took about 6 mo. In the process, he lost weight, lost major sunus problems and allergies bothered him so much less that he stopped the decongestants and antihistamines. His sinus infections dissapeared, which can be aggrivated by the candida. He did not need to keep going back to powerful antibiotics for sinus infections.

His liver panel is normal now and he no longer has fatty livey syndrome.

When we get the lapband, our diet changes to higer protien, low sugar and low carbs. This alone can cause the candida levels to be surpressed. Thats how so many of us seem to loose the fatty liver problem, on top of the fact that many of us have increased energy. No more overrunning candida giving us alcohol, and causing us to crave more sugar,etc. No more sleepiness after our meals and all of those benifits come after we get the band and get help controlling what we eat. I see it as a win, win.