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Is it normal to have your live inflamed after starting meds
I started about 3 weeks ago and my liver was some what normal in size.I been having some problem with abdomenal pain thats been getting worst any way I went to the ER and they said that it was inflamed and that my liver enzymes went up.I was told that they would go down and that the med wouldn't harm my liver. I can feel a lump on my right side so I think it pretty bad I hope that I'm over reacting.So what I want to know is this a bad reaction to the med or is it normal or is it something completly different.Like I have this bad smell in my nose that been getting stronger and worst and scaring me because they don't know what it is. I got back my ct scan disc and the report that my doctor never went over it because he said that its normal but it said that I have a swollen prominent lymph node in the gastrohepatic ligament measuring 8 to 9 mm in A P diameter and then it said that its doudtful significance.I alway thought that lt could be canser and that they also check it to be safe because cancer in the lymph node cancer is dangerous if not treated early on.I went back to my Doc because it got worst and he said that he thinks it a intestinal spasms and that the smell in my nose is gas(heart burn) I took the med because I willing to do what ever and all it did was make everything worst and I felt like I was going to over dose .I coulding even stand up because I was so dizzy .I feel like he has no idea what he doing .
chorkle...we must both love to say sphincter...I know I do....
the lower one of course is more of a sulfuric ambrosia that we all know and love.... while the upper one leaking is far less satisfactory. ; 0 : )
as far as this goes Shane, you could easily have a little Gerd going on also.
folks can have this for years (especially with liver disease) and not know it.
Then the chemo kinda aggravates it.
Bill's right, you'll need the doc to sort it out, but don't worry unnessesssarily as it may be something very simple.
I ended up just using an antinausea med and once I learned I HAD to eat with the riba, I was fine. Only ended up using the nausea meds maybe 10 times in 2 yrs.
So it may be you just need to get a helper med to have on hand.
mb
the lower one of course is more of a sulfuric ambrosia that we all know and love.... while the upper one leaking is far less satisfactory. ; 0 : )
as far as this goes Shane, you could easily have a little Gerd going on also.
folks can have this for years (especially with liver disease) and not know it.
Then the chemo kinda aggravates it.
Bill's right, you'll need the doc to sort it out, but don't worry unnessesssarily as it may be something very simple.
I ended up just using an antinausea med and once I learned I HAD to eat with the riba, I was fine. Only ended up using the nausea meds maybe 10 times in 2 yrs.
So it may be you just need to get a helper med to have on hand.
mb
I think Merry has a pretty good diagnosis going too - I know that when I get a leaky sphincter it can definitely create some odd and off-putting smells. Though I haven't knowingly made anyone vomit. Yet. That might be a bit of a stretch (and not of the leaky sphinter variety).
I've been told the meds can cause some temporary liver inflamation, but in the context of eradicating the virus this is an OK thing, unless say you have advanced cirrosis and you would know if you did.
Dr Bill - You're spot on again. Even before TX , I developed that "taste for perversion" you mentioned, and it hasn't gone away. In fact, I think it might be getting worse.
Dr Bill - You're spot on again. Even before TX , I developed that "taste for perversion" you mentioned, and it hasn't gone away. In fact, I think it might be getting worse.
Hi Shane,
You’ll most likely be fine. Do mention all this to your treating doctor; they should be made aware of any problems you might be having. These meds can cause a phenomenon called ‘taste perversion’; patients often complain of a metallic taste, but I think it could extend to smell as well. Taste and smell are tied closely together.
If you’re now three weeks into treatment, you might be developing a bit of anemia; this can cause us to experience dizziness as well as nausea, and a feeling of breathlessness. You should be scheduled for blood work soon?
Be sure to call your doc Monday and let them know what’s going on with you; in the mean time, you can always go to ER if things get out of hand.
Best of luck to you,
Bill
You’ll most likely be fine. Do mention all this to your treating doctor; they should be made aware of any problems you might be having. These meds can cause a phenomenon called ‘taste perversion’; patients often complain of a metallic taste, but I think it could extend to smell as well. Taste and smell are tied closely together.
If you’re now three weeks into treatment, you might be developing a bit of anemia; this can cause us to experience dizziness as well as nausea, and a feeling of breathlessness. You should be scheduled for blood work soon?
Be sure to call your doc Monday and let them know what’s going on with you; in the mean time, you can always go to ER if things get out of hand.
Best of luck to you,
Bill
People on treatment often complain about odds smells, metalic taste, some end up with everything they eat tasting off. A lot of this I think is connected to the way the lymph system works...our adenoids and sinuses and taste buds get funny any time our lymphatic system undergoes a change.
On chemo drugs you will undergo changes in the lymph glands. It isn't uncommon for nodes around the liver, or in the throat, armpits groin or elsewhere to be tender, especially at commencement of tx.
This is because the INF is basically the same thing your body makes during an infection, to fight an infection off (only many times more than you would normally make) and if you understand lymph function this will become clear. The lymph glands are the recpticles where the fighter cells, and INF congregate. During an infection, or while fighting an infection to be clear, many more fighter cells are made, lymph nodes swell, like an army, going up the hill to fight the battle.
Your Spleen also makes and stores fighter cells so it can get inflammed also.
Unless this continues to get worse I wouldn't get too overly concerned.
If more than one node is involved, then you may have a systemic infection of some sort that needs addressing, but some tenderness here and there can be expected.
Over time sometimes a node will get scarred and hard from repeated or severe infection, that also is very rarely cancer although it takes a biopsy to know for sure.
Abdominal quivers is something I had through treatment. The ribavirin brought them on as it did a number on my nervous signalling somehow. I also had a gall bladder going bad prior to and during treatment, while can also cause spasms. SO yes, is could be your intestines, but it could also be a GB, pancreas, or drug reaction among other things. You may want to read up on these a little just to be sure they don't fit.
If you are indeed smelling vomit, then either your liver is having a hard time, or your GB is on the frist, or you have a leaky sphinter or 2. Are you taking your Riba on an empty stomach> You should be taking it with food. Better for tummy and better absorption also.
mb
On chemo drugs you will undergo changes in the lymph glands. It isn't uncommon for nodes around the liver, or in the throat, armpits groin or elsewhere to be tender, especially at commencement of tx.
This is because the INF is basically the same thing your body makes during an infection, to fight an infection off (only many times more than you would normally make) and if you understand lymph function this will become clear. The lymph glands are the recpticles where the fighter cells, and INF congregate. During an infection, or while fighting an infection to be clear, many more fighter cells are made, lymph nodes swell, like an army, going up the hill to fight the battle.
Your Spleen also makes and stores fighter cells so it can get inflammed also.
Unless this continues to get worse I wouldn't get too overly concerned.
If more than one node is involved, then you may have a systemic infection of some sort that needs addressing, but some tenderness here and there can be expected.
Over time sometimes a node will get scarred and hard from repeated or severe infection, that also is very rarely cancer although it takes a biopsy to know for sure.
Abdominal quivers is something I had through treatment. The ribavirin brought them on as it did a number on my nervous signalling somehow. I also had a gall bladder going bad prior to and during treatment, while can also cause spasms. SO yes, is could be your intestines, but it could also be a GB, pancreas, or drug reaction among other things. You may want to read up on these a little just to be sure they don't fit.
If you are indeed smelling vomit, then either your liver is having a hard time, or your GB is on the frist, or you have a leaky sphinter or 2. Are you taking your Riba on an empty stomach> You should be taking it with food. Better for tummy and better absorption also.
mb
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