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What does this elevated bilirubin mean????

I am a healthy 34 year old white male, no smoking ever in my life but did have some alcohol usage in younger years. In 1995, I had a work physical that came back with an elevated bilirubin(total) of 2.2.....range .2-1.2. Also in this blood test my total protein was 8.3.....range of 6.4-8.2 and my albumin was 5.2......range of 3.8-5.0. I really never thought to much about it since I am not a medical person so I just let it go and never went back for follow up. Now, I had another work physical done last week and once again, elevated bilirubin. This time it was 3.05 with the same range as above. On this test....everything else was normal this time SGOT was 17 and alk phos was 68. They did not do an AST or GGT this time but did the first time in 1995 and those were both well in the normal range. I feel fine, no problems that I am aware of . But now, I am married to a Registered nurse and she is freaking out over this.....she thinks I have a liver ailment!!!!! Could someone please help me out on this??????? I will be glad to go to the doctor for more testing if needed but I dont want to waste a bunch of money if nothing is majorly wrong. Thanks for your time........
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I am just a little concerned re my bilirubin levels and would really appreciate some advise whether this should be of concern and what I can do to improve the situation.  The results came from a full blood test which included liver function.  I had these tests due to feeling generally unwell & occasionally feeling completely wiped out (usually on waking)
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I am just a little concerned re my bilirubin levels and would really appreciate some advise whether this should be of concern and what I can do to improve the situation.  The results came from a full blood test which included liver function.  I had these tests due to feeling generally unwell & occasionally feeling completely wiped out (usually on waking)
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Sorry for my english!
I'm italian, 26 years old, student, i like swimming.
Never had problems with bilirubin but this year I tried to enter the italian army but they say that I'm not Ok for the high level of total bilirubin (3.65). I'll do every test to know the causes of this but now is necessary to get down this value to 1.5 or less. How can I do in few days?
Thank you!
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I am a 26 year old male who has always been very active and have noticed in the past 2 years that my energy levels are down and have to have a sleep during the day.  My eyes at times look very tired, blood shot and yellow.  This seems to been getting worse.  I have just had some blood test which show a high level of bilirubin.  The Doctor says I have Gilberts sydnome.  He has not given me much information on it.  I would like to ask people what I can do to help this sydrome, and things to eat, do or take to get my energy levels up again and for my eyes not to look so tired.  thanks
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what do extreme levels of amylase1140,lipase2260,ldh251,alkphos381 in a child mean?she is an 8 year old a vacterl syndrome child.I understand lipase levels are elevated in pancreatitis,but not as much as amylase.
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what do extreme levels of amylase1140,lipase2260,ldh251,alkphos381 in a child mean?she is an 8 year old a vacterl syndrome child.I understand lipase levels are elevated in pancreatitis,but not as much as amylase.
chris
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