scared patient

[tumeny]

I'm 45 and went in to ER and my eyes were YELLOW! my current numbers are as follows:

soduim 136, total protien 7.1, total  albumin 2.7, bili total 1.7, bili direct .900, phosphorus 3.7, (ALP) alkaline phospha 123, sgot(ast) 35, (ALT) is 33, How scared should i be? i quite drinking 100% 3 months ago.

What is the following?
anion gap 9
osmolrty calculation 281
bun/creat 12.50

please advise

[tumeny]

Thanks, should the doctor be treating me for jaundice? if so, what should i be taking??

he gave me cholestramine for oral ant idea why would he give me this?

[CalGal]

Tumeny, I'd like to add a follow-up on comment. Please do everything you can to maintain a healthy state from now on, and don't consider ever drinking again.

What you're saying about "banding your veins from throat to stomach' iseems to suggest you may be experiencing the after-effects of problems due to alcohol. It can cause a variety of problems that result in changes blood pressure that can lead to bleeding from the vasculature into the esophagus and stomach. Yes, the condition can result from problems other than alcohol, but alcohol can be a very big cause.

Work with you doc to do all you can with diet, exercise and medication if necessary to find a good state of health.

[tumeny]

That was my last testing scores thanks. I did go to your web site to see my results. Thanks! they have decided to give me 4 edg's, banding my viens from my throat to my stomach. These numbers are after  the 3rd surgery. i will not see him until 2/3/12. i received my results on my sonogram (sp) and he said there was minamul amount

[ggreg]

Tumeny,
NO, your numbers are not all good, mainly because you have jaundice.  I gave you a link to normal ranges of all sorts of blood test numbers so you could look them up yourself.  But to help you out, your billirubin is too high, which is a liver test, and this is related to you having jaundice, with the origin being, as I listed off before, depending on many factors, like the liver, gallbaldder, pancreas, evidence of Hep C and anemia.  That's why I said you have to consult with a doc, who will want to probably do an ultrasound and other tests, to determine what those numbers, combined with your particular health and history, mean.

Having jaundice can be rather alarming to a person, but your doc will decide what is causing it, and he can then go about offering you a treatment plan.
GG

[tumeny]

so would you agree that numbers are good?

[tumeny]

so would you agree that numbers are good?

[ggreg]

http://www.bloodbook.com/ranges.html

The above link gives you a long list of what normal bloodwork numbers are supposed to be.  Your physician is supposed to explain why you have jaundice, which is based on what some of those numbers mean if they're abnormal, along with his information from your history and symptoms and other tests he performs.  A couple numbers may be off, but often it depends on how they relate to other numbers, etc., as to what they actually mean.

Jaundice does not only happen from a problem with the liver, but also because of gallstones, pancreatitis, kidney disease, and various other sorts of problems, like anemia or Hep C.  The bun and creatinine number has to do with kidneys, but I do not recognize the number you have as relates to anything I'm used to seeing.  For some reason, in recent years, some people are getting all these lab or scan results before they see their doc, and they have no idea what they mean, and my docs all understand that the less I know about the something in my body, the happier I am.  So, your doc can explain the source of your jaundice, altho there ARE those here who may can take an educated guess at it.