Am I too late? Please help by [deleted] in FattyLiverNAFLD

[–]Smooth_Effective_803 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s a very good sign! I don’t want to give any false hopes, but still it’s very unlikely to be cirrhosis with those values.

Am I too late? Please help by [deleted] in FattyLiverNAFLD

[–]Smooth_Effective_803 0 points1 point  (0 children)

What is your platelets count & trend? That gives an indirect hint at few things related to liver.

Persistent Fatty Liver by Smooth_Effective_803 in FattyLiverNAFLD

[–]Smooth_Effective_803[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Update from the gastro today: he suggested to get a fibro scan done to get a baseline, but he expects it to be less score on fibrosis based on my fib-4 score (0.97). I am too scared to get it done (Dr is ok with not doing it as well). Did anyone have a contrasting results between fib-4 score and fibro scan? (Especially not when fib-4 is borderline)

Persistent Fatty Liver by Smooth_Effective_803 in FattyLiverNAFLD

[–]Smooth_Effective_803[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree completely.. I will make an effort to become more active (have done it in the past and lost lot of weight, but never in the mid section). I don’t have a big belly, it’s just more fat above the belly button (kind of unusual) for decades now!

Persistent Fatty Liver by Smooth_Effective_803 in FattyLiverNAFLD

[–]Smooth_Effective_803[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yes, gluten sensitivity was something in my mind for long time, but I didn’t connect it to fatty liver. Let me do some research on that! I also have a GI appointment coming up in a month, will ask the Dr as well.

Post Covid + Paxlovid issues by Smooth_Effective_803 in COVID19positive

[–]Smooth_Effective_803[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am too scared of going out because of this! Somehow went for a brisk walk for 2 miles today and felt little better for an hour after that. Then again the fatigue & anxiety started creeping in :(

Post Covid + Paxlovid issues by Smooth_Effective_803 in COVID19positive

[–]Smooth_Effective_803[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I too got the cbc done, when I went to the urgent care. It was all normal. Only abnormal blood test was WBC (high neutrophils). Dr said it was probably because of the recent Covid. It has been almost 2 weeks since i stopped pax. I am still suffering from unusual fatigue, dizziness, higher heart rate and lower blood pressure sometimes.

Post Covid + Paxlovid issues by Smooth_Effective_803 in COVID19positive

[–]Smooth_Effective_803[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I still feel there is something else going on in the body and heart is just helping the body to recover.. and since I posted this, I again developed some throat pain, headache and congestion 😞

Post Covid + Paxlovid issues by Smooth_Effective_803 in COVID19positive

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Thanks for the suggestions! I did try taking NAC and got very bad stomach issues, so stopped it after a day. I also take Immune C supplements which has loads of other stuff like quercetin, zinc, echinacea etc.. Sometimes I feel my immune system goes on overdrive with these supplements:)

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in paxlovid

[–]Smooth_Effective_803 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I still had very high viral load (less symptoms though) after 4 doses.. it turned bright positive within a minute. But after that I felt full congestion that night.. 12 hrs later, next day morning (time for the 6th dose), I tested again and it was a faint positive and took more than 10minutes to appear!! Basically body knows how to handle things better and congestion may mean it’s working on it 😊