Liver Functioning
Need some feedback / guidance on elevated liver enzymes.
Background: Ran a 10 week var only cycle at 50mg/day. I have run var before without negative sides, but this time I caught a cold towards the end of the cycle. I held out for a few days but finally gave in and took some Ibuprofen and pseudoephedrine. I took 12 hour pseudoephedrine 1 pill / day and on day 4 started having low back pain on the left side. I immediately stopped taking all meds and var.
It has been 4 weeks and I just had some blood work done which did not come back as I would have liked.
ALT: 93
AST: 56
Question: How much do you think the levels are the result of staking the NSAID and Pseudoephrine on the Var?
My Doc wants me to retest in 6 weeks. Is that enough time to heal?
Any and all advice appreciated.
No, I am not adverse to pinning and have done so, the var is great for elevating my aerobic capacity.
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It's not the ibuprofen or the sudafed. I feel it's unlikely from the var as well. Var is not that stressful on the liver and although you ran it for a pretty extended period I think 4 weeks is plenty of time for the levels to come back to baseline after you ceased use. Any other risk factors? Did your doctor order any additional blood testing including hepatitis panel. Were you taking any liver support supps with the Var. If not you might want to start. Lastly, 6 weeks is plenty of time for the levels to come back down.
Oldhead, thanks for the post. No other risk factors that I am aware of. Being I have run var before with no issues I was hoping it was a combination of the three. I had been having some shoulder pain in the weeks before the var and was dosing IB rather frequently, so maybe I had been stressing the liver prior.
The doctor did not run any additional test, just requested a retest in 6 weeks. I am going to load up on sulfer veggies for the next few weeks as well.
N-acetyl cysteine is sold over-the-counter. 1800 mg a day dosed 3 times a day will help with your liver enzymes.
Let us know how it turns out, best of luck.
ClassyChassisLow back pain on the left sounds like kidney possibly. Your liver is on the right, under the ribcage, more in the front. I doubt the P-E had much to do with it , but the other might have.
I have done a liver-gallbladder flush many times and highly recommend it. Also bitter herbs like dandelion or Swedish Bitters, even Angostura bitters are good.
You can research this, but here's the general protocol for the flush. You will feel so much better if you do this. I do it at least once a year. I can't think of anything that I would recommend more to a person. It removes calcified bile, stones and pebbles, gravel from the gall bladder and helps the flow from the liver.
Day 1:
Take 2 cups of 8 oz organic apple juice or apple cider every 2 hours from 8 am to 8 pm. Altogether 14 cups will have been taken during this period. Do not take any other food or drinks except plain water.
Please note that the apple juice should not be taken cold from the refrigerator. It should be kept at room temperature or mixed with about 10% hot water before use because cold drinks chill the liver. For people with lots of stagnant bile, the collapsed stagnant bile may rush out after drinking apple juice. It may feel like having diarrhea but is actually stagnant bile (brownish yellow colour).
Day 2:
Repeat Day 1
At 8:30 pm, take ½-cup (4 oz) of olive oil (extra virgin cold pressed) mixed with ½-cup of lemon juice (squeezed from 3 lemons) or with ¾-cup of freshly-squeezed grapefruit juice.
Go immediately to bed and sleep on your right side. If there is a large amount of stones, nausea may be felt after drinking olive oil but this feeling will largely disappear on the third day after taking some food.
Day 3:
Upon rising in the morning, take 1 litre (approximately 4 cups) of warm distilled or filtered water containing two level teaspoons of un-iodized sea salt. Alternatively the addition of juice from half a lemon may be used in place of the sea salt. Wait for at least half an hour before eating.
Take vegetable broth and softly cooked vegetables only. The stones should be passed in the stool any time between midnight of Day 2 and morning of Day 4. You want to make Day 3 a day when you can stay close to a toilet.
Note: The purpose of drinking apple juice is mainly for the malic acid in apple juice. Malic acid is a good solvent for stagnant bile in the liver. Apple juice taken during fasting would dissolve and push out stagnant bile in the liver. For someone with a yeast infection or diabetes, apple juice can be replaced by malic acid in capsule or powder form. The fasting procedure is the same except that apple juice is replaced by 1000 - 2000 mg of malic acid taken with 2 cups of warm water.
Classy, great post and info. Will head to the store for all necessary ingredients tonight. If I could give you a +1 I would, but clearly someone else has already seen the benefit of your post.