Liver enzymes, mildly raised, and what my GP said

Started 22 November 2025 · 16 replies · 123 hearts · read 2.2k times

JontyOxford, UK · 22 November 2025

8 months ago

A question rather than an update: Liver enzymes, mildly raised, and what my GP said

I have read the paper and I am not sure I have understood it.

Here is where I am. The medication side has been more or less as described, and the part nobody prepared me for is everything around it: what to say to people, how to plan a week, and how to tell the difference between a thing to endure and a thing to raise.

My prescriber has been fine, genuinely. The problem is that I get nine minutes twice a year and there is no version of nine minutes that covers this.

Thanks all. Genuinely.

KaiVancouver, CA

I did exactly the same and felt terrible about it. You have not done anything wrong.

TinukeManchester, UK

Practical, boring answer: write the three questions down before you go in. I have never once remembered them otherwise.

MiraFacilitatorRotterdam, Netherlands

I want to slow this down a little. There are four different answers flying about and they are all somebody's real experience, which makes them true and not necessarily relevant to the person who asked.

KeeleyBlackpool, UK

I am the person who had the frightening version of this. I went in, it was investigated, and it was not what anyone feared. Going in is the whole of my advice.

BibiRabat, MA

My experience was very boring, which I offer as data. Some of us just get a dull time of it.

EspeSeville, ES

What helped was lowering my own expectations of the week rather than trying to hold the week together.

AmmiKarachi, PK

Please do not read the comments under news articles about this. I lost a fortnight to that.

5me too 1

NedChesterfield, UK

Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.

I asked my nurse the same question and she said something I have repeated ever since: that the aim is to keep you on treatment, not to get you up the schedule.

AshwinBengaluru, IN

Similar here, and mine turned out to be a completely unrelated deficiency picked up on bloods.

TarnKeswick, UK

#10

I have been in this circle a year and this question comes round every few months. It is not a silly question. It is the question.

GwynethAberdare, UK

#11

Yes. All of this. I had the same in my third month and I remember thinking there was something specifically wrong with me, which there was not.

HuwWrexham, UK

#12

Coming back to this a fortnight later to say it settled. Leaving the update because I hate reading threads that stop.

IzoldaVilnius, LT

#13

What the reply above described happened to me too, in a slightly different order.

Mine lasted about seven weeks and then lifted over a few days. I cannot tell you why. I can tell you it lifted.

NanNeath, UK

#14

Two things that helped me, neither of them clever: small amounts more often, and drinking a lot more than felt necessary.

7me too 4

MiraFacilitatorRotterdam, Netherlands

#15

Building on what the reply above wrote rather than answering the original question.

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NellFrome, UK

#16

I would take that to a clinician rather than to us, and I would do it this week. Not because it is definitely serious — because it is the sort of thing that is much easier to rule out than to worry about.