I was just in the hospital for a week, and when they were doing an abdominal CT-scan they also covered a scan of my liver. I’ve never had direct liver problems so I have never had a full-on scan of the liver BUT they can still see it in other scans.
In so doing I was diagnosed with a fatty liver about a year and a half ago….and now i have been told that it is much worse.
So I was curious to see if anyone else had such a thing and what, if anything, they’ve done about it.
For those that do not know about Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease:
In the United States, it is the most common form of chronic liver disease, affecting an estimated 80 to 100 million people.
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease occurs in every age group but especially in people in their 40s and 50s who are at high risk of heart disease because of such risk factors as obesity and type 2 diabetes
Being an overweight diabetic (type II) in my 40s/50s I am enough at risk.
Nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, a potentially serious form of the disease, is marked by liver inflammation, which may progress to scarring and irreversible damage.
The main complication of nonalcoholic fatty liver disease and nonalcoholic steatohepatitis is cirrhosis, which is late-stage scarring (fibrosis) in the liver. Cirrhosis occurs in response to liver injury, such as the inflammation in nonalcoholic steatohepatitis. As the liver tries to halt inflammation, it produces areas of scarring (fibrosis). With continued inflammation, fibrosis spreads to take up more and more liver tissue.
So I am curious….have you been told that you suffer from it, and what have you done to stop the progress?