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Has anyone managed to reverse an alcoholic fatty liver?
If so how long did it take? And did you also have to eat a special diet and take any medication or just give up alcohol?
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Robin2015 kelly71703
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sharon7979 kelly71703
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RHGB kelly71703
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There is no set timescale, as it depends on each individual and their circunstances.
That said, 6 to 8 weeks of abstention from alcohol is quite often given as a timescale. No medication is given for this. Eating a good diet will aid the liver, by that I mean cooked home made food, no processed food. That means no takeaways, no ready meals in a box, that you stick in the oven or microwave.
kelly71703
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Thanks for your replies.
Just wanted an idea.
I'm not seeing the hepatologist again untill July after an MRI but was told by her earlier this month I've got fatty liver. My Gp still hasn't had the ultrasound or blood reports from the hospital though ive been told ive had raised cholesterol for a while and they were talking about statins. I wondered Wether that was also alcohol related.
RHGB kelly71703
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Personally I would do anything to avoid statins, never seen a good thing said about them by people who take them. My GP surgery wanted to put me on them, but I just changed my diet and got mine lower.
gwen45436 kelly71703
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vickylou gwen45436
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yes Gwen is quite right, alcohol does raise cholesterol levels. So if you drink more than the recommended weekly units of alcohol you're very much at risk of high cholesterol levels. Add to that a poor diet and lifestyle, and you're going to give yourself problems. Obesity, increased risk of heart disease,greater risk of developing cancer oh and smoking!
Cheerful lot aren't we haha!
kelly71703
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Been reading up and apparently only 20% of cholesterol is dietary, the rest is synthesised by the liver.
To be honest when I'm drinking I don't eat and after years of an eating disorder I'm still very particular about what I eat (no fried food,sugar, white flour ect) so I believe it is probably hereditary. I still believe drinking is somehow implicated though as it's all liver related.
I won't be taking statins.
Take care all.
vickylou kelly71703
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Glad to hear you won't be taking statins.
My husband was told he needed to take them as his cholesterol level was high.
He came back from seeing his consultant and told me about the statins. No way was he going to take them. I told him he could reduce the level by eating healthily.
It doesn't take a genius to produce good, healthy,low fat food. I cooked everything from scratch. Still had curries, pasta, soups, full English breakfast ( once a fortnight!). Six months later his cholesterol was 3.0!! I lost two stone, shopping bills were greatly reduced and not a statins in sight. He also drank on average 6 pints of beer a week.
Robin2015 vickylou
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vickylou kelly71703
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vickylou Robin2015
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Hi Robin
Id read and heard all the horror stories about statins, and like RHGB said, I'd never heard of anything positive about them.
By using my best friend, Mr Google, found out how eating proper food can not only reduce cholesterol, but has loads of other benefits. What did surprise me, was the reduction of my weekly shopping bill.
Robin2015 vickylou
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vickylou Robin2015
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Not heard of that. Only time I've had walnuts is in a 'walnut whip' don't know if they still make them. Am showing my age now!
gwen45436 vickylou
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RHGB vickylou
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Walnut Whips, never the same after they removed the second walnut, in the early to mid '70s.
vickylou gwen45436
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I only like jumbo salted peanuts!! Oh and peanut butter eaten with a tea spoon out of the jar!!! Very ladylike and healthy.
Now I'm going on a hunt for a walnut whip, thanks Gwen, I thought like Caramac bars, they were now obsolete
gwen45436 vickylou
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vickylou RHGB
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What!!!!!!!! Don't think I'll bother now as it won't be the same!
Now I'm not drinking, I'm getting cravings for chocolate. Took the grandsons to the shop yesterday. Got what they wanted, but couldn't find what I wanted.
the eldest, desperate to get to the park, asked what I wanted. A marathon bar. Shop full of people who heard our conversation took great delight in pointing out 'snikers' well how was I supposed to know they'd changed the name from the olden days!!