issues with liver?

i have that pain and so does my brother. ive had so many tests most have come back negative apart from slightly elevated liver function and mild gastritis. theres also part of your bowel under right rib where theres a tight bend so any inflammation there can cause a back up of gas etc and create a lot of pain. also inflammation in the bottom of stomach can cause pain on the right apparently.

im no doctor and these are just theories but after living with the pain for nearly two years thats what ive come up with!

EBV does mess up the balance of your body but your liver is very good at regenerating so keep eating healthily and drinking loads of water, it will get better with time

Hi Nicole,

It definitely can be a common thing for liver function tests to be affected when you are going through and recovering from mono / EBV. I had the same thing, blood results which showed my liver function test was slightly off. Please don't panic this is usually just as a result of the mono virus and it does in the vast majority of people settle down and go back to normal as your body recovers with time.

I just hope you can see some real improvements and breakthrough soon Nicole, you've been through so much and still thinking about you and empathising remembering the horrible time I went through with this also many years ago. Just remember you are young and your body has amazing powers of recovery, sometimes it can hit young adults very hard and take extended time to fully recover from, this can be normal Nicole but things do get better, have read a lot of stories of folks who maybe didn't see that real change until about the 18 month mark or so and then made full recovery. It's a horrible virus, you're doing the right things checking in the with the doctor regularly and getting blood tests done.

Hang in there Nicole, thinking about you and still believing that you are going to get back to full health again with a little more time. Keep checking in with the docs and ask them to monitor things for you and hoping they can put your mind at ease.

Craig

Hi Nicole

Im currently on month 17 and also had still raised liver enzymes on my last blood test back in Nov. Although one had come down into the normal range the other one was still high. From whats been explained to me about it is that our livers are busy cleaning up the mess left over from the EBV virus party. It takes time for our bodies to get on top of the damage, and all we can do is support our bodies during this time.

Eating a healthy diet that is full of things that are good for liver health (one thing that google is good for) and staying hydrated helps.

Stay strong, we will all get through this eventually....time is a great healer so Ive been told 😃

ebv can rarely cause problems with the liver and it did with me and put my in hospital for 6 weeks including intensive care. I'll copy and paste a article I posted on my own discussion about what happened to me. it is a long read so if you don't want to read it you obviously dont have to. at the end of the huge paragraph I'll write a little bit about your liver test concern.

so this happened a year an a half ago to me

So, a week after my 17th birthday, I woke up and had quite severe stomach pain, a long with that my face looked slightly yellow, I was throwing up and had no appetite as well as diarrhoea. At first I thought I may have appendicitis so we decided to dial the none emergency NHS line, and after telling them my symptoms, I got given an appointment at the walk in centre. Upon arrival , they did my blood pressure and heart rate and they were both through the roof. My heart rate was around 130 and I can't remember what my blood pressure was. After an ECG that came back fine and blood tests, they came to the conclusion I had an infection around my liver so was put on an iv drip and antibiotics. The 1st week in hospital involved ultrasound scans and more bloodtest and they found out my gaull bladder, spleen and liver were inflamed and my liver function was slightly lower than it should have been. And after a week of none stop antibiotics they noticed only a minor improvement In my blood tests. So after the 1st week I was (wrongly) sent home with an appointment in 3 days time for blood tests at the hospital. While at home, I deteriorated and continued without eating and had really bad diarrhoea as well as throwing up. 3 days later I went back to the hospital for blood test, but while there I threw up everywhere in front of a passing doctor and we explained everything to him, and he advised we to go back to a&e. After again, more bloodtests they found the liver function was worsening as well as my infection markers dropping and low blood platlets. They ordered a CT scan, as well as a camera..... both ends. Everything came back clear other than again.... the inflamed organs. After 3 weeks in hospital, the doctors still had no idea what was going on, and i seriously deteriorated so they put me in intensive care, and then later that night, blue lighted me to a specialist liver unit in Leeds. While at Leeds, my kidney function started to drop, which intern caused fluid build up all over my body which made moving almost impossible as I put on around 3 stone overnight. They also inserted a cafiter which is extremely unpleasant. At Leeds, they decided to do a lymph node biopsy, liver biopsy and bone marrow biopsy and everything came back fine which left them again.... baffled. After not eating for 4 weeks they decided to feed me through a tube. while inserting it, I threw up in the doctors eye and the tube came out and I refused to have it re fitted. at this point they were considering dyalasis and liver transplant. They eventually decided to give me an extreemly high dose of steroids which eventually made my liver and kidney function go back up and I was discharged from intensive care and put onto a normal ward for a week until finally being fully discharged. After being discharged I was kept on a dose of steroids that I had to cut down every week until I was completely off them and I also had regular check ups until around 4 months ago where I was also discharged from outpatients.

That came to the uncertain conclusion that all this was caused by an extreemly rare case of glandular fever. Although my outpatient consultant doesn't believe that was it was. Thankfully tho, there was no lasting damage other than huge stretch marks everywhere that have left me extreemly self conscious.

(REGARDING YOUR POSSIBLE LIVER ISSUE)

so here is the good news, I somehow, very luckily recovered with no lasting damage to any of my organs. although I do sometimes get pain from the general area they're in for some reason.

so if my organs were failing to the point they were considering transplants, I wouldn't worry about it. ebv can often mess with your liver function slightly and mine took over a year to get back to normal. so the chances are there is nothing to worry about. and ebv often causes liver problems but very rarely serious ones.

hi,

sorry about your pain

im on month 7 with Epv

i have had & am having •many•issues whole body wise_

but these last few days i too have been having pain under right rib cage area-

i figured it was my kidney with all that is going on~

my bloodwork was fine, just checked one week ago-

i had nausea in beginning

now its back ten fold bad-

and + the stomach pain/

pain under right ribs ?

strange

i guess its all a part of this.....

try not to worry, just get your bloodwork checked again......

this virus affects your whole system......my whole body is so beat up im not surprised im having "liver" pain if that whatbit is^*^?

are you having other symptoms at this point as well?-.......

hope you feel better soon...-:-)