Liver (or potentially also gallbladder) issues, or something affecting it

Hi there 😃 I have no idea if this is the right place, but hopefully this is a good start...

Around 4 months ago I got unwell, it started out with sores on my tongue and then escalated into several things including inflammation of my throat, tongue feeling sensitive, loss of appetite, pain around my liver area, nausea, digestive issues, diahoria etc My energy levels were extremely low, I lost quite a bit of weight(~5kg) and was feeling really ill. I started doing better a few weeks later, and have slowly settled into these last couple of months where my symptoms have been consistent and I'm not getting worse or better at the moment.

I've seen my doctor over this period of time, and they're happy to just monitor me and see what happens as they don't really know what to do next other than wait.

Basic summary of symptoms:

1. Never get hungry, but I can eat, and enjoy eating etc
2. Uncomfortable pain/almost inflammation like feeling around my liver area that comes and goes(when its there its never more than a 3/10 pain)
3. Liver tests show my bilirubin has been fluctuating over the last few months

I have no idea if its related, but 3-4 months ago when I first started feeling unwell I got really sick - I had sores on my tongue, my throat got inflamed and it felt like I couldn't swallow, energy levels dropped, nauseous, had diahoria and other digestive issues and felt unwell in general. Since then I've had some level of sensitivity on my tongue from time to time, and my jaw feels tighter at times as well. My eyes are also still yellow-ish, but this was much more so 3 months ago.

Tests I've done:

1. Lost of blood work, CBC, CRP, Haemoglobin, Renal, CMV, Hepatitis(A-C), HIV, Iron, Calcium, B12, Magnesium, Selenium, Troponin T, Thyroid etc all came back normal
2. Throat swab, faecal test all normal
3. 30 Jul - Ultrasound of abdominal area that showed nothing
4. 27 Aug - Xray of chest that was normal
5. 6 Sep - CT scan of abdominal and pelvis that showed: 7mm hypodense lesion in segment 7 of the liver is of close to water density and is likely to represent cyst. 18mm cyst towards lower pole of the right kidney. Everything else was normal.
6. Also did a gastroscopy and colonoscopy, all normal.

I've also seen a nutritionist, done dietary changes, did a liver cleanse, a hair test and cut out many foods for several weeks.

As I said my doctor is not worried about any of the results, and they're happy to just wait it out and see if I get better/worse and take it form there. I'd really like to get more opinions, possibly someone else out there has had similar issues.

Thank you.

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