Cindy
Trying to find my way through being recently diagnosed with NASH and sorting through all of the information including name changes.
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I just received the results of my fibroscan yesterday afternoon. My liver has scarring, but no cirrhosis yet. Apparently I qualify for medication, now to wait until my insurance decides if it’s covered.
Good news is I’m down 31 lbs. so I’ll stick to my diet even though my husband doesn’t understand why, and I’m tired of explaining it to him. My coworkers and students understand it better than him. But I need to do what I need to do for myself.
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Lucy59 Member
Julie, I have a lot of pain and nausea.
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PattiJo Member
Manage your protein intake.
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Julie, thank you for reaching out to me. It's been rather confusing trying to navigate through this, I’m in the early stages of being diagnosis, which has taken months of testing from multiple doctors.
I recently found a virtual class at OSUWMC only to find out I needed a referral, unfortunately I wasn't told what specialist the referral needed to come from. After multiple phone calls and MyChart messages it was figured out. Now I have a referral for a Hemotologist to obtain the referral for the class which covers nutrition and exercises, and hopefully more information on this disease.
Was told by my PCP, who is new to me, to go on the Mediterranean diet, loose weight, and exercise 150 minutes a week. Slowly trying to switch to the new diet. PCP thinks I'm in the early stages of fatty liver disease.
Most days I feel like a medical mess and my body is revolting against me. Hypertension, Obesity, no diabetes, high iron levels(which started the testing, only to discover fatty liver instead of what they thought it was), Osteoarthritis everywhere, two TKRs, surgery in both wrists, cysts on various parts of my body along with Basel Cell carcinoma 2x, IBS, multiple tears, burcytis, tendonitis all in my right shoulder, stenosis in right side of my neck, neropothy right foot with degenerative bone loss being replace with calcium growth, right Achilles tendon repair, and more PT than I thought ever possible. That's just the recent 5 years of issues. Now fatty liver. Waiting for the next shoe to drop.
Now to find out as much as I possibly can and try to remove some of the medications and figure out what to take that is better for my liver. Staying positive through everything as best as possible.
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