I'm not sure if this is the right place to
post this, so i'm posting it in different
forums in hopes one will be the right one.
I need advice on what you guys make of
my results. Thanks!
Yesterday I was admitted to the hospital
by ambulance after I had passed out three
times in the morning, soon after starting
to sweat profusely and having tingling
arms. I was in extreme abdominal pain,
not pregnant, and only 19 (soon 20). My
blood pressure was 107/57 before I left
the hospital, and my blood sugar was 98
before haven even eating something.
The diagnosis after a long, long day at
the hospital was a fluid filled cyst on my
left ovary, not cancerous, and not
necessary to immediately have it removed.
It had ruptured a bit and some of the
fluif had leaked, causing the pain.
Treatment will be birth control (which I
have had trouble with in the past
hormonally) and constant checkups due to
the information that my mother has, or
atleast had endometriosis prior to having
a severe hysterectomy last june.
Along with the results of my pain, I was
given a complete list of numbers for
things such as electrolytes, potassium,
calcium, glucose, billirubin, and etc.
What I am curious about is my billirubin
came back rather high (2.4) but my liver
panel and functions were fine. I do not
suffer from jaundice and for the last two
months I have steered away from fattening
foods, and have put in 18-20 hours of
exercise since july 2nd.
My glucose was 98 prior to eating, and it
was checked at about 7 in the morning.
Both of these numbers concern me, simply
because what could be raising the
billirubin? I do take a b complex 100
supplement for serotonin balance by
directions of a doctor, and I take
l-lysine supplement (about 1000-2000mg) to
prevent coldsores of my lips (i get them
severely, and coincidently I had no
chicken pox antibodies -- a similar strand
in the herpes simplex family). I am not
very big on drinking milk, and I hadn't
been eating much yogurt so the supplement
seemed a good idea to keep my coldsores at
bay. Could either of these supplements
be raising my billirubin, even though
they're supplements i'm taking that are
necessary for the body but i'm not getting
them in my diet?
As for the glucose, at 7am in the morning,
a 98-glucose seems kind of odd to me. I
was hungry the night before, but the last
thing I had was a bowl of fruit at about
9pm. Could I be diabetic, or at risk for
diabetes?
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Posted: 07-23-06 16:53pm
I'm guessing that's the test result of
your total bilirubin? What's considered
normal is anywhere from 0.3 to 1.9 mg/dl
and yours being 2.4 means you're not that
far from normal. Fasting may sometimes
cause an increase in bilirubin. If your
doctor wasn't worried about it, then you
shouldn't be either.
i'm guessing that's the test
result of your total bilirubin? What's
considered normal is anywhere from 0.3 to
1.9 mg/dl and yours being 2.4 means you're
not that far from normal. Fasting may
sometimes cause an increase in bilirubin.
If your doctor wasn't worried about it,
then you shouldn't be
either.
the doctor was worried about it though.
I have to go and have my gallbladder
checked out. He was confused though that
my bilirubin was so high while my liver
panel was fine. Also, as for fasting, I
hadn't eaten since 9pm the night before..
They took my blood at 7am. Is the period
you're generally supposed to be sleeping
considered fasting?
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Posted: 07-23-06 19:34pm
Fasting is usually no calories for atleast
12 hours. Other liver function tests can
be normal with elevated bilirubin, but it
rarely indicates a major problem. An
abdominal ultrasound would be exteremely
helpful in ruling out any biliary or liver
pathology.
