Elevated Liver Enzymes

[kimis]

If your liver enzymes are high for years and years dose that cause damage to your liver? Mine were high for about 6 years and they are not completely normal yet. I have had all kinds of tests, and my doctor says it will go down on the gluten-free diet...I think it will too, but I wonder how my liver is doing...could there be scar tissue from this, or could I possibly get liver disease or liver failure over time of the levels staying high? What if I never found out I have Celiac Disease....

[Lisa]

Here is some information for you to brows through:

https://www.celiac.com/categories/Celiac-Di...Celiac-Disease/

[ShayFL]

Mine were slightly elevated prior to gluten-free and have returned to normal.

[jerseyangel]

Mine were also slightly elevated before diagnosis and returned quickly to normal on the gluten-free diet.

Recently, after a prolonged glutening (long, stupid story on my part), they went up again. After exhaustive testing, after which my levels returned to normal, my GI feels the episode was "Sprue-related".

Hopefully yours will normalize after you're on the diet for a while. Your doctor should keep tabs on it, and if it's truly persistant after a reasonable amount of time it might warrent further testing.

[kimis]

Mine were also slightly elevated before diagnosis and returned quickly to normal on the gluten-free diet.

Recently, after a prolonged glutening (long, stupid story on my part), they went up again. After exhaustive testing, after which my levels returned to normal, my GI feels the episode was "Sprue-related".

Hopefully yours will normalize after you're on the diet for a while. Your doctor should keep tabs on it, and if it's truly persistant after a reasonable amount of time it might warrent further testing.

I would love to hear you glutening story!

[jerseyangel]

I would love to hear you glutening story!

I was going along fine and last spring I decided to lose some of this weight I've gained as a result of menopause and too many gluten-free baked goods. I had success years ago with a low-carb diet, so I did it again, only this time gluten-free.

Being a snacker, I found myself eating more nuts and to save time I bought bags of Diamond shelled walnuts. I swear, I had checked them for safety previously......(famous last words!)

So, I'm eating these daily--mixed into my trail mix, out of the bag--you name it. Even after I found myself getting sick much more often, I thought well, gee--maybe it's another intolerance, an ingredient in my shampoo, my nerves, the heat, the chiropracter..... I considered everything but these stupid nuts! You'd have thought I might have followed some of my own advice!

Well, during this whole time, I had my regular visit with my GP--and that's how the elevated liver enzymes came up. Two of them were slightly elevated, and after retesting a week later, they were all elevated.

I get referred to the GI, and cut to the testing story above. Somewhere along the line at this point, I get the bright idea to have a look at the bag of nuts--and there it was...."made on the same equipment as wheat....." does not cover how I felt at that moment.....

When I called the company to confirm this (still in shock at my own stupidity), I was told that "yes, the shelled walnuts are now make along the same lines as the newer flavored walnuts".

[trents]

I had mildly elevated liver enzymes for about 12 years before Celiac dx. After going gluten free for 3 months they were in the normal range. My albumin and total protein remained supressed for about four years after going gluten free, however and are just now back into the low end of normal. I attribute it to live damage 'cause albumen is manufactured by the liver. So I think the answer to your question is yes, it can cause liver damage. The good news is the liver is the most resilliant organ in the body.

Steve

[photobabe42]

I had elevated liver enzymes (about 10x too high) during a CMV overload combined with a sinus infection over the summer. At the time, we thought it was due to the amount of Tylenol that I was taking for the headache and fever. The enzymes eventually subsided, but not before I started experiencing some Celiac symptoms like unexplained nausea and D that were attributed at the time to my Crohn's disease. I tested negative for Celiac after asking for the Enterolab test but have started gluten-free anyway (and trying to do casein free too). I wonder if there was any connection to my liver enzymes and the Celiac symptoms. I'm having mixed results on the diet so far and am wondering if I need to cut out other foods for awhile. I would be interested to hear about others who have experienced elevated liver enzymes.

[kimis]

I was going along fine and last spring I decided to lose some of this weight I've gained as a result of menopause and too many gluten-free baked goods. I had success years ago with a low-carb diet, so I did it again, only this time gluten-free.

Being a snacker, I found myself eating more nuts and to save time I bought bags of Diamond shelled walnuts. I swear, I had checked them for safety previously......(famous last words!)

So, I'm eating these daily--mixed into my trail mix, out of the bag--you name it. Even after I found myself getting sick much more often, I thought well, gee--maybe it's another intolerance, an ingredient in my shampoo, my nerves, the heat, the chiropracter..... I considered everything but these stupid nuts! You'd have thought I might have followed some of my own advice!

Well, during this whole time, I had my regular visit with my GP--and that's how the elevated liver enzymes came up. Two of them were slightly elevated, and after retesting a week later, they were all elevated.

I get referred to the GI, and cut to the testing story above. Somewhere along the line at this point, I get the bright idea to have a look at the bag of nuts--and there it was...."made on the same equipment as wheat....." does not cover how I felt at that moment.....

When I called the company to confirm this (still in shock at my own stupidity), I was told that "yes, the shelled walnuts are now make along the same lines as the newer flavored walnuts".

I can't belive your story....Maybe that is why mine are still high! I eat Nature's Path cereal everyday....on the bag it states something about being prossesedin the same facility as wheat. It is the puffed corn cereal, there is no forms of gluten in the cereal.......that CC sucks

[jerseyangel]

I can't belive your story....Maybe that is why mine are still high! I eat Nature's Path cereal everyday....on the bag it states something about being prossesedin the same facility as wheat. It is the puffed corn cereal, there is no forms of gluten in the cereal.......that CC sucks

Well, like I said, my GI said that Celiac can affect our liver. Like all the other lovely symptoms, it doesn't happen to everyone and that's why they like to rule out other causes.

Maybe go through your foods and topical products and get out the suspicious stuff and see if that makes a difference .