Hello
I am new here to the boards...
First a little introduction: I am a 24-year old female, 110 lbs, 5.6 feet, I drink very rarely and has never been a person who drank much, was a former smoker (for about 5 years and 10 to 15 cigarettes a day, non-smoker now for about five months), hep a,b,c tested negative, my nutriton is more healthy than too unhealthy and I do not exercise so much.
Don`t wanna sound hypocondriac but I have these symptoms, some of them quite long in my life, others of them about some years or coming and going.
-nails look strange for a very long time, like in liver disease (saw this on coincidence at an image on the web)
-difficulties concentrating and clumsiness since child age, later also mood problems (irritability, easily angry, withdrawal) ,concentration got a bit worse instead of better
-forgetfullness
-flatulence (especially in the evening/night) and often constipation
-sometimes I have this dull ache/pressure under my right ribcage for a while, often accompanied by pale and soft stools (constipation or frequent stools) ,this thing only sometimes comes and goes
-itching, ( reddish) points which come and go
-some mild itches and easily being drunken in my head also when drinking very little of high percent alcohol
-sometimes feelings of weakness
-periods of being easily fatigued, especially in the afternoon, very fast changing energy levels
-mental fatigue (lethargy)
-sometimes waking up between 1 and 3 a.m.
-easily feeling cold or sometimes hot (especially in face)
-my menstruation has never been normal, started out a bit irregular and got rarer ,weaker and shorter-durating by the years, ct of sexual organs normal but it was made some longer time ago
-my recent thyroid levels showed up that I am borderline to pituitary hypo-thyroidism, but CT of head and thyroid are normal
-feeling of being hungry very easily and feeling weak, but blood sugar is normal
-some few occasions with mild impaired fasting glycemia (105-115) in the past two years, but normal OGTTs and after meal readings
At the moment I have this problem with the dull pressure under my right ribcage and annerving digestion problems again, but I had this checked out one and a half year ago when I also had it for some weeks.
And they found normal blood results including normal liver enzymes and so I wanted to ask if it is possible to have a liver problem although?
I once wrote on another board about my problems a bit longer ago and some user referred me to the topic Wilson`s disease.
By now I only know that it is a disease where you build up too much copper and that it occurs rarely but mostly in young people my age or younger and it damages liver and other organs.
Oddly my skin turns a bit coppery (or orangish?) in summer and some greyish-yellow in winter and my hair is also of copper-brown color, which has changed over the years (from blond, dark-blondish)
Now I don`t know if I should be concerned or not because there are always periods when I have these "suspicious" symptoms, then feel better again or some vague chronic complaints.
My last ultrasound which included the liver was some 5 or 6 years ago, my last ultrasounds were in the last year (head and thyroid gland) and on the back (because of backache) and they made the kidneys, said they look normal, but they didn`t make liver and other organs.
I don`t like going to the dr because he always treats me strangely when I have a suspicion about an issue of my body (for example if I would say liver, he would ask me why and if I read too much in the internet)
Yes I sometimes read in the internet but I already knew what liver symptoms look like-from biology lesson in school.
So should I be worried and trust normal blood LFTs or should I ask my dr about a ct?
By the way recently one doctor also raised a suspicion that I may be having a mild problem with my heart muscle (because of sometimes mild dizziness and shortness of breath while lying flat for longer time), but this would be investigated at another appointment if it doesn`t stem from a common cold and gets by without any treatment by itself again...