Reassurance Needed!!

[Ilovemytwins]

Hi everyone,

Hope someone can help.

Over the last few weeks I have felt more tired than ever despite my twins sleeping better. Also like I am in a fog and a bit depressed! Appetite like a horse! I had the implant in at the end of may and have just read on the Nhs web page that these are common side effects! Has anyone else felt like this?

And I had routine bloods done, my liver came back raised which the doctor says they are not concerned as it has never happened before. But I am to repeat the test in a month. I am panicking that have damaged my liver through drink!! I like a few glasses of wine a night most nights but not to excess. I am scared that I have damaged it beyond repair :( or does it take years of hard drinking?

Please someone help!
Xxxxx

It would not be damaged beyond repair I'm sure, however, and I hope you don't mind me saying this, a few glasses of wine most nights is quite a lot, I think if you cut that down your levels would go down again.

i also agree it doesn't seem like a lot, and I do like a glass or two myself, but to your liver it probably is quite a lot

Are you on any medication?

(as this could cause the elevated enzymes too I think)

Thanks for the replies. No not on any medication. But am now on iron tablets. I will try and cut down the wine at night, most people I know are on 3 glasses before 7! I am not like that.

Xx

i wouldn't judge anyone for wine drinking, am eyeing up a glass myself as we speak

I wouldn't go worrying about anything serious anyway :)

I drink a bit (!) and that in itself makes me tired. I read somewhere that alcohol tainted sleep is nowhere near as refreshing as sober sleep...something about having far less REM cycles I think. Are you drinking more regularly at the mo? I can get by with a couple of alcohol free nights (and therefore a good sleep) twice a week. Thats my minimum before I start to feel it tho.

I had a raised liver test once, and it frightened me, but apparently it is common. Which one was raised? Forget the name, but if it is just the jaundice one (the one that makes you a bit yellow) on it's own, then quite a high percentage of the population have it. I think it's called Gilbert Syndrome or something similar.

I was exhausted after my last pregnancy, for years! Turned out to be a Vitamin D deficiency.