Liver and steroid injection?

Digestive health
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I don`t know if Mrs Mop..or anybody can advise me (for my sister) she is waiting for the results of an MRI liver scan...she is struggling to eat...feeling very "blown up in stomach" by all foods....she had a bad reaction originally from taking Methotrexate....hence the liver problems...but, she has very painful arthritis...and desperately needs another steroid injection (in buttock for all over pain)  do you think she could have this now while waiting for the results....she is waiting for a letter from the hospital, but this all takes too much time!  Thank you for any advice...

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Hi Linda, would she go to her GP for the injection?  S/he can telephone the hospital for the result and would probably give your sister the steroid injection because that doesn't go through the gastro intestinal tract into the liver.

I think your sister should contact her GP and not wait for the letter.

 

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Thank you, as I was writing this morning, my sister got the lettter from the hospital...it said she needed an endoscopy to remove stones...and a later operation to remove her gall bladder, which has stones also. No mention of a problem actually with her liver, so we are presuming the stones are causing the chest pain, and stomach bloating?  ..I have now told her to ring the hospital rheumatology dept, to discuss this....any advice on endoscopy and stone removal? Thanks again....

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Gall bladder problems can cause all sorts, like the bloating and pain, this page might help you to understand

https://patient.info/doctor/gallstones-and-cholecystitis

They can zap the stones these days if they aren't too big.

I'll put a link to the NHS website following this post,  it explains the procedure.

 

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http://www.nhs.uk/conditions/Laparoscopiccholecystectomy/Pages/Introduction.aspx

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I have just read to the bottom of the Patient link, go to 'Further reading' etc and click on the  'single incision laparoscopic cholecystectomy' etc..  I am hoping that will explain what you need to know.  I haven't looked yet!

I hope all goes well for your sister, I'm sure it will.

 

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Thank you for all your info, I will pass this on to my sister....the hospital are to contact her doctor to allow the steroid before she has the op....at least her pain from Arthritis will be eased!.....

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It is so much easier to cope with ops etc., when you are pain free, isn't it?  And when you can sleep too.

 

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Oh yes!