Simvastatin and fatty liver

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Avatar m tn Warnings and Precautions Because simvastatin can affect the liver, it is used with caution in people who drink more than a moderate amount of alcohol or have a history of liver disease. Simvastatin is not recommended for people with liver disease or high liver enzymes before treatment begins. Possible Symptoms of Liver Problems Several symptoms can occur in someone who develops liver problems while taking simvastatin.
Avatar f tn Can medications to lower high chlorestorol damage your liver, I have non-alcoholic fatty liver disease now and I am afraid to take statin drugs. How important is my concern. Simvastatin is one in particular.
Avatar n tn it works on fatty liver more than hbv, if there is fatty liver the dose is 800iu - red yeast rice supplements with monacolins content higher than 5mg or simvastatin 40-80mg daily.cholesterol is used by virus to make antigens and virions and for their assembly inside cells.
Avatar m tn raised ALT could be due to many things including drugs, fatty liver and immune system fighting the virus. I do not know your full history. but Stopping simvastatin may help. Getting good BMI to reduce fatty liver. may help.
Avatar n tn simvastain makes liver cancer cells apoptosis (suicide) while keeping healthy normal cells, it also prevents fatty liver and fibrosis and imporves cirrhotic livers
Avatar f tn is to consider in a more direct way that alcohol poisons the liver and makes it fatty. Your medications have been prescribed to help breakdown and eliminate the production of cholesterol and dilate your blood vessels.
Avatar m tn Yes iam trying to losse weight and cut on my alcohal The ultrasound showed a fatty liver but the person said its cause of weight... i will do it again... if it still shows fatty shall i go ahead for biopsy ? I want to avoid it.. When u say the medicine u suggested is not antiviral does that mean i dont have to be on them all my life as requied by hbeag -ve patients .. ???
Avatar m tn 4 [0027] These cases involve the administration of simvastatin to patients with known Hepatitis B and C, and other causes of liver cirrhosis, mainly alcoholic. All of these patients had normal alphafetoprotein levels and were given simvastatin on a daily basis since their first diagnosis of their liver disease. None of these patients showed an elevation of alphafetoprotein during an observation period.
Avatar m tn Statins work in the liver and every commercial I have seen advises not to take if you have liver problems. Zetia works in the intestines. Was the Zetia working? If my memory serves me correctly, MikeS is taking statins and he had a TP. He is far more knowledgeable on the subject than I am and hopefully he will see this post and give his input. Zetia is part of a class of drugs called cholesterol absorption inhibitors.
Avatar n tn I have been on 20 mg of simvastatin and 3000 mg niaspan now my ck levels have went from 60 to 295 i could hardly walk .will my levels come down if i lower dose. and reverse damage. i have 12 stents .the rest of my blood work is fine.
Avatar m tn Simvastatin is contraindicated in pregnancy and liver disease, according to Wikipedia. I also know that Cresor 40mg is not recommended for Asians. I would like to know why you believe simvastatin and or statin in geneal have ant-hbv activities? Have you heard of cases where statins cause acute liver failure in chronic hbv patients?
Avatar m tn I agree with Jon. I just had blood work done and the lab considers anything over 51 high. My ALT is 58, but it has been as high as 90 about 12 years ago, when I was fifty pounds heavier. Both my cholesterol and ALT scores decreased as I lost weight. I started taking a statin about 12 years ago, so the ALT scores decreased while taking the statin. You should, in my opinion, mix in daily exercise, take the statin, lose weight, and eat less fatty meats and dairy.
907968 tn?1292622204 -- Long-term use of cholesterol-lowering statins does not increase the risk of liver disease in patients with abnormal liver function, and can actually improve liver function, according to a new study that challenges widespread belief. The researchers also pointed out that this study is the first to show that statins provide a substantially greater cardiovascular benefit in patients with abnormal liver function than in those with normal liver function. The study, published in the Nov.
Avatar n tn was on lipitor for 5 months and switched two weeks ago to simvastatin in hopes of less side effects. just got some blood work done and the liver enzymes are elevated about one and a half times normal. does anyone know if its normal to see a spike in liver enzymes after switching statins or does this mean my body is rejecting the new statin?
Avatar f tn no it is not approved and it will never get approved because it is too cheap and off patent now but simvastatin is now proved to prevent liver cancer and fibrosis so all hbvers are suggested to use it with ast/alt monitoring do not wait for an approval or a trial noone will pay for it because there is no payback sim is too cheap.
Avatar m tn 5 or 2g 2g can lower healthy bacteria in the stomach of some so probiotics are suggested on the 2g dose of alinia and on simvastatin it is better to check main blood tests, liver tests and creatinine for kidneys every 6 months
Avatar m tn Tenofovir and Entecarvir only stop or reverse liver damage. Yes, it could help you get undetectable HBV DNA, but it also worsen your liver cells' infection? Does that even make sense? Because they inhibit HBV from growing, should they lower your virus load, then your liver should become less infected, and have time to repair itself? Alinia seems promising at dose 2g/day for HBeAg negative.
Avatar m tn check also who is making the research on simvastatin, and that liver damage has been removed recently, at least here in italy
428155 tn?1203688894 in New Zealand), which my GP had prescribed me 2 years beforehand to control my cholesterol level. I stopped simvastatin and all fibrillations have disappeared. As I was taking simvastatin, I was in fibrillation 17% of the time; 1 month after I stopped simvastatin, the level was down to 0%. I am now experimenting with alternative cholesterol control methods: Omega 3 gels, ground linseed, charcoal.
Avatar m tn But in an in vitro study you have a constant exposure to the drug, which is impossible to achieve in vivo. And the cells used are not the same as regular hepatocytes in human liver, with many differences in gene expression and cellular physiology.
Avatar m tn ) For the past 20 years, I have avoided NSAIDs, acetaminophens, other pain relievers and muscle relaxants because of their adverse effects to liver and kidneys (personally more significant because my dad had kidney disease). Since cannabidiol inhibits the liver's production of cytochrome P450, I am wondering about switching from simvastatin to pravastatin. That would allow me to try CBD, which appears to have minimal side-effects.