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What Causes Increased Right-sided Abdominal Pain And High Iron Levels?
Hi, I am a 45 year old male on lots of pain meds due to spinal condition. I have had steady rise in my liver profile to over 200 & increased right abdominal pain (intermittent), recent higher iron levels. Yesterday I started to excrete orange fluid from skin when I was sweating what could this be????
Thank you for the question. Due to your liver function disorder either by medicine or some primary disease, the the liver tests should be undertaken by a gastroenterologist.It seems iron level in body is high due to it so treatment for liver should begin after diagnosis of disorder.The treatment for iron overload is iron reduction therapy. A person's hemoglobin is key in the physician's decision of iron reduction therapy. If the patient's hemoglobin level is sufficient to tolerate blood removal (phlebotomy), the doctor can provide either an order for therapeutic phlebotomies or can recommend that a patient routinely donate blood. When a patient's hemoglobin is too low for phlebotomy, iron reduction will likely require iron-chelation, which is the removal of iron using specific drugs. In some situations the physician may use a combination of these two therapies.You mau consult a clinical hematologist also as early as possible. pain in abdomen may be related to high iron content as well
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What Causes Increased Right-sided Abdominal Pain And High Iron Levels?
Thank you for the question. Due to your liver function disorder either by medicine or some primary disease, the the liver tests should be undertaken by a gastroenterologist.It seems iron level in body is high due to it so treatment for liver should begin after diagnosis of disorder.The treatment for iron overload is iron reduction therapy. A person s hemoglobin is key in the physician s decision of iron reduction therapy. If the patient s hemoglobin level is sufficient to tolerate blood removal (phlebotomy), the doctor can provide either an order for therapeutic phlebotomies or can recommend that a patient routinely donate blood. When a patient s hemoglobin is too low for phlebotomy, iron reduction will likely require iron-chelation, which is the removal of iron using specific drugs. In some situations the physician may use a combination of these two therapies.You mau consult a clinical hematologist also as early as possible. pain in abdomen may be related to high iron content as well