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71, obese, type 2 diabetic. Never a heavy drinker. Dont drink alcohol much if ever now. On May 1 I went to the er because I threw up black vomit. I had just started taking iron pills on an empty tummy as I’m slightly anemic, ER did a Ct scan with contrast and said no internal bleeding it was probably the dissolved iron pill I threw up. Fast forward a week I go to my pcp for ER follow up. She mentions she can’t access the ct scan, so I went home found it on hospital portal and sent it to her. Now I’ve had numerous ct scans without contrast in the past four years due to digestive issues. I’ve had CDiff twice for example. All ct scans came back saying liver unremarkable including one last year. Now suddenly this latest ct scan with contrast says “Liver: cirrhosis, 0.7 cm hepatic cyst”. I’m guessing all those scans without contrast missed it unless it’s a mistake. I’ve never been diagnosed with fatty liver and suddenly I have cirrhosis. It doesn’t even say compensated or decompensated. So I’m freaking out. My pcp wants a liver elastography ultrasound and I can’t get an appointment until May 28. So I’m trying not to get scared to death in the meantime. My liver bloodwork all shows normal levels. One or two on the low side of normal. Certainly nothing high. I’ve already been on Mediterranean diet for a while, I can’t eat red meat hence the slight anemia. Again I don’t drink alcohol. I’m trying to get more exercise, and I’m always trying to lose weight. Don’t really have any symptoms other than a little fatigue nausea and loss of appetite, which are symptoms of lots of things.

Is it even possible the hospital is misreading the ct scan. I should add a year ago at the same hospital they gave me an abdominal ct scan and a brain ct scan (numbness in arm turned out to be neck pinched nerve) both without contrast, they said the brain scan showed I’d had two strokes. One old one and one new one, they admitted me for an MRI test the next morning. Week later the MRI test showed NO SIGNS of stroke. So they can read the ct scan wrong sometimes. I’m praying this cirrhosis they found isn’t real, even though they used contrast. Guess I’ll find out May 28 after the liver elastography ultrasound. Anyone had a similar experience

I’ve had several ct scans without contrast over the years since getting CDiff twice, as they checked my abdomen, using ct scans without contrast and liver has always come back unremarkable. My liver blood work is all in the normal range AST etc. Now a year after my last ct scan without contrast, I started testing slightly anemic, and began iron pills , then 4 days later began throwing up black vomit, so I stopped the iron, went to the ER and they did a CT scan WITH Contrast, and luckily I had no internal bleeding. So they sent me home. A week later I’m at my pcp for ER follow up, she mentions she never saw the CT scan. I went home logged into the hospital and copied it and sent it to her. After she and I read it for the first time we saw it says Liver: cirrhosis, 0.7 cm hepatic cyst. My PCP messaged me late tonight she wants an ultrasound. I’m freaking out, I don’t drink alcohol, I’m obese and have type 2 diabetes but I’ve never been diagnosed with fatty liver, and now all of a sudden I have cirrhosis. It doesn’t make sense. Did the no contrast ct scans all miss fatty liver fibrosis. How come I’m in the cirrhosis category so suddenly. I’m confused and scared to death. I’m old.

I just bought a 7 cup glass pitcher filter, and I’m hoping somone else has one and can tell me how they get the filter housing out. It’s so tight up against the glass, is there a trick to getting it out.