u/beachvibes007

Hi everyone.

I was wondering how everyone has gotten their diagnosis of hepatomegaly and how you have been screened after to check on progress?

I received a ct scan 3/18/26 with the liver coming back at 20cm craniocaudal of right hepatic lobe, and an ultrasound 5/4/26 that said 15.2cm in length.
That seems like a big size discrepancy, the doctors are looking into this but I wanted to see if anyone has had ultrasounds as routine check ups on their liver?

Thank you!

Hi everyone!

I’m sharing this in hopes that somebody has had something similar or has any insight on what I should be asking my primary for next. Sorry for the length of this post.

I am a 28-year-old female. 135lbs. I am five months postpartum. I did IVF for this pregnancy. I did one round Ivf. I had a healthy pregnancy, at the end of the first trimester I was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s and I was put on 75mcg levothyroxine. At about two months postpartum, I started having upper back pain. I do have scoliosis with a fusion from T12 to L3, there is still some curvature in the thoracic region that they did not fuse due to the reduction of mobility I would’ve had. The pain started 2 1/2 months ago when I was baby wearing in a front carrier. I then went to my primary as the pain did not go away and was referred to an ortho where they did a thoracic MRI and a lumbar MRI and a full series of x-rays. the lumbar MRI showed a small disc bulge at L4- L5. The back pain is not as severe as it originally was, but it is still present. The back pain that I’m feeling is right above where my scar is so around T 10 T9. It’s very tender to the touch when I feel that part of my spine. I am currently doing physical therapy to see if I can get any relief. around the same time my levothyroxine dose became too high and and I was going into a hyperthyroid state which sped up my metabolism very much so, and I lost a majority of the extra pregnancy weight way around this time but since then my weight has stabilized. I had a lot of diarrhea. I was super anxious and I returned to the primary doctor where they told me my dose became too high and to stop taking it, since then I have gotten my TSH rechecked and it’s in a normal range where I don’t need medication at this current moment. My bowels have returned to normal for the most part,(no more diarrhea)I do use the bathroom every morning now, before pregnancy I would go maybe every other day, all my stools are soft now, they are intact, but they are just soft. I am not a sure if pelvic floor issues can change this or where the change came from. during the time when my levothyroxine dose became too high and I was having back pain, I Google doctored myself, and I was really concerned that it may be my pancreas so I had returned to my primary and asked for a CT scan, which we did one with without contrast on February 28 and then a second one March 18 with contrast and both came back unremarkable for the pancreas, but it did show an enlarged liver at a 20 cm craniocaudaul length of the right hepatic lobe, then I was referred to a Hepatologist. I saw the hepatologist two weeks ago and he doesn’t believe that any of my other symptoms are related to the liver and he wants to do a fibro scan in two weeks, he ordered multiple liver function blood tests that all returned normal. while I’ve been waiting for the fibro scan, I recently started having left upper quadrant pain that seems to come and go, if I press in the LUQ it is very tender to the touch, I do have to press down pretty hard to reproduce it though. And the occasional ache in my RUQ. I went back to my primary and now they are running more blood test on the pancreas and more liver function test, as of now the doctors have done numerous liver screens, they have tested me for myeloma, lymphoma leukemia, and everything has shown within normal range and negative. A multitude of cbc’s, cmp’s, along with numerous inflammatory markers.

I am concerned that they might’ve missed something on the CT scan on the pancreas, but from all the research I have done. It looks like if there was pancreatic cancer present that enlarged the liver, a pancreatic tumor would have to be of significant size already and there would’ve been other indications on the CT scans showing infiltration within the liver, not purely just enlargement. I am not sure if the gallbladder can play a part here and if the CT scan had missed any gallstones or gallbladder sludge that has caused some sort of blockage somewhere creating an enlarged liver, and now affecting the pancreas. The human body is very confusing to me no matter how much research I do, sorry if any of the above is confusing.

Thank you for any insight.

Hi everyone!

I’m sharing this in hopes that somebody has had something similar or has any insight on what I should be asking my primary for next. Sorry for the length of this post.

I am a 28-year-old female. 135lbs. I am five months postpartum. I did IVF for this pregnancy. I did one round Ivf. I had a healthy pregnancy, at the end of the first trimester I was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s and I was put on 75mcg levothyroxine. At about two months postpartum, I started having upper back pain. I do have scoliosis with a fusion from T12 to L3, there is still some curvature in the thoracic region that they did not fuse due to the reduction of mobility I would’ve had. The pain started 2 1/2 months ago when I was baby wearing in a front carrier. I then went to my primary as the pain did not go away and was referred to an ortho where they did a thoracic MRI and a lumbar MRI and a full series of x-rays. the lumbar MRI showed a small disc bulge at L4- L5. The back pain is not as severe as it originally was, but it is still present. The back pain that I’m feeling is right above where my scar is so around T 10 T9. It’s very tender to the touch when I feel that part of my spine. I am currently doing physical therapy to see if I can get any relief. around the same time my levothyroxine dose became too high and and I was going into a hyperthyroid state which sped up my metabolism very much so, and I lost a majority of the extra pregnancy weight way around this time but since then my weight has stabilized. I had a lot of diarrhea. I was super anxious and I returned to the primary doctor where they told me my dose became too high and to stop taking it, since then I have gotten my TSH rechecked and it’s in a normal range where I don’t need medication at this current moment. My bowels have returned to normal for the most part,(no more diarrhea)I do use the bathroom every morning now, before pregnancy I would go maybe every other day, all my stools are soft now, they are intact, but they are just soft. I am not a sure if pelvic floor issues can change this or where the change came from. during the time when my levothyroxine dose became too high and I was having back pain, I Google doctored myself, and I was really concerned that it may be my pancreas so I had returned to my primary and asked for a CT scan, which we did one with without contrast on February 28 and then a second one March 18 with contrast and both came back unremarkable for the pancreas, but it did show an enlarged liver at a 20 cm craniocaudaul length of the right hepatic lobe, then I was referred to a Hepatologist. I saw the hepatologist two weeks ago and he doesn’t believe that any of my other symptoms are related to the liver and he wants to do a fibro scan in two weeks, he ordered multiple liver function blood tests that all returned normal. while I’ve been waiting for the fibro scan, I recently started having left upper quadrant pain that seems to come and go, if I press in the LUQ it is very tender to the touch, I do have to press down pretty hard to reproduce it though. And the occasional ache in my RUQ. I went back to my primary and now they are running more blood test on the pancreas and more liver function test, as of now the doctors have done numerous liver screens, they have tested me for myeloma, lymphoma leukemia, and everything has shown within normal range and negative. A multitude of cbc’s, cmp’s, along with numerous inflammatory markers.

I am concerned that they might’ve missed something on the CT scan on the pancreas, but from all the research I have done. It looks like if there was pancreatic cancer present that enlarged the liver, a pancreatic tumor would have to be of significant size already and there would’ve been other indications on the CT scans showing infiltration within the liver, not purely just enlargement. I am not sure if the gallbladder can play a part here and if the CT scan had missed any gallstones or gallbladder sludge that has caused some sort of blockage somewhere creating an enlarged liver, and now affecting the pancreas. The human body is very confusing to me no matter how much research I do, sorry if any of the above is confusing.

Thank you for any insight.

Hi everyone!

I’m sharing this in hopes that somebody has had something similar or has any insight on what I should be asking my primary for next. Sorry for the length of this post.

I am a 28-year-old female. 135lbs. I am five months postpartum. I did IVF for this pregnancy. I did one round Ivf. I had a healthy pregnancy, at the end of the first trimester I was diagnosed with Hashimoto’s and I was put on 75mcg levothyroxine. At about two months postpartum, I started having upper back pain. I do have scoliosis with a fusion from T12 to L3, there is still some curvature in the thoracic region that they did not fuse due to the reduction of mobility I would’ve had. The pain started 2 1/2 months ago when I was baby wearing in a front carrier. I then went to my primary as the pain did not go away and was referred to an ortho where they did a thoracic MRI and a lumbar MRI and a full series of x-rays. the lumbar MRI showed a small disc bulge at L4- L5. The back pain is not as severe as it originally was, but it is still present. The back pain that I’m feeling is right above where my scar is so around T 10 T9. It’s very tender to the touch when I feel that part of my spine. I am currently doing physical therapy to see if I can get any relief. around the same time my levothyroxine dose became too high and and I was going into a hyperthyroid state which sped up my metabolism very much so, and I lost a majority of the extra pregnancy weight way around this time but since then my weight has stabilized. I had a lot of diarrhea. I was super anxious and I returned to the primary doctor where they told me my dose became too high and to stop taking it, since then I have gotten my TSH rechecked and it’s in a normal range where I don’t need medication at this current moment. My bowels have returned to normal for the most part,(no more diarrhea)I do use the bathroom every morning now, before pregnancy I would go maybe every other day, all my stools are soft now, they are intact, but they are just soft. I am not a sure if pelvic floor issues can change this or where the change came from. during the time when my levothyroxine dose became too high and I was having back pain, I Google doctored myself, and I was really concerned that it may be my pancreas so I had returned to my primary and asked for a CT scan, which we did one with without contrast on February 28 and then a second one March 18 with contrast and both came back unremarkable for the pancreas, but it did show an enlarged liver at a 20 cm craniocaudaul length of the right hepatic lobe, then I was referred to a Hepatologist. I saw the hepatologist two weeks ago and he doesn’t believe that any of my other symptoms are related to the liver and he wants to do a fibro scan in two weeks, he ordered multiple liver function blood tests that all returned normal. while I’ve been waiting for the fibro scan, I recently started having left upper quadrant pain that seems to come and go, if I press in the LUQ it is very tender to the touch, I do have to press down pretty hard to reproduce it though. And the occasional ache in my RUQ. I went back to my primary and now they are running more blood test on the pancreas and more liver function test, as of now the doctors have done numerous liver screens, they have tested me for myeloma, lymphoma leukemia, and everything has shown within normal range and negative. A multitude of cbc’s, cmp’s, along with numerous inflammatory markers.

I am concerned that they might’ve missed something on the CT scan on the pancreas, but from all the research I have done. It looks like if there was pancreatic cancer present that enlarged the liver, a pancreatic tumor would have to be of significant size already and there would’ve been other indications on the CT scans showing infiltration within the liver, not purely just enlargement. I am not sure if the gallbladder can play a part here and if the CT scan had missed any gallstones or gallbladder sludge that has caused some sort of blockage somewhere creating an enlarged liver, and now affecting the pancreas. The human body is very confusing to me no matter how much research I do, sorry if any of the above is confusing.

Thank you for any insight.