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Are Prescription Drugs The Reason For Elevated Liver Enzymes?

How often are prescription drugs the reason for elevated liver enzymes? The results are as follows AST 52 (range 15-37) ALT 123 (range 12-78) Anion gap 7 (range 8-17) A few things out of range other then this but not much or noteworthy. Young man with HFA, Narcolepsy, depression, anxiety. Takes medication for each, provigil, prozac, ability, buspar
Fri, 25 Sep 2015
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Well the drugs you are using are not in the "first places" of the list of toxic hepatitis anywhere if other causes are excluded viral first, alcohol secondly the we can doubt even on them, so if possible to abstein for one of the drugs you're taking for a while we can go on with a sort of exclusion diagnosis (one by one). Meanwhile you can begin Legalon 200 mg three times a day and Vit E 100 mg three times a day too.
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Are Prescription Drugs The Reason For Elevated Liver Enzymes?

Well the drugs you are using are not in the first places of the list of toxic hepatitis anywhere if other causes are excluded viral first, alcohol secondly the we can doubt even on them, so if possible to abstein for one of the drugs you re taking for a while we can go on with a sort of exclusion diagnosis (one by one). Meanwhile you can begin Legalon 200 mg three times a day and Vit E 100 mg three times a day too.