“How to treat a problematic liver?”
My doctor told me that my liver is not functioning properly. What does this mean? What treatments do I need to fix my liver?
1 Answer
Impossible to answer your question specifically without knowing waht your MD means by "not functioning" (this is not a billable diagnosis!) and if it truly is functioning poorly in a measurable way, which of the many kinds of "liver diseas" is causing this, but I can offer some reassurance by saying the that majority of "liver diseases" have a specific treatment (although for the two most common---alcohol and nonalcoholic fatty liver disease---the best treatments involve change in lifestyle---i.e. abstinence from alcohol or very significant change in diet respectively. A few diseases have no good treatment, but are rare, and any liver disease that progresses to cirrhosis can be "cured" by a liver transplant. A more specific answer could be crafted if a more specific diagnosis were available.
