Hi, cherokeesister3, and welcome to this forum of nice people. My liver readings sometimes go high, but milk thistle always seems to bring my readings back to normal. However, I had a very good friend diagnosed with NASH, which is like cirrhosis of the liver not from alcohol. She never consumed a drop of alcohol in her life. However, her doctors told her that her liver problems were the result of medications she had been on for other conditions. Ask your doctor what s/he thinks might have caused your enlarged liver, and ask if it might be medication-induced. Best wishes to you.

Years ago I read a book about lupus by a woman who regained a lot of her health after lupus diagnosis and severe illness. She cut out all the stressful things in her life and relied on Traditional Chinese Medicine aka TCM.

The main focus of the Chinese approach was supporting the liver, which Chinese medicine considers a very important organ. She took milk thistle and other liver medicines as part of her regimen.

She made dramatic improvements and that's why she wrote the book. Of course authors often make that claim and it's only one person with lupus. But still, I thought a lot of what she wrote made a lot of sense. She herself said that she was only sharing her own experience with lupus.

Her experience with conventional medicine in Canada was a disaster for her, they all but told her she wasn't going to make it. When she got off all her meds and went home to die, she started getting better.

I'm sorry...I can't remember her name. I got the book at the library and they don't seem to have it anymore. Our library is a little strange...books disappear from the shelves and catalogs.

Anyway, the TCM approach emphasized the liver as a focus for lupus treatment...so I guess it's involved somehow.

I have known of at lease 2 people who had liver problems from Sjogrens. Do you have that too?
Mary Ann

thanks everyone for your responses:) I have been told by several people to try the milk thisle, so i will pick some up and give it a whirl. I recently went to a new DR. he was amazing, he acturally took a good hour with me and went over my entire history (which is very long), he has ordered allot of new labs and a MRI then a liver biopsy, he felt that it is the lupus that is causing my enlarged liver, (the pain is becoming unbearable), i actually feel hopeful that this DR will take good care of me, something i havenot felt in along time, he is concerned about the Messenteric Panniculitis (infection with enlarged lymph nodes) and wants to get to the source. I was told a few yrs. ago i might have sjogrens as i had severe dry eyes, nose and mouth, however, my labs were normal...so we all know that labs dont tell all. I could have it. Thank you all for posting. I go in Monday for labs then thurs. back to new doc..wish me luck):