Why Would A Doctor Not Tell You About A Liver Anomaly On Blood Results?

[joko]

((this has some history please see some of my last few posts in body & soul if you want more info))

in july, I was in hospital with a serious issue - an ulcer in a bad places causes my duodenum to get swollen & blocked - so totally curable, just unlucky & not connected to the issue i'm posting about here, its for back story.


While i was in the hospital, various tests flagged up a Liver anomaly.
They could find nothing on any scans, it seemed to only show up in bloods & the docs are still not sure what it is.
They wanted to wait a little while until i was better, in case it was temporary because of the reason i was in hospital - and they thought the anomaly couldve been caused by that & the treatments i was given.

Months later ive been back to the liver clinic & they still dont know what it is, so they took 12 phials of blood for more tests.

However, yesterday i went on Patient Access and viewed my past medical records, and it showed that a liver anomaly had also detected in 2021 - almost a year ago.
I was told all ok, in fact i think they told me i was low on folic acid & thats it.

so why wouldnt they tell me and organise further tests?

are there other things that can show up as an anomaly but are actually not really a liver issue?

Any ideas?

thanks :)

((it is entirely possible that my stomach blockage had been there for a few years - as i was getting weird symptoms that i couldnt find a cause for - but that it was eventually allowing the food through & crisis averted, & i was putting it down to indigestion & symptoms of my other health issues, but it finally got blocked completely - so that could explain the liver anomaly bakc then too???))

[Peter Pedant]

In a good going cack up never underestimate the role of sheer incompetence.

They didnt notice OR they noticed and discounted it OR they noticed it as part of the current picture and not something new

I dont think it is significant. By and large you are on the NHS diagnostic conveyor belt and it really is quite efficient.

( a much more technical explanation [ a thousand ABers go zzzz] is that if yu run off 20 technical test then one is likely to be abnormal. What about the same test, 20 times? not sure about that one. From stats, 20 test, E(x)=1 so one will be abnormal. I said it was technical)
AND
( o god a passing mod is gonna zap this and a thousand ABers will wake and exclaim "wha' da funicular" and 'foo!' Good to hear that your duodenal has been fixedd. Micro-sqads are taught ( Ellis and Calne I think) that duodenal ulcers do 4Bs - block, burst, bore and bleed. - You had a block -adult pyloric stenosis, far outnumbered by infant pyloric stenosis in children under 8 weeks ( yes WEEKS eader) of age. You are no 3 in my lists of adult pyloric stenosis that I know about. I am 71 1/2)

[Sqad]

The doctor may not teel you about an anomoly on liver function tests as it may not be relevant to your particular problem.
A big mistake in medicine made by all of us at some time is that the finding of a rogue test is the reason for the patient's illness..........it isn't more often that not.
Without knowing the results of the liver blood tests, one cannot comment.
you give a full history but is meaningless without producing the results for ou scrutiny.

[Peter Pedant]

Oh, I made a lot of sense out of it

[joko]

thanks all,

sqad - still havent had the results, there was so many of them they said they will take a while, gave me a 2 month wait.
weirdly he said about 3 weeks to my face, but the letter i received a couple of weeks later said 2 months.
they all seem to be baffled so far, because i dont fit certain criteria for things they initially suspected - ie, im not obese & not an alcoholic
maybe they thought of a few more tests they could do, or wanted to do some research or something.

[Sqad]

Be patient joko, your medical carers would not hold back a significant blood result from you.

[joko]

but they already have.
there was a liver anomaly showing up a year before i even got ill with the ulcer thing ... so they could have been testing/treating my liver ages ago.
if i hadnt become ill with something else, they wouldnt have done anything about it, i could have gone years, while it was getting worse.

should i not have been told about it a year ago & something get done about it? rather than it being found by chance because i was already ill in hospital with something else.

if its something serious, I've missed a year of potential treatment, because they ignored the test results from 2021!

[Sqad]

I have given my thoughts in previous posts.
If one year ago, there was a significant blood abnormality then you would have been told, as you weren't, then it was deemed "insignificant."

[joko]

ok thanks