UPDATE ON MY MUM

Mum has been hospitalised abut 3 times from the last time i updated.She has been out from last week Thursday and seems to be very reserved and quiet.Not eating as well as she used,very jaundiced and very tired and sleepy.What i would like to find out she has been having a high fever for a number of days as well as feeling very very cold and complaining of backache.Was checking on the internet and they say these are also symptoms of liver cancer.Did anybody on the forum have cirrohsis of the liver turn into liver cancer.Would like to know more about what i should look out for?

Cindy, are you sure it's not CHF...congestive heart failure?

If she's running a fever, it sounds more like an infection.  Is she on Xifaxan?  I actually had liver cancer.  I also have cirrhosis, but never thought of the cirrhosis causing the cancer...more that it was caused by hep C, as I know that having hep C puts one at high risk for hepatocellular carcinoma or HCC.  I did not run a fever at all.  I had loss of appetite for several weeks after having chemoembolization.  I had no symptoms at all of cancer.  It was diagnosed when I had my regular annual sonogram of the liver...and at that point the tumor was 12 cm x 11.5 cm.  I honestly think they missed it the previous year.

If the fever has developed since her last hospital discharge, it is more likely that she picked up an infection while hospitalized.  You should contact her doctor about this as a fever is never "normal."

Hugs,

Connie

Aw, okay, British equivalent of CHF is CCF.  Thanks, Dany!  I also read that jaundice can be accompanied with fever, but Cindy didn't mention jaundice.

Hugs,

Connie

Please let us know what the GP says or does.

Hugs,

Connie