High liver enzymes; is Doxy the cause or tinctures?

Hi all, I come to you in hopes that you might be able to help me with a problem that I have with high liver enzymes.

Last month I tested for liver and pancreas enzymes and my AST and ALT were high (AST:41 (0-40IU/L) & ALT:72 (0-44IU/L). The numbers were of concern so my PCP ordered another test a month later (this week) and the numbers are now AST 74 and ALT 126. As you can see the numbers doubled in just a month.

The reason that I requested the initial test was that last month I took Diflucan for a week. I assumed that the high numbers were due to the Diflucan so I stopped it immediately and have not taken it since.

You can imagine my shock to see my numbers doubled a month later. I have been taking Doxycycline for a few months now and before posting this message I read that Doxy can raise liver enzymes.

I read a post from CD3764 that he/she had problems with Doxy so I hope he/she reads this post and offers some advice along with any of you that may have some suggestions.

My questions are:
-- Even though these numbers are higher than normal, are these considered very high? Dangerous high?
-- Does stopping Doxy return the liver back to normal or is the damage permanent, from your experience?
-- Does Milk Thistle help the liver with the liver enzymes?
-- In your experience, if the liver does return back to normal after stopping the abx, how long before I see the numbers begin to return to normal?
-- Does hepatitis show in an ultrasound? I had an ultrasound done of the liver and pancreas a few weeks ago due to the high numbers and there was no abnormality.

I am seriously in panic mode right now because of my high numbers. I lost a friend to liver failure a few months ago. He was fine one day and a few months later he was dead of liver failure. He didn't drink so that wasn't the cause.

BTW, I am also taking Cat's Claw, houttuynia, Japanese Knotweed, Ashwagandha, cryptolepis, sida acuta, Alchornea, B vitamin complex, multivitamin, Turmeric, vitamin D3, green tea, probiotics (10 strains, 50 Billion).

Is it possible that one of the herbs that I am taking could also be affecting the liver?

I would really appreciate your input please.

I would stop the antibiotics and maybe even the herbs.

It's also a possibility that the infection is also affecting your liver.

After my break - I went on minocycline and rifampin...and my liver enzymes continued to drop...and they are still in range...

Was it the antibiotics? was it the herbs? I'm not back on the sida/hout/crypto yet - just Japanese Knotweed.

I was worried at first, too, but my regular GP said she's seen liver enzymes a lot higher than mine were...

You'll feel better once you stop for a bit and retest and they are back in range.

Girlie already covered the bases but, yes, my liver enzymes became elevated when on doxy and taking 125mg milk thistle brought them back into range and they stayed that way.

I'm taking 17 different herbal tinctures 3x daily - anywhere from 1/4 tsp of each to 1 tsp. I decided to take milk thistle 2x daily to play things safe and have had really good liver numbers all along.

I'm fashionably late to the conversation, right?

What are you doing to either protect or detox your liver? Milk thistle is the go to for most people.

phsinvent - Just wanted to say that I know people who have treated bart with success with only two antibiotics.
I believe our member,Chapelle only did two antibiotics for bart.

Not all LL Dr.'s prescribe more than two antibiotics.

I treated Bart successfully with herbs - the Chronic Tonic and Houttuynia and I made medicinal teas with them. I have recently been reinfected and treated Lyme successfully but was unaware that I had also picked up Bart and Babs again, so I'm now back in treatment for those. I'm starting out with the CT and Houttuynia (almost up to full doses as of this week!!) and have confidence I'll heal again.

I believe there are many ways to treat Bart - it just depends on what that person's body will work with and what else they may be dealing with, as well as how high their bacterial loads are and how well their body can detox.

I was reinfected while in town grocery shopping. How's that for irony? It's not necessarily where we are, as I've talked to people that live in a very, very large city, never go out other than for work, and don't have a yard, grass, or even trees near them, and yet they were infected as well. There are a lot of insects that carry these infections now, including mosquitoes and biting flies, bed bugs, and more.

I live in a very heavily wooded area, but I grew up in one as well, so I have always done tick checks and showers after being outdoors, but once the tick is attached, it can take as little as 3 minutes for the tick to transfer the bacteria to a person if they had fed incompletely and are looking for a second meal. And that doesn't take into consideration things like mosquitoes.

I now use a preventative as well as continuing to treat my yard a couple times a year and to keep it cut short, as well as wearing permethrin treated clothes when I do venture into the woods/tall grass.