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What can cause liver enzymes to elevate?

I am 22 years old, in decent shape, and I don't drink alcohol. For the past 3 weeks I have been itching like crazy day and night. I have no rashes or raised bumps but its getting to the point where I am scratching so hard that I am breaking the skin. I went to the doctors and she prescribed me a bunch of allergy medicine and lotions to try and see if thats what it was, as well as having blood work taken. She called me and told me that everything was normal except for my liver and that it was reading very high. All she told me was that she was concerned and to come back in a month to have blood work taken again to see if the results changed. So now I am freaking out as to why I'm itching and why my results are what they are. None of the allergy medicines are working so I know its not that.My doctor sounded worried but didn't tell me too much. I have been tested for Hepititus and that was negative, so what else could it be? What would elevate the liver enzymes? Should I be worried?

Update:

I do not smoke and I had the Mirena IUD put in at the end of March 2010. I do not take ANY other medicines.

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  • 1 decade ago
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    This is a very important question. Are you on Contraceptives? If so, I would Run to my gynecologist and have a liver profile done and explain what is going on. I do not want to tell you what happened to me, as it is a warning on all birth control pills, "a serious but rare condition" but let me just say that your Liver controls your hormones and if you are on contraceptives, they could cause issues. If you smoke too, that adds to the danger. I also pulled up the website Mayoclinic and was surprised to see that it did not state anything regarding hormones, please at least check this out as well. Go to your Gyn asap, for me, please. Do not worry, just get all the information you need and then go from there. I wish you well.

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