i am assuming here that you are referring to the alkaline phosphatase? this particular lab can have two totally seperate reasons to become elevated unlike other specific tests within doing the regular hepatic panel can? one IS related to the liver and the other isd related to 'bone" in certain ways too? if you have ANYTHING impacting bone or suffered a recent fracture, that alp can be somewhat elevated?
but i too am wondering if they DID your ALP, did they also run the othert lab functions as well? what the above poster mentioned really ARE the more crucial ones and the ones i look at for first on my regular liver labs and my sons too sincwe he has a liver tx and i have a liver disease and a kidney disease, so these just are done ALOT for monitoring purposes. but there CAN be other reasons for an elevated alp too just so you know. but as a precaution, if that full hepatic panel was NOT actually run on you, it seriously needs to be now just to see where those numbers are at?
one other thing here? as far as whether or not your ALP is actually out of range at all really DOES depend much more than one would think on the actual lab that did the testing? some labs simply arrive at 'their' own ratios/values in a very different way/process so the 'normal values" can be off from what another lab would show in certain ways? also, you do live in another country which can also show big differences depending upon how they simply process labwork too where you live? there just ARE some different ways to figure out a persons actual organ functions using labs and the "way" that particular lab decides to actually 'process" them.
the very best way to actually know when it comes to any actual labwork that is done on you would be to either ask the doc who ordered your tests, which should be discussed after anyways esp if ANYTHING was found to be not within the norm range, or simply do what i have been doing since all my sons crap hit the fan? obtain your very OWN copies of each and every lab sheet that gets done and any and all scan reports too just for your own files? but the lab sheets themselves will usually have the name of the lab listed first, then YOUR ratios next to it, then further out more in the middle it would show either nothing(normal) or an H or L depending upon if the numbers were totally normal, higher or lower than they should be? then wayy over to usually the R hand side, the real actual expected values/ratios would also be there, not usually FOR the patient, but to make it much easier for the doc to simply know and not have to bother to look things up? esp when there is a need to know asap type situation? with one quick glance, they would know what anyones given labs simply are and where they should be all based on info ON that one lab sheet?
i always obtain all labs to simply keep and to use as comparritives to other labs we have done down the road too? this does allow us to actually see any real actual labs that may be slowly creeping up but not actually out of range yet? any changes simply indicate that THAT particular function tested IS being impacted in some way shape or form, if it goes up or down from where it started at when/if it was 'normal'? ya know what i mean? there just IS alot of good solid info you can gain from gettting the labs done and then using them to compare to others later too.
but also simply looking at the way you listed your glucose numbers is very very different from how they would be listed here in the US? so that NEED for the actual lab sheet really IS crucial for you to get YOUR levels of 'normal"?
but either speak with your doc or DO also obtain your own lab sheets for this test and any others you may have from here too. it really can be very helpful. FB
