Is it possible to decrease the size of your liver?

A combination of years of prescription Ibuprofen taken every day and a great fondness for beer has resulted in an enlarged liver. Is it possible to decrease the liver size by losing weight? I am also overweight. No surprise... I just wonder if I lose weight, will my liver also get smaller?

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If your liver is enlarged due to alcohol abuse, medications, and a fatty liver added on due to a poor diet, then you are headed for trouble. You have to stop all the things that is bothering your liver before there will be any improvement. The liver becomes enlarged at first when it has all this inflammation going on from the alcohol, poor diet, and meds. The spleen will also enlarge. As time goes on and nothing changes, then scar tissue will replace healthy tissue in the liver which is called cirrhosis. This is permanent liver damage that never goes away and never gets better and can eventually cause death. If you stop doing whatever is bothering your liver before it reaches the point of being cirrhosis, then your liver will most likely return to being health again. But once it has cirrhosis, there is no turning back. Just stopping one of the problems like losing weight is most likely not going to do much of anything alone if you are abusing alcohol and taking meds that can harm it. Your liver is not enlarged due to weight gain except maybe for a fatty liver from diet, but you have other things bothering it too which must be addressed.

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• Your liver is not influenced by a weight loss overall. It will shrink, if it hasn't yet, to form scar tissue. That is called cirrhosis.
• You need to be with a gastroenterologist now.When the liver cells become damaged, the immune systemof the body will respond to this damage and cause the liverto develop inflammation inside of it. This inflammation causes the liver to enlarge in size and take on a spongytexture.The only way then, to reverse this is to stop the causes:whether it be alcohol consumption, medication toxification,chemical exposure, fatty liver disease and other causesthat can be stopped: as there are many causes thatcannot be. The inflammation must also be treated inorder to reduce it down, so more damage is not done.What you have now is known as Hepatitis. If it is causedby fat build up in the liver...it is known as Steatohepatitis. If the cause is not stopped, or cannot be stopped, it willlead to where the liver cells die off and form scar tissueinside the liver. The scar tissue will start to reconstructthe liver inside and may start to block the flow of blood through the liver and to the liver cells. Thisthen becomes the progresssive disease of Cirrhosisof the liver, which is not reversible. The only curethen is to have a liver transplant. You need to find out the real cause and then yourdoctor will inform you what they are able to do to helpyou reverse it, if it hasn't advanced too far.I hope this information has been of some help to you.Best wishes