Thank you.

Chemical exposures. Not sure about this.

My mother had gum disease and had all her teeth removed when this flared up when she was 3 month's pregnant with me (effects of gen anaesthetic on unborn child??).

I do have mercury fillings (previously 5, now down to only 2 big ones). I'm gradually getting them replaced.

When I was young we ALWAYS had a blocked chimney & I can remember breathing in lots of coal smoke during the winter months.

Late teens, throughout 20s. Suffered badly with nerves/anxiety. Social phobia. Took a variety of medicines - frisium (which didn't work so on one occasion I desperately took a load of them and was laid up for a day or so afterwards. I can remember saying to someone that if I was ever to suffer from liver disease they should remind me of this. However, if the damage started then, what can I now do??), betablockers (propranalol), then Prozac and Seroxat. I also tried OTC herbal remedies but they didn't work (I remember "Calms" and passiflora and valerian in particular - you would need to take a whole jar to have any effect! Gotta be bad news for the liver having to clear all this!

Also teens/20s - problem with alcohol, the only thing to relieve my anxiety. Always wanted to ring more out of every experience and drank to excess. Can I have cleared the effects of this by now, I wonder?

Seem to have spent the whole of my 30s trying to make up for my previous assaults on my health (some of which were made in the best of intentions).

Haven't actually tried a gluten free diet, althought the diet recommended by the Chinese herbalist did come close. I'd give it a whirl as, actually, have just noticed recently that pasta seems to make my liver feel fuller.

Inflammation? As far as I'm aware not of my organs are actually inflamed. They just keep walling off loads of gunk in the form of cysts and, although the kidney tissue may eventually be squeezed out of existence, the liver tissue just moves further and further apart, around the ever-growing cysts. All tests show normal liver function, and, so far, my kidney function is normal too. Any discomfort and soreness seems to be mainly due to the bulk of my organs and not inflammation, as I understand the term.

However, anything which would encourage the safe release of the gunk would be very welcome.

Many thanks