Hi, @christinelouise It's nice to welcome another post-liver-transplant patient. When was your transplant? If it was recent, and if you are on a high dose of prednisone, that is probably causing the weight gain. My transplant was in September 2016, at Mass General Hospital. I was on a higher dose of prednisone early after my transplant but I am now on a very low dose and I cannot blame my struggle with weight on that. I intentionally lost a lot of weight prior to transplant so I am trying to keep my weight down now.

Other than weight gain, how are you feeling? I hope well. It was such a wonderful feeling for the pre-transplant struggles to be history. I was on the dreaded lactulose for HE prior to transplant and hated it. When I was still in the hospital and had some pain my husband would console me with proclaiming "NO MORE LACTULOSE"! I was pretty fortunate through most of my pre-transplant days and other than HE episodes I felt well most of the time. The last six weeks were pretty horrible though so it was a tremendous relief to get that call.
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@christinelouise, How long ago did you (or a loved one) receive a transplant? Are you concerned about gaining or losing weight?