What are the symptoms of cirrhosis?

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What are the symptoms of cirrhosis?

The symptoms of cirrhosis depend on the stage of your disease. In the beginning stages, you may not have any symptoms. If you do have symptoms, some are general and could easily be mistaken for symptoms of many other diseases and illnesses.

Early symptoms and signs of cirrhosis include:

  • Loss of appetite.
  • Feeling weak or tired.
  • Nausea.
  • Fever.
  • Unexpected weight loss.

As liver function gets worse, other more commonly recognized symptoms of cirrhosis appear including:

  • Easy bruising and bleeding.
  • Yellow tint to your skin or the whites of your eyes (jaundice).
  • Itchy skin.
  • Swelling (edema) in your legs, feet and ankles.
  • Fluid buildup in your belly/abdomen (ascites).
  • Brownish or orange color to your urine.
  • Light-colored stools.
  • Confusion, difficulty thinking, memory loss, personality changes.
  • Blood in your stool.
  • Redness in the palms of your hands.
  • Spider-like blood vessels that surround small, red spots on your skin (telangiectasias).
  • In men: loss of sex drive, enlarged breasts (gynecomastia), shrunken testicles.
  • In women: premature menopause (no longer having your menstrual period).

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