My cat exchanged her kidney problems for liver weirdness

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About a year ago, my cat was diagnosed with early stage kidney failure. Slightly high creatinine, normal BUN. She was tested last Feb, Apr, and Nov with the same results. In Nov she stopped eating and I switched vets and food and gave her steroids (the saga is here: http://www.thecatsite.com/t/310152/gut-issues-deciding-whether-to-give-my-cat-steroids-prednisolone). All has been going well since January, and the vet said I could taper her off the prednisolone if she was doing well. The last dose of pred was 2/19, and I took her to the vet for a follow up blood test yesterday.

Can anyone tell me if this makes sense? She's not showing any out of the ordinary symptoms. Not eating as ravenously, but I just took her off steroids and she's still eating a sufficient amount (not losing weight). She meatloafs regularly, but has this whole time (tried antinausea drugs, omeprazole, i can't remember what else right now). Now she's off all medication, but I am giving her slippery elm bark when I give her food and she meatloafs instead of eating, usually she'll go eat after that (because it's helping or because she wants the taste out of her mouth I don't know....).

Does it make sense for her kidney issue to have disappeared??? Could the prednisolone/omeprazole have helped it? Could it have caused liver problems? I was also giving her B vitamins intermittently.

Should I be worried about these liver numbers?

Results:
kidney - creatinine 1.6 (normal < 1.9, I think her previous tests were around 2.1-2.2), BUN 32 (normal 16-38), SMDA (?! this is new...) 12 (norm 0-14), phos 1.1
liver, bold is out of normal range
Bilirubin   
    0.2
    < 0.4 normal range
    mg/dl

ALT (GPT)   
    202
     < 175 normal range
     U/l

    
Alk. Phosphatase   
    50
     < 73 normal range
    U/l
    
y-GT   
    <1
    < 5 normal range
    U/l
    
AST (GOT)   
    81
    < 71 normal range
    U/l

    
GLDH   
    8
    < 11 normal range
    U/l
    
Gesamteiweiß   (total protein?)
    7.2
    5.9 - 8.7 normal range
    g/dl
    
Albumin im Serum (Serum albumin?)   
    3.7
    2.7 - 4.4 normal range
    g/dl
    
Globulin   
    3.5
    2.9 - 5.4 normal range
    g/dl

   
Albumin-Globulin-Quotient   
    1.07
    > 0.57 normal range
   

And other abnormal results:

Thrombozyten   135   150 - 550 G/l (this was normal on previous tests)

Eosinophile Granulozyten   7   0 - 6% (this is actually much better than it was before, it was over 10, maybe over 20 before)
 
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I forgot to mention she's in a great mood! Lots of energy, stalks me and attacks me from the couch as I walk by, bats stuff across the floor, etc. This is a major change from when she was having issues in November (and even the time period leading up to it).

She does seem to be showing FHS like symptoms more than normal. Back skin twitching, making that deep throated meow more often (you know, the one cats use to talk to ghosts). Maybe related?
 
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I got a chance to talk to the vet today and I'm puzzled. She said the liver values are probably fine even though they're out of range, but that we need to be watching her thyroid. It went from 1.8 to 2.4 (normal range 0.8 - 4.7) in three months. But it's still solidly in the normal range....  She also said the liver thing might be from the prednisolone but there's no way of telling now if it was higher when she was on it and already dropping. So I guess nothing's to be done but wait a few months and test again, as long as she doesn't start vomiting/stop eating again.
 
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