Question about edema

Question about edema

Is it possible to have stage 1-2 pitting edema with no other symptoms and it not be advanced/severe liver disease/damage?? Been this way about a week & a half. Not getting worse but not really better. It’s mostly at the top of my legs, below the knees. Right leg slightly worse. My feet and ankles don’t seem to be swollen. Maybe my right foot slightly, but no pitting. I’ve seen my cardiologist and he doesn’t seem to think it’s my heart. I recently had an echo (about a month ago) that came back fine. He just recommended compression socks and to lower my sodium intake. I generally stay under 2000, though, as it is.

I have a doctors appointment with my GP this Wednesday. At the hospital about a month ago my liver enzymes were elevated but my GP didn’t seem concerned at all when I had my follow up. My albumin was also slightly low, by about .5. She also didn’t seem concerned about that. The edema started maybe 2-3 weeks later. I was drinking pretty heavily during those 2-3 weeks. I’ve stopped drinking completely for the last 3 days and have no interest in drinking again. This is scary enough for me to stop. Google/reddit searching has me terrified that the literal only reason for pitting edema is end stage liver disease or something.

Has anyone else experienced this? Did it go away? I saw ONE single post on here that someone said it went away for them after a month of not drinking which is the only thing keeping me from completely freaking out.

I’m just looking to feel better, by asking, I guess.