What are the symptoms of primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC)?

Most people with primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC)are diagnosed before symptoms begin. The most common symptoms people with this condition experience are:

A general feeling of tiredness, or fatigue.Pruritus-itchy skin-and darkened skin in itchy areas due to scratching.

Other symptoms may develop are as follows:

Dry eyes and mouth.Jaundice-darkening of the urine and yellowing of the skin and whites of the eyes-which occurs when the diseased liver does not remove enough bilirubin from the blood. Bilirubin is the pigment that gives bile its reddish-yellow color.

This answer is based on source information from The National Digestive Disease Information Clearinghouse (NDDIC).