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Age 82 and eGFR of 9 - options?
Kidney & Bladder | Last Active: Jun 12 7:18pm | Replies (32)Comment receiving replies
Totally agree on fighting for dialysis if that is what your mother wants.
My mother's eGFR was 17. Hospital IV hydration brought it up to 25 as I remember. I took her out of a behavioral unit where they didn't seem to care about the eGFR and just left a small cup of water on her bedside. I transferred her to a medical unit and asked for IV hydration.
What is your mother's eGFR is given sufficient hydration? Just curious. (I am dealing with kidney disease myself..) My creatinine based eGFR jumps all around but Cystatin C is steady. A change of two points in creatinine based e GFR would not be significant, right?
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We were not offered IV hydration. Didn’t realize that would make a significant change? Sorry, so new to this. For the past year we’ve been told let’s monitor her count until March 2024 and it dropped below 16 to 13 then 12 then 11 now at 9. It was very difficult getting an appt with a kidney specialist.