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Stage 3 chronic kidney disease (CKD): What specialists do I see?
Kidney & Bladder | Last Active: May 19, 2022 | Replies (237)Comment receiving replies
@rozalia, would you tell us a little about your medical issue? I'm a stage-3 CKD myself under careful watch by my primary care physician AND my nephrologist, as well as my urologist. What caused you to consider asking for a kidney specialist (nephrologist)? Was it a low filtering percentage as calculated from your lab test? Was it high blood pressure for which nephrologists are a good referral? Were you experiencing palpable symptoms from CKD? Might the expense of a referral have been a factor in your primary's advice?
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My diagnosi was directly relayed to blood work results and anomalies, other than that I have no symptoms
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Right now my cardiologist has been managing my BP meds. It took a lot of tuning to get the results he wanted which is a systolic below 130. My primary would prefer a higher reading because he worries about the times it has gotten as low as 90/50. So I am not sure what is the best. I have had no symptoms of CKD which by the way my brother also had..I have excellent health insurance.