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I am looking for answers. I was experiencing excessive urination. Measured 1800 mils overnight. I made an appt with PCP who told me it was diabetes, fasting 140 and 2 hours after meal 149 (different days). I went to an urgent care clinic and the doctor sent me to ER. ER said I had kidney failure GFR 80-90 down to GFR 21 in less than two months. Urologist said I had vesicoureteral reflux. My bladder was not emptying and backing up into kidneys. Utrasound showed bladder was emptying and CT full. The Urologist is proposing a Transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) and not the preferred Surgery for vesicoureteral reflux that repairs the defect in the valve between the bladder and each affected ureter. A defect in the valve keeps it from closing and preventing urine from flowing backward. (TURP) is the surgical removal of part of the prostate gland. It is one option available to relieve the symptoms of an enlarged prostate or other benign (non-cancerous) prostate disease. I do have BPH but not symptoms such, problems with starting urination, reduced urine flow frequent urination, particularly at night
urgency and possible urgency incontinence (when you lose control of your bladder)
passing drops of urine involuntarily after you think you've finished
blood in the urine.

Common side effects after surgery include bleeding after the operation, retrograde ejaculation, urinary symptoms do not change, erectile dysfunction, urethral strictures and
urinary incontinence. Lastly TURP does nothing defect in the valve between the bladder and each affected ureter. A defect in the valve keeps it from closing and preventing urine from flowing backward into the Kidneys

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I hope you get some answers. What are you inclined to do? I wish you all the best. That must have been a terrible shock.

Does anyone know if having a colonoscopy several days before eGFR test can impact the result? I had a two day prep that was not like the first one and it was brutal. I did consume a lot of fluids. I felt my body was out of sorts and dehydrated from all the fluid I lost. The results were normal, but down a little from a year ago. September of last year I was 97. Since then I’ve lost a lot of weight, added exercise, eat a very nutritious diet, and gotten my vitamin deficiency treated. I was not expecting a decline. My doctor said normal, no problem, but…. I’m returning in 3 months to recheck.

@robtemery Welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect. Have you been able to get a referral to a nephrologist, to look into why your eGFR took a nosedive? Has it been rechecked recently, at all? In my experience with different maladies, you can have something going on without there being many [or any!] symptoms.

Personally, I would be hesitant to step into any surgery without having confidence in what the doctor is saying, and being sure they diagnosis is accurate.
Ginger