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Is this age-related decline in GFR or kidney disease?
My gp says I do not have ckd. I am 73, no diabetes, no blood pressure issues. My gfr is 52 and my creatinine is 1.1. I am not overweight. He says it is due to age and we will retest in 3 monlths. I am really scared witless. His physicians assistant told me i have ckd.
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Hi,
Yes I fully understand the consequences of what I'm doing, but as Dysautonomia is progressive it really doesn't matter at what speed the progression happens. It continues unabated regardless of what the experts have tried.
My insulin pens and test strips are fully funded and do the job just fine under normal circumstances, but I'm way past normal.
The Dysautonomia is slowing my digestion to the point where I struggle to get enough food and fluid in daily. It interferes with my bowels, bladder and causes problems with the throat. It is the nerves associated with these actions that are corrupted. That corruption is not treatable or curable. The nerves are the connection between the brain and the muscles which are normally instructed to do the work, yet don't do the work very well for me. I/we cannot replace the nerves therefore cannot correct the problem. No amount of intervention will change that. My other health issues come a distant second to this. My only options are; slow the progression or let nature take it's course.
Last resort, I have opted to let nature take it's course, unaided.
Thanks for the concern.
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If your GP and his assistant tell you contradictory things, if I were you I would go to a different doc! You might simply be dehydrated when you had the blood / urine test but it is worth retesting. I have my eGFR tested every 3 months (I buy the test from Quest or LabCorp online).
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Possible you may be correct, but as long as a question is asked of me here this is where it should be answered. Yes I know it goes off topic, I'm acutely aware of that, but it is out of my control and has snowballed.
Do I rudely ignore the questions, answer with a complete response or point out that questions here off topic are frowned on?
I await instruction.
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@cheyne I can certainly understand wanting to answer a question posed to you. However, when the ensuing responses run astray of the main topic of the discussion and there is another [existing] exchange going on, you can always move your replies over there.
As I mentioned before, there are members following the diabetes support group who may have valuable words to share. They won't be looking for entries in the kidney and bladder group.
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The concerns about @cheyne do not seem to pertain to diabetes, and seemed dire enough to respond to here. In my experience threads do tend to wander from the original post. I will refrain from further discussion on this off topic issue.