@jlferro1 thank you for sharing. I want to learn as much about this topic as possible. My brother actually didn’t know he had any issues with his kidneys until he went for a routine check up and they found the high protein levels and blood in his urine. He was treated for a UTI infection and the blood resolved but the protein didn’t. The only complaint he had was severe pain in his groin and he was thinking he had injured himself. Don’t know if this had anything to do with what’s happening with his kidneys but this was his only complaint. After further research and talking to my brother he said if he was correct IgA Nephropathy is what the doctors told him he has. And this fits with everything I’ve read. European descent. Hereditary- our great grandfather ( in the late 1800’s or early 1900’s ) died with what they called kidney disease that’s all we know. He was exposed to dangerous solvents for YEARS at his job. Now I don’t know if any of these things have anything to do with his condition but it’s what I’ve read during my investigations.