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Stage 3 Kidney Disease and Diet: What can I eat?
Kidney & Bladder | Last Active: Mar 17 9:38am | Replies (756)Comment receiving replies
Hi again you guys --Georgia in Australia --IT'S THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT here--Fingers not working on the computer --Meant to say NEPHROLOGIST. YOU KNOW -- THE KIDNEY GUY !!! Learn to read the blood and urine tests. ! Do your own Sieman's 10 dipstick urine test at home in the bathroom. (Cost $60 from the drug store - 6 month supply) It tells you 10 things about your kidneys right there in your own bathroom. You can do it every day if you are a "worry wart". Ask question, and when they don't like it --ask some more !!!!
My friends tell me "I am taking this and that and I feel like this and that ". I say , "What does your blood test tell you?"
WHAT !!! I don't know how to read that. You guys buy a new car and then say I won't bother to learn how to drive it ? You are not really interested if you can't do that one.
Georgia in Australia.
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Hi, @australia, I wake up in the middle of the night, too...usually around 3 am. Luckily I can most often go back to sleep after reading or playing computer games for awhile. As for nephrologist,vs neurologist, smiles, some of us, like me, see both...kidney & neuropathy.
A really good website that helped me learn to understand my kidney labs was http://www.kidneyschool.org. It has really helpful learning modules: Module 7 is on Understanding Kidney Lab Values. I've shared the site with many others diagnosed with ckd and maybe it might be one you and others might share with those with kidney disease but who don't know how to read lab results? If they don't choose to learn, that is another matter entirely.
I agree that asking questions and then more questions and doing individual research has been pivotal in my learning to better manage my health conditions.