@gladiator14, Thank you for sharing your experience and the heartening news of your kidney function improvements. It is sad but the more I hear from the others, I think your years (and mine) of decreasing kidney function with no caution or intervention from our docs are sadly more the norm than the exception.

Until my ckd stage 3 diagnosis, I'd never questioned a doc nor paid attention to lab results. So much of what I've learned and benefited from these past two yrs since my ckd diagnosis has been through my individual effort to learn and research a path to better kidney health. Like you, the steps I've taken have improved my kidney scores but I wish that more physicians would alert patients to changes that could be addressed much earlier.

Hope you'll let us know what you learn from your doc regarding the large cyst and stones and what you can do for treatment.