I am ten years older than you, and just had a similar shock. My healthy lifestyle and eating choices, and being a vegetarian, left me shocked with the diagnosis. Mine is attributed to a 6 year span of taking Bactrim - which kept me alive. No one suggested a kidney scan. I am terrified. I am interested in any comments from people who have been able to lower their GFRs. Mine is 51, not too bad, but I don't want a life of progressive kidney failure and all it entails, especially for my family. The only hope I see is diet.

So far, I have had to fight the entire way. The original kidney specialist I saw did not even bother to mention diet. SO I have become more aggressive than is my nature.

I read all the advice on here from those of you who have raised their GFRs.