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Kidney Disease Cure: What's the latest?
I read An article a few years back saying...A university in California has produced a compound that stops Kidney progression in its Tracks...What Ever Happened to that..? Did some big Pharmacal Company buy it and put it on the shelf for Money...
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Hi. What kind of medication can you take so that your creatinine level can go down and you can try to stay off dialysis.
The biggest thing is to STOP eating animal protein. Get your protein from beans and tofu. People don't like to hear it, but processed foods are killing us. Food is our best medicine. No soda, alcohol, or smoking. Exercise and eat to live, don't live to eat.
Spot on. Particularly Red meats . Have to avoid . Eggs are ok
I would not eat eggs if someone paid me. But hard to avoid in Standard American Diet.
wouldn't it be nice if our nephrologists were forced to read our comments. maybe it would inspire someone to do something. i still feel the answer exists somewhere in the cyber world. the kidney is a machine so it seems to me, a machine of some sort should be able to fix it.
watch and wait really isn't a very creative answer. that's what those of us with CKD are being told to do. cynical and hopeful at same time.
Totally agree. Most nephrologist seem to just monitor labs but in more than 30 years of CKD the most anyone said was watch sodium. For two years I have removed all animal protein except a weekly fish and every doctor except the kidney dr. Supports me. I am still at stage 4 but ‘holding’ there. I do not accept dialysis as inevitable!
hope dialysis is not inevitable. i bounce all over the place but started at low level. my primary care, when i lived in another state, didn't even suggest a nephrologist. when we moved, my rheumatologist sent me to one immediately. so i can't understand the medical attitude toward early ckd. that's the time to catch it and perhaps send patient to
dietician. doesn't seem to be happening. at least not to me. i don't understand. even now at stage 3, i determine what i eat. i have to read a lot. also, docs don't pay attention to drugs prescribed. with each new med goes a call to nephrologist to find if the drug is safe. often, he doesn't approve. really, the medical community remains a challenge to me. good luck and keep your eye on the prize so to speak.