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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
My journey is totally different. I started acupuncture from a real Chinese doctor and PHd graduate from a well known and respected college here in the U.S. In 2 1/2 weeks my GFR went from 39 to 45., the highest in a long time. My next lab draw is at the end of February which should give me a good reading on the future of acupuncture and stage 3B. Rather interesting, this forum hardly talks about acupuncture and its use with kidney disease..
Regarding nutrition, I get my best advice from one of several renal dieticians here at Mayo. She even encourages me to message her whenever I have questions. Even better, she responds quickly.
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Interesting but what also should be considered is the possibility that the acupuncture course of treatment positively affected your blood pressure readings which, if they dropped significantly) may have contributed to an improvement in your GFR. Just a thought.
Where can I get acupuncture from can you send me information on that
Would love to have help of renal dietician at Mayo. How did you hook up with her? Here, no
help when it comes to food. Also, no more acupuncturists. All left town. Think they are very
helpful in assorted areas. In addition, person who says X-Ray equipment is outdated is correct.
All kidneys should have scans, MRI's. Part of the problem with that, though, is people with
kidney disease can't have contrast material. That's why equipment should be the best.
Thanks for your insights.
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@collegeprof Welcome to Mayo Connect. I see you have been a member here for several months and this is your first post. I sure hope you will share with us, your lab draw results from the end of February! It will be interesting to see what they show. Yes, there hasn't been much mention of acupuncture in relation to kidney disease. I did find a article from 2018 that indicates more research is needed, but it certainly sounds promising in your situation. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30286626/
When you are comfortable to share with us, would you tell us about your kidney disease journey, and what led you to try acupuncture?
Ginger