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What are things I can do to live well with 3b kidney disease?
Kidney & Bladder | Last Active: Jun 4, 2022 | Replies (32)Comment receiving replies
As I was reading your first paragraph I was thinking, "I wonder if she meant 'Failure to Thrive' ". What a terrible term to call a disease "Waste of Life". I think your point about the good old fashioned docs is well taken; my primary care is, in general, a rockstar. He did not, however, mention that my kidney function had been in decline until he was "alerted" when my laboratory flagged my GFR at 59. It fluctuates from 53-64 ish but had that one point (from 60 to 59) not occurred, I would not have known about my declining kidney function. I believe whole heartedly that this has to change. Declining kidney function needs to flagged and addressed far earlier. This is a fight I wish I had the energy to pursue.
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Sadly you are completely correct about addressing declining kidney function as soon as your blood test shows it. In another post from me I said the same thing. I had CKD3 for some time and I only found about it on my after visit summary. I was shocked. I loved my GP (she has since left the practice for taking too long with patients). Really??? Anyway, I think the first blood test showing it was in 2018. So for about possibly a year or more I didn't know I had it. If I had I would have been changing my diet so much more. I do think that lowering my salt intake so much that my blood pressure has been wonderful and that's a big help re kidney issues. Actually 59 to 64 is very good and I hope you can keep it at those levels. Thank you for sharing and I do agree with you as to "Waste of Life". Such a scary name.
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I started my research in 1860, that’s 162 years ago. Many of the diseases back then still exist today except with a new name. You were probably vaccinated for many of them as a child entering school age. One of the diseases is even mentioned in the Bible and still exist today. Ever hear of Leprosy, a disease that deformed people and was very contagious. You can get it today by handling an Armadillo infected with it. In poor countries, especially Africa, people infected with it go untreated many times. I just read a story here in the United States where a baby died from Failure to Thrive. Most times hospital will test babies for the condition and can treat them. This baby that died was born at home and I guess was never tested. It usually kills by the age of 6 months, the age I was saved by my medicine man/Shaman and my mother because she had lost another baby the year before.