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Stage 3a kidney disease: looking for info
Kidney & Bladder | Last Active: Dec 8 9:35am | Replies (127)Comment receiving replies
Thank you so much for replying back. Your input as another person going through CDK3 is very helpful. I can't thank you enough. Doctors here in the US just give you a template of veggies, fruits and water intake but don't go to details. For example someone here was mentioning soup. It is good to have actual everyday people's menu that they make for breakfast, lunch and dinner, so I can get my mom excited about meals and not demoralize her. She has the renal dietician appointment coming up of course too. I have been as per nephrologists instructions serving her 1 egg in the morning with veggies and a strip of chicken cutlet. Lunch: Chicken cutlet or salmon and broiled string beans and carrots and cucumber. Dinner: yogurt with zucchini. The doctor was trying to have her take Forxiga which works almost like a diuretic to flush out all bad sugar. I am not sure that that will work out because my mom is drinking 6-8 glasses a water a day and using the restroom constantly. That will have her blood sugar drop I am sure too. her blood sugar runs normal now. Did your doctor change you to a different medication or just only took you off Triamentrene?
Thank you so much! You have been extremely helpful.
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I highly recommend keeping a detailed list of your mom's daily eating habits for a week before seeing the renal dietitian. That list was a great help to my dietitian when I last saw her and she was able to tell me exactly what I needed to cut back on and/or drop completely. She was also able to see what I liked to eat and make suggestions for alternatives so I wouldn't feel disappointed to drop certain foods. Water intake is extremely important, as is both getting enough sleep and exercising. I wish you and your mom a productive appointment with the dietitian!
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@charlie1234 Welcome to Mayo Clinic Connect! Yes, having a community here is important, and learning what others do, how they manage everyday sure can help us. We are each different, and what works for one may not be advisable to another. But it helps to see what is out there, doesn't it?!
I just read up on Triamentrene and see it is a potassium-sparing diuretic, which can be a good thing. One thing that may help you look at the diet aspect of kidney disease, is to wander through the existing discussion here in the kidney and bladder support group. A new feature is going to the main page for this group, and type in "diet" in the search box, which will allow you to chooses discussions or comments. This link here is the result of doing that: https://connect.mayoclinic.org/group/kidney-conditions/?search=diet&index=discussions
Diet is critical in managing our kidney disease. For some reason, many doctors downplay the importance of it, but we patients know it is a very real way to advocate for ourselves. And if we have other health concerns, sleeving all of the best ways to eat for our conditions together can be quite the challenge! If your mom is up to cooking and making her meals, make it a way to do the best she can, finding out tasteful pairings.
Do you have any questions for me?
Ginger