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Only posting fact... my point is the situation should not be toyed with.

Thanks jack.....it's an exercise in patience that's for sure. Been feeling low for 6 weeks now, and it'll likely be at least a couple/three more before a referral. Appreciate it.

That doesn't sound fun. I'm hoping/betting the CT scan would have caught any cancer, and it came back clean.

I would do whatever it took to change their timeline.

I know of only two cases and neither showed on a CT scan for a long time.

Johnny, I used to before I got both knees replaced. I don't think I'm at an advanced stage like osteoporosis because I have zero pain anywhere associated with it yet.

JG what are last two labs on PTH? Give us (me) the number value.

Most clinicians won’t act unless pth is 10x the upper value.

Mine runs in 600s. I’m on sensipar and calctriol for it. And it’s barely dips below 300. They just give me the shrug. Like no big deal.


I think normal ranges are 40-100


Expect it to be more, obviously if you got any inkling of a compromised renal function. Thoughts I remember, you posted your GFR based on my memory of that thread it wasn’t that bad IMO.

Now you can have good GFR but your kidneys can’t still be miscommunicating the regulation of pth and calcium allocation.


I have a shîtty GFR but I have zero issue with phosphorous and potassium. Most low renal patients, K and Ph are the absolute devil to them.

Post up your lab value. On the PTH.

Rest assured, wishing you all the best.

Doctors, bless their hearts love to make diagnosis on one or two observations. They never were allowed to do that in a freshman level stats class.


You could fluke a lab and or/and or not.

Repeat the labs yet again and consult a nephrologist. They are more in tune with parathyroid issues

I tend to think endocrine docs specialize more in fat chicks and their thyroid and dumpy kids and their pituatary issues more.

Right on Sitka.

GFR 31
PTH was 6........not a misprint.......6.

Dang what’s up with your GFR?

It wasnt that bad before.

That pth has to be a lab error. unless it’s given in 10^power of some coefficient.


Typically with compromised GFR you have very elevated Pth

My GFR is bad bad bad, Stage 4 renal failure and I’m 18-22 depending on labs and hydration, and or if I’m on an antibiotic.

Are you on any antibiotics right now?

You’re stage 3 renal with a GFR like that. You need to go to a nephrologist and start seeing him/her on a regular interval and also an initial diagnosis of what’s going on in the background.

I gotta do something that's for sure. No medicine except for 20mg Lisinopril for marginally high blood pressure.

FWIW
Creatinine 2.21
BUN 31

I am IIRC you GFR was 1.5,6 last thread?

Did you get some good amount of water before that lab

Need about 24 ounces of water to do a BMP panel 2-3 hours before.
Makes veins easier to hit too


But don’t drink a gallon, that will skew.


You need a protein test with a next urinalysis they do too

You need a nephrologist. Plain and simple.

Could be something trivial like a constriction of plaque in the renal artery. Or stenosis Ultrasound those kidneys and check velocities on the vessles feeding those organs

Hoping for the best.


I hope at this point you would swear off any NSAIDS completely. Forget they exist.

Naproxen, ibuprofen, Advil. No more.

You need to freeze whatever is manifesting itself.

Don’t panic, 2.2 creat.


has zero limitations.
Neither much does 4.0

Start dialysis at 6-7 creat or 15 GFR.


Good luck.


PM me I’m glad to help any more if I can.

I’m an Endocrinologist in my spare time. I evaluated all the data, including your most recent posts, and my diagnosis is...



You’re gay.





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Slum, from last discussion:

CREATININE 1.55
EGFR IF NONAFRICN AM 49
CALCIUM 10.2

Why thank you big boy!!!

Embrace it, and stop on by some time.



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Be very cautious of anyone like a cardiologist wants to do ANY type arteriogram with contrast.

That will harm his GFR situation possibly irreversible

If totally unavoidable. Ask for 2 vials of Mucamist orally to lube the contrast and sheiks the nephrons from that awful chit.

Because they *may* want to do an arteriogram exploration on your renal arteries

Just in case.

Jesus Christ..... You really ARE Kingston's sock puppet.