@chyna I’ve mentioned it before, but I’m not sure you were on any of those Q’s, my kidney function went below normal when I started a blood pressure medicine. It’s never been below normal, and it’s tested quite regularly. I stopped the medicine, and retested a month later and the number got better, but still below normal. The 3rd test went just barely up into the normal range, and then I tested again a few months later and it was holding at the barely normal. This barely normal number is lower than my historical number previous to all of this starting, and I have been tested quite regularly for 15 years, so I have the numbers. I think the medicine did some permanent damage.
I want to see if maybe I can do something with my diet without it screwing up what I’m trying to do for my high cholesterol.
Some people dismiss my concern saying “well you’re in normal range now” but it’s by two points, and not my normal. They ask me if I was dehydrated, the same as always I drink plenty of water before a blood test.
I just did another blood test this week, I don’t have that result yet. Hopefully, the number is better. I did start back on Zetia (cholesterol medicine) to see if that has any negative kidney effect. My doctors won’t check my liver enzymes, which I think is incompetent. If the blood order was handwritten I would have changed the order myself. Maybe I can get a test without a doctor’s order, I didn’t think to check that until I wrote this now. For some reason my GP wrote only a BMP, and the office wouldn’t just change the order when I asked a few weeks later. My doctor was out in maternity. The prescribing doctor, my cardiologist, won’t give me any blood test orders period. I was talking to someone the other day, and when I mentioned my cardiologist won’t give me a blood test order he guessed my cardiologists name. He knew who it was. He’s retired from the medical field.
I plan on seeing my doctors who I really liked in Memphis in the next few months. I’m so frustrated. The only reason I knew I had the kidney problem was because I asked for a CMP and some other tests when I started the Zetia, and the prescribing doctor wouldn’t even order it. I had to go to my GP and ask for it, and luckily she obliged, but I’m 90% sure it was the BP meds, because I timed when I tested and was able to repeat the test out of squirreling away lab orders. I ask for orders every time I go to the doctor whether I’m going to do them right away or not. Thank God I did.
The doctor didn’t even call me when the low number first cane back. The office said they didn’t have a record it’s of my results. Then I emailed it and the doctor never called me, then I printed it out and hand delivered it, asking for a repeat test. No call. Then I went back in person and demanded a test and accused them of being incompetent and negligent, and they finally wrote the order. That was the second test that was still below normal, but better. The office called me to say my kidney function was low and to stop taking my medicine. I already had stopped. Thank goodness I don’t always listen to nurses and doctors, but one day it will likely kill me. So far it has saved me from harm most times. I know I should get a new doctor, but really it’s so frustrating. Sorry to vent.
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