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Thank you Peter for taking the trouble to answer.This is all so new to me. Keep well Phil

Hi Arthur Thanks for replying just read your journey.Hope you are keeping well.May I ask did your kidneys recover so that they don't cause you any problems? I realise some stuff you may not want to share but may I also ask what did your kidney function go down to and what is it now.keep well and thanks Phil

There are some amazingly well informed folk on this forum .I am finding a wealth of information from you all. Just finished 10 of 20 of radiotherapy. Stiff feel ok, bit anxious have a few panic attacks but ok all keep well regards Phil

With Kidney function you may be able to improve it a bi or even quite a lot, the main thing is to keep your blood pressure under control as this is one of the main causes of kidney failure .There is a facebook page Kidney care uk that is really good well worth a read.

regards Barbara.

This is normal kidney function.

The two main things to check in kidney failure are the Creatinine level and the eGFR.

The kidneys filter Creatinine out of the blood, and when they aren't working correctly, the level of Creatinine in the blood raises. The top acceptable limit has been reduced and I think it's now 106mmol/L, but you are still within that. Ideally, you should avoid exercise and eating meat for at least 24h before the blood test, because these both raise the Creatinine generation above normal levels. Creatinine is the result of breaking down muscle, either because you are digesting it, or because you are breaking down your own muscles (which is normal). Doing exercise strenuous enough to build muscle (which is initially triggered by damaging the muscle which needs building up and the damaged muscle is broken down to enable new muscle to be grown) will give a high reading. Even without exercise, there's a normal turnover of muscle cells, which generates the normal levels of Creatinine found in everyone.

eGFR is the estimated Glomerular Filtration rate, which is calculated from your Creatinine level, age, sex, race. This is used to work out the level of CKD (Chronic Kidney Disease). CKD1 is > 120 and means normal kidney function. CKD2 is > 60, which is slightly reduced kidney function, but not concerning. CKD1 and CKD2 are never distinguished here as renal function tests never report better than > 60 (you will never see > 120). As you drop below 60, you fall into CKD stage 3 (which is spilt into 3a if > 45 and 3b if < 45, and often causes no symptoms), and then stage 4 if < 30 which is heading for end-stage kidney failure, and stage 5 at < 15 which is dialysis required. eGFR also maps to percentage, but I don't know the mapping off-hand, but high CKD stages are lower percentages.

KCD can get better - it depends why it got bad and for how long.

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