da_6671d ago

well.. The news isn't the best I could have hoped for, but its not the absolute worse.

So... the doc says, I've progressed to stage 4 CKD, according to the last lab results. Which, is fucking crazy, considering I was stage 3 a month ago.

However, there is something of a silver lining. Doc says I have acute kidney injury and that can be really messing up the numbers.

She was also really concerned with how low my blood pressure was. Which I've been concerned about for some time now. I've been between 70-90 over 50-60.

I feel like this has been the root of my micro-blackouts and dizzyness spells when I stand up because my body is struggling to deliver blood.

Struggling to deliver blood is also a root cause for acute kidney injury. So... There is some hope that if I can get my blood pressure back up into a normal range (like, 130/80) that my results could improve, and I might be able to regress back to stage 3.

Show threadA wizard did it  ðŸ‡¨ðŸ‡¦1d ago

@da_667 I feel like this has been the root of my micro-blackouts and dizzyness spells when I stand up because my body is struggling to deliver blood.

Hmm...I should probably check my blood pressure.

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@Mustardfacial get a home monitoring kit, if you can. They're relatively cheap. I'm not sure what your age is, and what your target heart rate should be, but they told me I should be at 130/80. so, if you have bouts of disorientation when you stand, or micro-blackouts you need a second or two to recover from,

work on getting it handled as soon as you can, because it could be a sign of a lack of blood flow, and if it gets bad enough, that can lead to organ failure.

Mar 31 at 3:55pmWeb
Show threadA wizard did it  ðŸ‡¨ðŸ‡¦1d ago

@da_667 I don't really talk about it but I've got my own set of medical issues that so far no doctor has been able to figure out yet. Multiple blood tests, CT scans, and MRI's show that every organ in my body is fine and at this point I'm just taking note of any little weird thing that happens to me in the hope that I can collect enough evidence to point to some kind of diagnosis. I do occasionally get light-headed when I stand up and was attributing it to something else but now that you mention blood pressure I will definitely check that out.

Thank you for the insight and I hope your health gets better.