NEMW

Hi I'm a 19 yr old male who got himself to the doctor at age 17 feeling symptoms fatigue and feelings of being sick to my stomach every morning. I was diagnosed with a mild protienurea which was the highest at 640mg in 24hr test but thank god no sign of blood. Since then I have been researching this condition pretty throughly on my own. My doctor thinks this condition orginated from a strep infection during childhood, while I think this is true I have discovered some other links that contributed to my condition. Looking back, I always had mild fatigue which was attributed to allergies by my parents and resulted in me taking psuedophedrine on an almost daily basis during middle school. In addition, I began abusing tylenol containg medications and to a lesser extent alcohol for the period of roughly a year before my diagnosis as well as a lifelong low water intake and extremely high level of soft drink consumption(basically replaced all other liquids with pepsi......what was i thinking). immediately after my diagnosis I completly ceased all intake of ANY medication at all, drastically increased my water intake, drastically reduced my alcohol intake, and generally ceased almost all of the negative health things that I was doing to self-medicate the feelings of sickness I had(with the exception of the caffiene intake that I've been trying hard to completly eliminate). Within 6 months all my nausea the vast majority of the fatigue I felt all my life disappeared, I feel better then I ever have my whole life, and have actually had the energy to commit to a rigorous three day a week powerlifting routine for an entire year but the protein in my urine persists at anywhere between 200-500mg almost 2 years later.

Does anyone have any advice for me over additional things I can do or opinions on the outlook of this condition I have?

I find that the occassional day or two of fatigue or colds/flu cause me anxiety/despair over the future outlook of my life........even though I know other people have it significatly worse than I do.