feelbad

so,he is assuming this is just from your diabetes or have you actually had any other testing such as an ultrasound or CT to just get that more in depth look at your kidneys? every six months is when i usually have my labs done on my kidneys and my liver,i have PKD which affects both organs. i also obtain an ultrasound on the kidneys and liver just to check on cystic formations and to also check the bloodflow thru all the right structures(they use the doppler for this) to make certain things are just flowing as they should be. how has your creatinine been?

no matter when they test my urine,i always always have protien and also blood in mine. my cysts break from time to time and bleed some so its kind of always there. have you been diagnosed with some specific type of kidney condition or disease? if you have never actually had an ultrasound done since the protien started showing up,you really need to just to see what is going on. trust me when i say,you cannot just rely upon labs only in order to really see how the kidneys are. my labs have been within all the norms but my ultrasounds look like hell and show kidneys that are very highly cystic and also over four times their normal size. this is just what PKD(my condition) does to kidneys and in my case also the liver. you just need that little looksee in order to really know overall just how the kidneys are. you may have already had at least an ultrasound done but just did not mention it,but if you haven't,you really do just need that done.

that US just really gives the best look and overall picture of kidney function,combined with the labs of course. Marcia