Kidney Filtration Rate

[Bazile]

Is a kidney Filtration rate of 59 bad news?

[elliemay1]

No, mine was 59 last year and is now 60. Was told by nurse that it was okay.

[Sqad]

Fine Bazile..........just fine.

[Sqad]

Bazile.....knowing you, you will obviously "trawl" the websites...;-)
Let me give you it quite simply.
There are five stages of kidney disease 1-5, depending upon your Kidney Filtration rate. called CKD (chronic kidney disease )

https://www.kidney.org/atoz/content/gfr




Stage 1......great kidneys
Stage 5.....2.30 at the crematorium.

Get the picture?

You are stage 3a...CKD......no big deal despite what the website says.
Knowing your history, that result would not be a cause for your persistent hypertension. At a guess I would say that 50% of the population over 70 years of age would have a CKD staging of Stage 3. no big deal.

Is that quite clear Bazile?

[Peter Pedant]

no it is par for the course for an over 65

so you dont have a body like Charles Atlas - yeah well none of us have

[Bazile]

Thanks all for responding
Sqad - lol

Given that i suffer from long standing hypertension , the Professor put me down for CT coronory angiogram / 24 hour blood pressure monitor / kidney ultrasound

All were normal

He also started me on Spironolactone and requested that my GP check my kidney function a few weeks after starting . I finished taking the 30 tablets , that was prescribed - i have not taken any more since .

The result of the blood test showed that my GFR at time of test to be 58.
My GP has requested that i have another blood test .

What is a bit concerning is that i had a GFR reading of 73 in December 2017

That seems like a big drop in the space of about 6 months
Would you agree ?

[Bazile]

By the way i'm about 5 months away from being 60 years old

[Bazile]

sorry that should be 59 in about 5 months time

[Sqad]

Yes....I would agree.
You point is well taken.
I would agree with your GP....another test in 3 months.
If you have no ankle swelling, then i would not be concerned about kidney problems.

[Bazile]

thanks sqad

[Patsy33]

Hi Baz. Mine was 50 about 4 years ago. My Doctor said she wasn't worried but I still was advised to have flu injection before I was 60. It was only when I asked her, gp, she told me it was because of medical/ government guide lines.