Diagnosed yesterday

Hi, being diagnosed with anything can be scary, the term chronic is an unfortunate one as it sounds worse than it can be. I can only speak from personal experience, I was diagnosed stage 3 15/16 years ago and have remained stable ever since with medication. It doesn't affect my lifestyle at all. I don't follow any special diet or see a urologist.

My GP does an annual check up.

I would suggest you refrain from taking any anti-inflammatories unless prescribed as this can affect kidney function. Do a little research but follow your medical practitioners advice before anyone elses. 

Hi Patrick,

Everyone is different. Thank goodness you don't have diabetes or anything else... that's a good thing. I would definitely see a nephrologist. They specialize in kidney function. Do your homework and educate yourself. Diet is the most important thing, you can even change your DNA with the foods that you eat. Try and stay away from alcohol and of course ibuprofen and prilosac. Be careful with any pain medication that you take. Some medications damage your kidneys.

Good news is your stage can be stable or fixable. Don't panic, prayers will go out to you.

Yes when you first hear this news you are afraid and can think of nothing else.  You will read every article and website and hear so much conflicting information.  And it would be easy for any of us here to say do not panic, but it won't reassure you much.  However, once you get the facts (over time) you will feel better.  Your creatinine is only .1 tenth above the normal range and your doctor called it Stage 3 CKD?  How many blood tests produced this result?  Creatinine can fluctuate and to be .1 above norm from one blood test should not be enough to call you CKD.  Having a high blood pressure for one day, or a week, or even a month, is not going to cause CKD.  Especially as you mention you had days of normal pressure.  The next smart thing?  Another blood test to confirm your measurements.  If they show the same, then a visit to a Kidney Doctor or a Urologist.  It is far to easy for a doctor to look at a chart which says since you are .1 above normal (which gives you a GFR of 54) you therefore are having kidney failure.  You need to find out if this is just a one time occurrence.  If more than that, then you need to be scanned to see if there is perhaps a tumor on the kidney and which one, or some other fault that can be found in the Urinary tract.  IF (and it is a big IF) you have a problem, perhaps it is just one kidney that is having a problem an the other is not.   Your doctor just sent you home?  Then I would get another doctor.

Thank you for your response. Rick, doctor did not say stage 3 - I did that based on the levels I read....but he did mention I should come back after 3 months.  Apparently, you need 2 positive results to be officially diagnosed with ckd. However, I had done a blood test for something else 3 years ago and I could see creatinine creeping up.  At that time, I did not know what it was. In Canada, your GP has to refer you to a nephrologist.  That was so unexpected and what ironical is that I booked a trip to Europe and i'm leaving sunday.....hopefully, i'll be in a better state of mind.  Thank you all for taking the time to answer me.  Take care!!

Hey, do not self diagnose.  I am not a doctor but I doubt you have true CKD.  Creatinine will moderate.  Before my kidney was removed (not due to kidney failure but due to cancer) my Creatinine was all over the place.  One month it would be .98.  The next test 1.3.  The next back to 1.1.  You were only .1 above  "normal".  My last test was 1.76 and here I am writing to you. .  Your doctor is doing the right thing.  Waiting for another test.  Even now that I see a kidney doctor she tells me to pay no attention to a bad test result.  That she too tests every 2 or 3 months.  That multiple tests are required to determine if it is  problem or just a normal fluctuation.  Here in the US I too needed a referral to a kidney specialist.  The Urologist removed my kidney but did not referral even though my creatinine was 1.8 and my eGFR was 35.  My primary care 3 months later thought why not see a kidney doctor just to get their review.  I did.  And basically she just does what my primary care doctor was doing, blood tests every 3 months.  Advice to drink fluids, watch protein intake, continue on Lisinopril, all the same thing my primary care was doing.  Just not drinking enough fluids for a day or two before the test could have caused that .1 increase.   Another key test for kidney is the BUN level.  Once I had a test that put way above the normal range, I mean way above.  The doctor has me fast for just 12 hours before the test.  He then thought that was the reason.  So he tested me again on the spot and everything was normal.  One bad test does not make you CKD.  I bet  you will be fine.  We all hope so.