Nephrologist appointment yesterday

[Sdtagoo]

I just saw my nephrologist yesterday and he took me off my fluid pill because my blood pressure was too low. He will check again in a month to follow u on it. He left me on my Lisinopril 10mgs because it protects my kidneys long term. My egfr is 35 and creatinine is 1.58. He feels the fluid pill was also causing the extreme fatigue I've been having as it was lowering my blood pressure too much. Since I quit my high stress job and got another one part-time that I love, my blood pressure has been low. Stress plays a huge part in high blood pressure and if it becomes so extreme it affects your health (particularly with kidney disease), it's time to evaluate your priorities. I asked my nephrologist what level I would have to be at to have to start dialysis and he said eGFR of 10.

[Sally10255]

Hi, sounds like things are going well for you. It sounds like you were on 2 things that was lowering blood pressure? I have lower pressure too, did while growing up. I have one great kidney and another thst has been badly damaged. I could have been born that way, something causing damage, or the 6mm stone that I had, that most likely was in there awhile. It is important for my blood pressure to stay low, so there is not more damage. Also higher pressure for me could mean the bad kidney is compromising the good one. Great luck!!!