Does anyone have any tips to raise GFR? I’m 55 and have been stage 3b for some years however I was extremely alarmed to get test results last week showing that I’d gone from GFR of 32 to 27!
Quick call to doc and my kidney function was rechecked and thankfully it is now back to 31. I am worried about it though and I wondered if anyone had been able to improve their level?
I am 78 and on a diet specified by my Doctor. It has improved my eGFR. I am restricted on sodium, potassium, and phosphorus, which was based on results of bloodwork. . Check with your Doctor for a diet appropriate for you to slow down the progression of CKD.
Will do that, thank you
I also track my diet on Davita using "diet helper".
Yes, absolutely stick to the renal diet as orangecity wrote. Avoid any NSAIDS. Water and exercise.
Get this pdf book. It has everything on it. It's been a blessing. It's like $60 dollars but it oes over diet, supplements and lifestyle for us with stage 2-4 kidney failure.
Mine was 57 and my Dr told me to increase my fluid intake. After 2 weeks it went up to 87
I’m now 74 my last three and half year results have been
2016. June 31
2017. June 26shock!
July. 28
Sept. 31
Dec. 29
2018 Feb. 27
App. 29
June. 31
Dec. 30
2019. June. 29
July. 30
Dec. 29
Has you can see I had a big shock similar to yours in June 2017
Since then I took my own action which included
Fruit stopped eating bananas and oranges.
Started eating blueberries,apples and cranberries
Meat. Reduced eating all forms of meat to once a week with reduced
Portions
Fish. Increased amounts of fish and had some vegetarian food
Other. Stopped eating deli products such has ham and other processed
Meat.
Stopped eating sausages and bacon.
Slightly increased water intake
I did suffer one low reading of 27 my doctor reckons this was due to my clearing barrow loads of snow and walking into a gale force wind to get shopping the day before my test this would have increased creatinine levels.
Tip don’t over exercise!
Reduced exercise to steady walking of about a mile a day.
I reduced my weight from 80 kilos to 73 I am now in the correct bmi.
This did at least enable me to recover somewhat and I am now reasonably steady being 3 % better now than I was two and a half years ago.
My blood pressure is now very steady and the average for the last year has been 123 over 75.
We have to accept that our kidneys will naturally decline but we have bring that decline to a minimum.
My decline is now running at about point six of one per cent which means at 85 my gfr will be about 23 low but I should still not be suffering any ill effects.
Well that’s now I look at it of course we can live forever but I intend to carry on for sometime yet
Hope this helps
Stable GFR
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Gfr 53
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