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rising creatinine levels is this bad?

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Blood results are not my forte.. when on methotrexate my reading was about 54. but on gold 60, 70, now 80 plus is rising think this is ominious?

so can some one who has gold injections. and or has good understanding/ medical knowledge of glood tests results please advise

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Hi Alison

Creatinine levels are acceptable when in the range of 60-120. It is mainly flitered out of the blood by the kidneys so if the filtering mechanism of the kidney is deficient, creatinine blood levels rise and indicate possible kidney problems. I understand that this is rare in injected gold and more common in oral gold (not sure that this is still used for RA).

I don't think, from my experience, that there's anything to be concerned about with your results at the moment; it will possibly level out once the Myocrisin is on a more even keel. You are still within the accepted range, but worth keeping an eye on it and checking with your GP if it continue up to the maximum; although they will probably have it flagged up for attention should this happen. On low dose methotrexate my levels are between 81-100.

Hope that helps,

Lyn :)

thank you lyn-w

I know I am in the range. but is rising 84 last result.. Im concerned about kidney function/damage!

your levels are quite high then lyn?

Alison x

Hi Summer

Thought you might be interested to read this information taken from the National Kidney Federation site

kidney.org.uk/Medical-Info/...

Lorraine

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Interesting information; thanks Lorraine :)

Fantastic Lorraine this is so good especially the calculator function.. Im not up on blood tests this is brillian thank you

Alison x

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