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Hi! I’m a 21 year old F, and I started seeing a nephrologist about six months ago. There’s a lot of kidney problems that run in my family. My grandmother died of kidney disease and my mom is currently in her late 40’s and on dialysis.

I started seeing a nephrologist because of kidney stones. I’ve passed three in the past year. I just did a work up on labs after passing one three months ago, and most of them don’t concern me. I do care, because they’re my kidneys and they’re important. But Ive started to see if a rapid decline in eGFR is normal, and if a high U creatinine may affect it. This nephrologist is very quick to get me in, but has pushed me off for months and told me to drink more. My eGFR is considered normal, I’m just concerned that it’s dropping so fast. I’ve also never had such a high U creatinine. So a lot of unknown on my end.

Really just looking to see if it something worth mentioning to my doctor! Thank you!!

I can’t seem to figure out how to add a photo. But the levels are:

eGFR

April 8- 106
Jul 20-106
Aug 6-91
Aug 11-79

U Creatinine

Mar 2- 203.2
Aug 11-319.3

Reference range for UC is 37-250

I had a decompression open fasciotomy last Monday, in each 4 of the compartments, and I’m not feeling too great about how the recovery is going. I’m a F, 21 years old, and it was just on my left leg, and the first few days of the recovery were okay. I had my leg elevated and iced for more the day so the pain was bearable and I wasn’t having to take my heavy pain meds, and I was also walking down my hallway a little bit and could walk from the couch to the kitchen. Sunday night I noticed that the swelling in my leg was getting worse. Within 2-3 minutes of me standing I could feel the tightening and swelling of everything pooling at the bottom, and the longer I would stand the worse the pressure got. It’s like compartment syndrome feeling but 10x worse because it was just building and building.

I expressed this to my surgeons office who sent me for an ultrasound and a DVT was ruled out, I do have a hematoma, but I was told to take an aspirin once a day and keep the same regimen. I had my post op on Thursday where I was expressing all of my concerns, and I was showing them how swollen my leg was just from walking from the car to the office (on crutches). The PA seemed more focus on my incisions which look great, and he said it’s time for some PT.

Had anyone experienced this after recovery? The pain of the swelling is awful and walking had become unbearable. I did see my PCP today who is referring me to a different specialist and said to keep my leg as elevated as possible this weekend until I can get in. I don’t know, I’m nervous. This has all been an extremely rushed process. I went from seeing an urgent care doctor, to a specialist, to having pressure testing done and surgery all within the same week. I’m scared the surgery wasn’t a success, so I’d love to know what others experiences has been!