| peter.n 2006-09-05, 4:32 pm |
| REP wrote:
> In article <1157431640.708293.163430@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com>,
> "peter.n" <pn2005@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>
>
> Proteinuria is greater than 1 GRAM per 24 hours. Since you did not
> specify the rate of your proteinuria, I gave information pertinent to
> overt proteinuria.
>
>
> Not true. They are used in nephrotic patients (3 GRAMS or more per 24
> hours or a p:c of 3) as well as those with microalbuminuria, especially
> diabetics.
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>
> You may have been diagnosed two years ago; however, you may have been
> diabetic for as long as a decade beforehand (most type 2s are diabetic
> long before dx). Signs of disabetic nephropathy so soon after dx mean
> either the diabetes was present for at least 10 years prior to dx OR
> that there is another kidney disease at work. If your proteinuria is
> over 3 GRAMS per day, a biopsy may be called for.
>
> I know the day I became diabetic, but I am unusual; I became diabetic
> during a heavy course of steroids for asthma. I became nephrotic a year
> after becoming diabetic, and my biopsy showed that I have primary
> idiopathic FSGS.
>
> --
> "Did Father shoot him? I will eat Grandfather for dinner."
> - Helen Keller, on learning of the death of her grandfather
>
> email: aripee at inanna . com
Your experience makes me wonder about my situation .When I left
Australia for America in January 2003 , my albumin/creatinine was 3.5
mg/mmol ( note , normal is up to 2.5 ) . My Primary Care doctor here ,
told me not to worry about it . Then 3 months into my stay in America ,
I had my first attack of MS . The year later ( 2004 ) I was on very
high doses of oral prednisone for MS symptoms.Not only did my left hip
get destroyed as a result ( so that I now need a hip replcement ) but I
showed up to the Emergency room with Diabetic Ketoacedosis and a Blood
Glucose reading 8 times the normal . This was my diagnosis of Type 2
diabetes . I stayed in Intensive care in critical condition in a Los
Angeles hospital for 7 days . The doctors told me that if I had not
gone to the emergency room that day , I would have gone into a coma in
3 days and died 2 days later .
I am now wondering how my albumin went up from 3.5 to 43.5 gm/mmol in a
little under 3 years ( i.e. between December 2002 to August 2006 ) ?
Was this process accelerated by steroids ?
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