Originally Posted by
gilders
I'm due my monthly transplant clinic appointment next week, but due to COVID, it will now be a telephone appointment. Therefore I went for blood tests (nobody else waiting thankfully) and immediately left the hospital.
For those following my updates, you may recall that my last few blood tests have shown my kidney function drop from 40% to 38% to 37%. Although I said that I was not concerned of the drops so long as my function remained in the 35-40% range, I was more concerned about having 3 recurrent drops, however small.
Thankfully I can report that my kidney function jumped to 43%:thumbsup:
Unfortunately, one of my liver tests (ALT) has dramatically jumped far beyond healthy range (10-50) to 117. Another strange result is my blood glucose has dropped below the healthy range (3.5-7) to 3.1. Not greatly below range, but considering this is usually high in transplant patients, maybe it's a bit misleading and realistically much lower than it should be.
Overall I'm feeling very well and grateful to be over a recent virus, especially as I had COVID symptoms, but was refused a COVID test as only hospital patients are tested in the UK.