Possible Flare!!! Yikes!!!

[Sangye]

Phil, I just noticed your question about homeopathy. i LOVE homeopathy but it is a very big no-no for Weggies. Especially the cell salts. They are way too powerful at stimulating the immune system and detoxifying the body.

[coffeelover]

GEEZ PHil! I hope you are feeling better soon. I take a few days away from the group and come back on to you scaring me!
In regards to dryness, I use a humidifier in my main rooms in the house. I keep mine running non stop on a low setting and have to fill it every night and now in this below zero dry yucky weather, twice a day. I also rinse my nose out and use vaseline or AYR to keep my nose lubricated.
Watch what you eat too...It seems if I eat too much salt in my diet, I dry out rather quickly. It is quite annoying when the mouth and nose get so dry. Sometimes I think that maybe I took my medicine incorrectly .....I don't always pay attention. ( I am a muti tasker)
Anyway...please Phil....demand that attention you so deserve.
I hope your employer is an understanding one. I am looking for a pt worker here??
Lisa

[pberggren1]

My Creatinine is 22 mg/L. Thank you Sangye and Lisa.

Lisa, what is AYR?

[onatreetop]

My creatinine is at 0.9 mg/dL according to the ER labs. Hope that helps you? The normal range here is 0.6 - 1.3 like sanyge said.

[Jack]

My creatinine is around 1.7 and I'm running on one transplanted kidney.

[elephant]

Hey Phil, you probably think I'm a real nut job. When I saw that your creatinine was 86, I thought wow that is really high and never in my life have seen this. My creatinine is 1.0. I was thinking the same thing as Sangye re: USA creatinine lab values. So I did some research on line and found creatinine in umol/L ranges for males. The creatinine range for male was 68-118 umol/L. I see that your creatinine is 22 mg/L, if that is true you already know that it is high. I am hoping it was your urea lab value, cause normal range is 18-21. Sorry for my confusion.

[pberggren1]

I think you meant to say that my CRP is 22 mg/L. My Urea os 5.9 mmol/L.

[Sangye]

Converting 22 mg/L to deciliters (dL), your Creatinine is 2.2. Higher than normal, but not by much. Your lab work should show the normal range.

[pberggren1]

No, it is my CRP that is 22 and my Creatinine that is 86.

[elephant]

If your creatinine is 2.2, hopefully it will go down with treatment with the wegeners medicine. Phil hope you see your Rheumy soon. Need to find a Kidney doctor too. Thanks for clearing that up Sangye. I guess I was thinking positive and didn't want Phil to have a high creatinine so I was so relieved to to see other creatinine values ( Umole/L). OOPPss