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I'm a really bad patient and now freaking out.

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  • My4happykids
    My4happykids Posts: 124 Member
    edited June 2017
    @Bouddie Like neohdiver said GFR is a measurement of kidney function (above 60 is good), but if it was just a blood test you can't put much weight on it. The one you want to know is Creatinine you want this to be below 1.
    Just something you learn at an early age having Polycystic Kidney Disease. :)
  • Alaplum
    Alaplum Posts: 169 Member
    edited June 2017
    That's what I'd really like it to be able to maintain my diabetes at normal levels, and I love keto so it's under 20 for me at least for now, I might experiement when I hit maintenance but it will just be experimenting, if my bg starts spiking down go the carbs. I'm really glad to hear metformin can't make my bg go to low. I have worried most of my most recent bg tests have been aroun 4.6 to 4.8 even one hour post prandial. This morning my bg was 4.8. I wondered if I should go back and talk to the doc about maybe lowering. I'll leave it for now then.

    I did kind of expect my trigs to be lower but let's hope for next time. I'm not eating anything that should elevate them.
  • Alaplum
    Alaplum Posts: 169 Member
    My4happykids wrote: »
    @Bouddie Like neohdiver said GFR is a measurement of kidney function (above 60 is good), but if it was just a blood test you can't put much weight on it. The one you want to know is Creatinine you want this to be below 1.
    Just something you learn at an early age having Polycystic Kidney Disease. :)

    I have to say it's a little difficult figuring out the difference between how the US calculates and Canada, Mi creatinine serum was 84 and the healthy range was (40-100 umol/l) Maybe it's just a decimal place thing?
  • nvmomketo
    nvmomketo Posts: 12,019 Member
    Bouddie wrote: »
    That's what I'd really like it to be able to maintain my diabetes at normal levels, and I love keto so it's under 20 for me at least for now, I might experiement when I hit maintenance but it will just be experimenting, if my bg starts spiking down go the carbs. I'm really glad to hear metformin can't make my bg go to low. I have worried most of my most recent bg tests have been aroun 4.6 to 4.8 even one hour post prandial. This morning my bg was 4.8. I wondered if I should go back and talk to the doc about maybe lowering. I'll leave it for now then.

    I did kind of expect my trigs to be lower but let's hope for next time. I'm not eating anything that should elevate them.

    Those are ideal numbers. Congratulations!
  • neohdiver
    neohdiver Posts: 738 Member
    nvmomketo wrote: »
    Bouddie wrote: »
    I have worried most of my most recent bg tests have been aroun 4.6 to 4.8 even one hour post prandial. This morning my bg was 4.8. I wondered if I should go back and talk to the doc about maybe lowering. I'll leave it for now then.

    I did kind of expect my trigs to be lower but let's hope for next time. I'm not eating anything that should elevate them.

    Those are ideal numbers. Congratulations!

    Yup - exactly where they should be.
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