Are my kidney conditions normal?
Patient: Hi, I am Rl,/shra, Sex - M, Age-62.I had to get admitted with with the following symptons:-Fever with chills and rigor, Weakness, pain in feet, vomiting, inc frequency of urine.i am known case for DM type 2 patient since 1981. But after dignosis doc told me that your kidney  is 90% damaged and treated me as CKD patient.Some inv report is as follow:-HB on 16/10/11 is 7.3 and TLC is 25000 creatnine is 7.3HB on 25/10/11 is 8.0 and TLC is 9400 creatnine is 6.0On 25/10/11 doc relived me, but told me that you have to go for dialysis within 6 months.i dont understand, when all the reports is improving day by day then why doc told me so. Doctor: HiFrom the information given it seems that you have been admitted with kidney infection which can itself make the kidney function worse either temporarily or permanently. However the creatinine was 7.3 on admission which seems to be improving. Normally creatinine levels are generally less than 1.2 and it does not start to rise until atleast 50% of the kidney has been damaged. Hence your doctor has treated you as CKD patient. It is likely that your creatinine levels will fall further and you may or may not need dialysis in the future but ony continuous monitoring will tell us about the need for dialysis in the future. Let us keep our hopes alive that the creatinine levels will normalise.