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With a family member in the hospital waiting on kidney transplant... my suggestion is do the test brother, better to know then not know. Ignorance isn’t bliss. This could change your life forever and trust me when I say that watching someone in the hospital on dialysis 4-5 times a week isn’t easy on family or the person suffering through it. mine is another vote for getting the bio done

Hello fellow lifters. I’m new to the forum. I’ve been lifting on and off for many years finally in a consistent routine. Anyways thanks for having me here. I’m always ready to learn and gather all the tips and tricks to improve my gains and also give my 2 cents where applicable.

I'm doing it, it's booked for Feb 6th. Might as well do it and hopefully I'm fine. I've had the same nephrologist for all the blood work and now for the biopsy he ran a full panel and I still have the form for bloodwork. Not sure how bad my numbers were or how good they are now, he'll never show them to me which makes me wonder what's actually going on. I'll still be doing blood work every 3 months regardless of the outcome of the biopsy. Have any of you had a boipsy or know someone who has? Just curious on how long to take it easy in the gym.

I second all of this. Reason being i went through this myself a couple years back. I had random bloodwork done and my creatinine was through the roof high. I went to see a nephrologist and he did the bloodwork again, also ordered a CT and ultrasound of my kidneys. Function of kidneys were excellent. However the creatinine was still high. not as bad for second round of blood panels but still high. I kept up on my bloodwork for approximately 3 months and eventually my creatinine went back to normal. Since then i've continued to get bloods done every 3 months on my own with a nephrology panel like rhyno said. All good now! However if the Doc is suggesting a biopsy, i'd definitely strongly consider it brother. Keep us posted

Check this thread out bro

About to go hit cardio, back and tris

Welcome brother! Great place to be! Enjoy

congrats to the both of you

Congrats @ElectricRocker Well deserved brother!!

Welcome back!

Congrats brother Well deserved!!! You make NL a better place

Congrats brother looking lean!! Come a long way was happy to see your journey and look forward to the next one!

Well I just wanted to congratulate @ElectricRocker For his promotion to moderator!!!! Keep up the great work for the board brother thank you!!

Welcome to NL enjoy!

Welcome!

Is there any risk to doing the biopsy? If only minor risks like usual stuff such as infections then I would do it to rule out the kidneys being the cause of high blood pressure. That being said, it is completely your decision and your health. Did he do all the kidney blood work? Creatinine, egfr, urea, etc? How did those come back?

Training is going great and I’m much happier the only time I’m depressed now is when I can’t get to the gym , wife is a lot happier too . I enjoy waking up in the morning now , is it sick that I enjoy the days I have to pin . Have to say thanks to my Doc Genetec for their spot on diagnoses

Congrats to all. Just want everyone to know that this board is all about opportunity. Many of these promotions are members who were not part of NM. everyone is equal in our eyes and whoever cares for the board truly will be rewarded. We are very thankful to everyone who is helping this board become better everyday.